This is my favorite comic on the web: http://xkcd.com/290
The whole xkcd site is very good. Well, nerdy good. I guess I should qualify a bit.
Here's today's xkcd too: http://xkcd.com/430
It's long and sweet.

QOTD:

"I have made a dramatic shift into sales."
- William T Krieger... my favorite euphemism for getting divorced

cactus peace... yow, bill

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QOTD:

"Avoid Contamination. Wash your hands."
- Sign in the bathroom at the Naperville library

Oh yeah, and here's another good one you can find at any number of shops in the area:


Sigh.

I wonder if we'll look back at this is an era of prohibition and foolishness.
Until then, wash your hands and rat out any smokers within 15 feet of you.
he he... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."
- Barack Obama

It sounds like Obama has hired Jimmy Carter's speech writer. He he.

An anecdotal note... on the internet dating site www.plentyoffish.com (POF), I've noticed 3-4 girls now who write in their profile that any prospective fishies (re. "dates") must agree with their belief in global warming. I think I'm going to start collecting these, actually. It's engrossing. Here's an example:

I like to listen to classic rock. I love to go to the movies. Fargo, The Departed, and Little Big Man are some of my favorites. Drinking in bars is not my scene but, I do love a glass red wine while sitting under the stars. I'm not looking for a roommate I just want someone to spend some down time with. I believe in treating other people with respect. I have no tolerance for prejudice or bullies. That's probably why I work where I do. I also have a great respect for this planet so if your a Republican who thinks global warming is a hoax or that there is nothing we can do about it please don't write. All we would end up doing is debating and I don't think that would be a fun date. I am interested in someone who is also a parent. My kids are the biggest influence in my life. I don't want to bore someone if I spend time talking about the ups and downs of parenthood.
- online dating profile POF user "newreign" (emphasis is mine)

BTW, "newreign" is 41 and not bad-looking.

Anyway, you search through these profiles and you don't see, "Oh, and you have to be Christian or Jewish or black or white or whatever"... no, you've got to believe in the green religion and I won't tolerate any discussion over the matter. Oh, and your radio better be locked in to NPR as well. He he again.

Can you imagine... now sweet-talking a girl includes a whole global warming component: "Yeah, sure baby, it's getting warmer and warmer... let me help you with that shirt." Yikes, was that too cynical? Hey, it was better (and cleaner) than my curly light bulb joke.

One of global warming's own broke bad and announced his study predicting that warmer temperatures will actually reduce hurricanes in the future: Hurricanes are not caused by global warming. Now mind you, I think this guy's positive prediction is as full of crap as the negative ones. It's just funny. That's all.
light bulb... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

Yesterday the feds declared polar bears an "endangered species".
QOTD:

Although the global population of polar bears has grown from a low of about 12,000 in the late 1960's to approximately 25,000 today, Mr. Kemperthorne [Interior Secretary] said government scientists had advised him that computer modeling projects "a significant population decline" by the year 2050.
- WSJ, May 15, 2008

Two things:

1. This is a wonderful case study of government at work. What more can you say. Polar bears are declared endangered... at the zenith of their population.
2. This shows the power of images. Al Gore's polar bear imagery in "Inconvenient Truth", though not real, impacted people emotionally. Case closed.
   

Of course, this opens the way for more global warming shenanigans (ala ethanol subsidies and carbon offsets) because industry can't harm endangered species. Get it? And the remedy? I'm betting on increased taxes and regulation. Shocker!
most terrifying film... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD:

"Our greatest opportunity for service to the city and its people is to strengthen our inner-city Catholic schools. They offer a first-class education for both Catholics and non-Catholics and serve as anchors within their neighborhoods. We now seek support to help us do an even better job of preparing Chicago's young men and women for a productive future."
- Cardinal Bernadin, circa 1985 in his introduction of the Big Shoulders Fund

I'm part of the Big Shoulders Fund mafia... well, sort of. I'm a donor.
It's a great idea as a surrogate to school choice and is well organized:

• Small, decentralized approach
• Endowment pays for administration... donor money goes straight to schools
• Donors work directly with schools
  

My favorite school is St Ethelreda School on the south side.
eagle pride... yow, bill

Labels: qotd

QOTD:

“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated. And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”
- Al Gore, couple days after the Myanmar tsumani

QOTD2:
"He'd sell cancer if they paid him."
- Moz Krieger, of Ed McMahon, I believe

hot hot hot... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD:

"He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Beneath his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be..."
- Woody Allen, "Manhattan"

Anyway, 2 easy movie reviews:

• Iron Man, 4 bill-stars (out of 5) - great guy fun and action. No more, no less. Oh wait, Gwyneth in red hair and chest freckles ablaze... that was better than your standard fare. I stand corrected. Also, the ending could have been better.
  
• Cloverfield, 2 bill-stars - little fun and little action. This is a 1-star movie that doubled its review when the monster ate the hand-held camera guy. That said, I have to also disclaim my review. No 40-something can stomach that hand-held camera shit, and if I were an angry guy, then I would have started counting the number of times I heard 20-somethings scream "Oh my god!". But I'm a nice, happy (old) guy, so I just fast-forwarded through most of it.
  

I yearn for some real cranky Hollywood bugs after Cloverfield. So I think I'll pop in some Starship Troopers. Yeah, that's it.
oh my god... yow, bill

PS - Oh my god again!

Labels: 2stars, 4stars, movies, qotd

QOTD

"He'd be a good manikin, I think... Seth McClung"
- Len Casper, Cub broadcaster last night

The best part is that Lenny never explained what the heck he was talking about. It was just a weird throwaway comment in the middle of the game (a 19-5 Cub blowout, BTW). Seth McClung holds a near and dear place in my heart... he could be the worst fantasy baseball pick I've ever made. Hey, he was a SP/RP who had a shot as closer in Tampa Bay. Cut me some slack... he he!

And riddle me this, batman... have you ever seen these two knuckleheads together in the same place at the same time?
On the left, that's former Saddam mouthpiece Tariq Aziz. On the right is Barry O'Bama's pastor Rev. Wright. Now, Wright's got much nicer digs that Aziz, but Aziz has still logged way more time on Nightline that Rev. Wright. We'll see how that goes though.

Speaking of Rev Wright, here's an O'Bama QOTD:

"But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century, when he equates the United States wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today."
- Barack Obama, on his pastor Rev. Wright

OK. Good. Barry held onto the guy until it cost too much, and then he launched him. Politics 101, right? I'm still waiting for Barry to do one, single, solitary thing that identifies him as something other than yet another flavor-of-the-month politician. And no, being more charismatic and better looking than Hillary doesn't qualify. Yikes!
cub win... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd, sports