It's very smiley for the good kid today.
Go!

1. Earf Hour or something
I considered posting something on the Earth Day or Earth Hour or whatever silliness. But I decided to pass. Too silly. If you're salvation is turning your lights off for an hour, I don't have much here for you.

2. This post
This smashed its way into the bubble and prompted me to post.
Simultaneously silly and disturbing, Bill Ayers is scheduled to speak at Naperville North?
Ayers Visit Revisited

Man, that sucks.
I hope Naperville North wakes up and realizes the seemingly obvious... you don't have to invite into your school someone who unrepentantly bombed this country.

But these days, the obvious seems so elusive.
Hey Naper North, this quote's for you.

QOTD
"I don't regret setting bombs... I feel we didn't do enough."
- Bill Ayers, shithead
3. Notre Dame
I hesitate to attempt an actual overt attempt at humor, as opposed to my usual "funny looking". Alas, perhaps these times make such a thing inevitable. I don't know. Anyway, here goes...

President Obama is scheduled to do the commencement thing at Notre Dame.
Here's his Top 5 list "Things I'm doing as President" for his speech:
  1. Reduce the charitable tax deduction... like money that goes to this university
  2. "Invest" $100B more in public education... rather than school choice
  3. Drone-bombing the crap out of Pakistan... wasn't Notre Dame actively anti-war/Iraq?
  4. Public funding and supply of embryos for stem cell research... rather than private sources
  5. Public funding of abortions... here and abroad!
Hey Notre Dame, go "all in" and invite Bill Ayers to join President Obama. Why not?

4. Obama Hedging
Have you experienced this in person... the Obama hedge?
Anyone criticizing President Obama in public always hedges their comment with "Oh, but he's a great guy" or "Oh, but his kids" or "Oh, but Michelle's shapely arms", etc.

I heard someone (a priest actually) briefly criticize President Obama speaking at Notre Dame, and that was followed by a much longer, fumbling hedge of how great a guy President Obama really was, despite the orthogonal value systems.

Heck, I'm a big faker because I'm hedging right now. I have a funny anti-Obama joke, but I'm not going to... ah, what the hell.
Lady at confession: "Father, I have to confess... I hate the current administration."
Priest: "I know what you mean."
I hate the word "hate", but that's pretty funny. And it's not really a joke; it actually happened.

5. Wrap
Darkest before the dawn? Even here in beautiful Naperville?
We shall see. Congressional elections in 2010.
smiling... yow, bill

PS - One last rant and then a reprieve... I watched the Nickelodeon Kids Award show Saturday night. One of the featured bands was the soft-porn "Pussycat Dolls". They trotted their belly shirts out there in front of a throng of 12 year-olds and sang something about somebody pushing something in somewhere. Why? Who makes these idiotic decisions?

PPS - The private/public dichotomy grows and grows... seems like a great chasm. All is well in Bill's bubble, changing like a mother, but "feeling stronger every day" or some close approximation. And man, I've been smiling a 10,000 question smile (yeah, that's me below) since last night. He he!

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