If the President is so serious about the war on terror, why doesn't he hunt down and capture Barack Obama before he strikes again. It's time for a change America. That's why I'm voting for Osama in 2008.This episode had it all: Annie; swastikas; and moralistic protesters with unusual sentiments.This show is really starting to hit its stride when even Jenna's story rocks.
Jenna Maroney
I'm shocked, I tell ya. My pal, good ol' trusty, honest, reliable Sen. Joe Lieberman might have lied?!?
Lieberman calls jumping to the Republican side, and tilting the Senate, "a remote possibility," which means there's at least a chance of that. Time seems to push Lieberman in this direction, as the article concludes: "Lieberman's GOP flirtation has its risks--and a time limit....The longer he waits to capitalize on his moment, the greater the danger that he'll be tagged as one of those politicians for whom having power is more important than using it."Joe? Care more about power than anything else? Not my buddy Joe.
He's only 19. He's only 19. He's only 19. I'll just sit over here and keep repeating that to myself.
Querrey hits with Andy Roddick, the top seed in San Jose this week, and has beaten the No. 4 player in a practice match. He's also beaten former No. 1 Pete Sampras during practice and has worked with Jimmy Connors.
“I guess it's cool to meet Connors but Roddick is really my idol,” Querrey said. “He's more my age. I didn't know Connors held the record for being No. 1 so many weeks in a row.”
Querrey also said that beating Sampras “wasn't that cool because he hasn't played in five years. I was more excited beating Andy.”
I'm not fond of most of the people where I work. In fact, I only like two of the ~200 people here and tolerate about a half-dozen more. Then, there are the few I actively despise. It's a special kind of person who can engender that much bile in me, but sadly not a rare kind of person. And I've got one of these working directly with me!
We hired a ridiculously junior engineer last year when our team was larger. She was to be the responsibility of a junior-mid who would in turn be mine. Turns out that while his skills were mid, his maturity was definitely junior: he bailed for a job where he can play with Ruby and I was left with the idiot. And she is an idiot, let there be no doubts.
Her "solution" to most of her problems is to have me bounce our JMS server. It doesn't solve any problems, but it seems to assuage her momentarily. A week or two ago, she came to me and my friend - flustered, frazzled, upset - unable to understand why her changes weren't being reflected in an app she was testing. She'd set breakpoints and they'd be skipped by the debugger, the code just kept behaving the same no matter what. She was modifying a file in a different application.
This is my life here in the Valley of the Sun.
This must be the week for unexpected nerd shoutouts. First on 30 Rock, Kenneth was tempted by a fellow page named Grace Park. Honestly, I thought she was a bit robotic.
Then tonight on Psych, the mystery of the week is about a missing girl girl who's been attacked named Deanna Sirtis.
Perhaps we should rattle fewer sabres in the direction of Tehran and pay more attention to the former Soviet Bloc.
Reason #217 why the old should just shuffle off this mortal coil:
The children of Troon will continue to attend nearby schools. And thanks to a loophole in Arizona law, the grown-ups of Troon will continue to avoid paying property taxes in those districts, which makes officials in the districts less than mirthful.
That's awesome. Keep your tax money so you can line your coffin; hopefully you'll be getting in it real soon now!
Patrick Flynn - who completely by coincidence is president of a homeowners association in unincorporated Troon - led the move to create a school district without schools (though there are children) in order to save a few hundred dollars a year. Good for him. And fuck those young people moving into his town with their children. He got his, now they can get theirs.
One can only hope some poorly educated youngin' jacks his car one day because a decent public education wasn't available. Or better still, maybe he'll just keel over on the golf course. Then I would laugh and laugh and laugh.
Glenn Marcus hides his whips in his long boxes.
Speaking in a husky monotone, Jodi described the whippings, mutilations and torture she said she received at the hands of Marcus, who sold comic books and lived with his parents on Long Island.
I've tried, oh how I've tried. I'm supposed to like The Office, but it just doesn't make me laugh. Perhaps it's my pedestrian tastes. Anyway, I've got to try at least one more time. Joss Whedon directed this week's episode. Once more, into the fire. Maybe someone will die!
Sounds like my favorite writer controls himself on the track (and has as much skill) as well as he does at the poker table. He's "had to retire from basketball" unfortunately. I'm sure that used to be a thing of great beauty.
Awesome. I'm a fan of two college bball teams, both of which are having off seasons. My Huskies (which I hated when I was at UConn because I was that kind of teenager) are too young to attract the attention of a Catholic Priest and play with the cohesiveness of the Cavs with BronBron on the floor. The Zags are just...off. I can't put my finger on it.
Oh, maybe they've got the munchies.
On the plus side, Josh can transfer to Storrs when Mark Few cuts him. He's got UConn-Character.
Update: This is a much better photo. Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis after being released from Spokane County Jail.
Great counterpoint to the last post, where little cowards are talking smack about John Amaechi and vandalizing his wiki entry (probably because they covet his man-flesh themselves). In San Francisco, Elie Wiesel was grabbed and dragged out of an elevator before the assailant ran away. AP is reporting that someone took responsibility for the action on an anti-semitic website.
I'll say this for the cowards: they're consistent. Pick on the weak and avoid the strong.
Here's a challenge to the little fuck in SF: come on down to PHX and try to drag me out of an elevator. I won't scream for help like Wiesel did. I'll be very, very quiet. I swear. You won't hear a thing.
I wanted to wait a few days before saying anything about this week's big story about teh gays in the NBA. At first, I was surprised by his announcement, but then he's always been a bit of a surprise. I mean, here you have a man born in 1908 who died in '93 and he still managed to average 6.2 points and 2.6 boards over his career. Actually, at 6'10", those numbers are probably best explained by being dead.
Anyway, I had to look on imdb to find it, but sure enough...it was his character Mortimer Duke who believed in genetics more than environment.
Joking aside, John Amaechi's wikipedia entry is really busy right now. Scumbags come in and vandalize it - when I went a few minutes ago it had a section titled "faggot" - and then a decent human being comes and repairs it. Shame we can't track down the physical locations of the vandals' IPs and "have a little talk" about. While I won't go so far as to call Amaechi a hero for coming out after he's retired (and with a book to peddle,) it's still a courageous stand considering the rampant homophobia of the immature, sheltered kids who play ball. Perhaps the little pussies mocking him would like to do it to his face. I'll even get them a stepstool so they can look straight into his eyes before they shit themselves in fear.
For the uber-geeks, Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys has been picked up by Dynamite Entertainment. It is a dark - sick might be a better word - take on the Costumes. DC dropped it from its Wildstorm imprint last month, presumably because it was hitting a little too close to home in its depiction of The Seven. I guess a drunken WW and fascist Supes were too much for them to take. Vicki Victim? That's alright. But sully the reputations of their franchises? No, thank you.
