"Perhaps after 34 years it's time for us to confess we invented cello scrotum," she wrote with her husband John, who had signed the original letter, which was published in the BMJ Wednesday.
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Youtube Pope
The Catholic Church has launched their youtube channel, it is currently available in English, Italian, German and Spanish. For now it seems to just be a place where clips from CTV (the Vatican's television station) are added, but I'm hoping with time they get a little more sophisticated in using youtube and this crazy modern intarwebs thing. The Church tends to operate at a very leisurely pace, even by European standards, forget American standards, so I'm kind of surprised to see them move in this direction at this pace.
Looks like they don't have comments, which is just as well, given the average IQ of the youtube commenter.
Not-so-random question: Upstate NY Edition
Are there any Morons in Upstate NY? Like, say, in New York's 20th District around Saratoga Springs/Albany?
I'm trying to decide if I want to do something completely insane by moving up there to help Jim Tedisco's campaign in the special election to replace now-Sen. Gillibrand.
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Go for it. At the least, it'll make an interesting addition to your resume.
Posted by: Alice H at January 25, 2009 09:40 PM (jRtPb)
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You are joking, right? The moron population of the world hovers between 92 and 95%. Chances are very good that would be the same in upstate New York. But, I heard that is a conservative district. The word conservative doesn't really mean much anymore in regards to politicians though.
Posted by: Two Dogs at January 25, 2009 09:58 PM (/8olb)
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Well, John Murtagh (yes, that John Murtagh) replied to me on Twitter and said that John Faso had a better chance at winning the primary and the general than Tedisco did. I don't want to change my life so drastically just to lose in the primary.
I asked Karol if she had any thoughts on the potential GOP candidates. I'm waiting to hear back.
I'm a refugee from upstate NY, I've lived in Albany and Schenectady more than once, as well as downstate and in lovely Utica. (I call it lovely Utica because in my head I use a different adjective that starts with "fucking" and ends with "!").
I wouldn't do it if I were you unless you already have a good job besides working for a GOP politician who has no chance of winning. That's not a conservative district.
NY taxed businesses out of the state so they did what politicians always do when revenue goes down, increase taxes. Then, when revenue went down farther, they raised taxes again. Naturally, NY voters did what voters always do when politicians screw things up, re-elected them.
The town I grew up in, about 50 miles south of Albany, Kingston, had maybe 25,000 people and the IBM just outside of town in a "suburb" employed around 5,000 and various businesses that supplied IBM with stuff were in the area too. Naturally, they taxed the crap out of them so they left. Kingston went from high-paying IBM jobs to mall jobs.
Cuomo finally got too ridiculous so they elected Pataki, who then turned into Cuomo-lite in about 2-3 years.
GOP and Dems are indistinguishable except in the Albany Times Useless newspaper. Seriously, read the Albany Times Union. Just make sure you either have something you can throw or keep everything out of your reach. I would suggest you tie your hands behind your back before reading that. Spitzer used the State Police to go after a Republican, the Times Useless never mentioned that, they regularly mentioned some lies that Spitzer put out about him though.
Albany has the state government and lots of state-wide offices (The SUNY offices are in Albany for instance), so they're less hit than the rest of the state, but it's still pretty ugly there.
Plus, IMO, upstate NY has a very large population who hate life and want you to hate life too, they're the ones who didn't have the brains or gumption to get out of Dodge or even stop voting for the party that destroyed what was once one of the great industrial states in our nation.
I used to get all excited to go visit but after a couple years I started to wonder why I was getting excited. Now? I dread it.
Except for August, then Saratoga is open for thoroughbreds. That's a fun place. They have a nice are with lots of picnic tables and they let you bring your own coolers and whatnot.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 28, 2009 02:08 PM (ThMnZ)
Alcohol helps perpetuate the illusion of bedroom proficiency
I never realized they actually have a name for it - brewer's droop.
Australian researchers have made the surprise discovery that consuming alcohol actually improves men's performance in the bedroom. ... In a study of 1580 Australian men, drinkers reported up to 30 per cent fewer problems than teetotallers.
Emphasis mine. I'm going to guess that at least a few of the readers here have experienced the guy who doesn't realize that he tried stuffing the marshmallow into the piggybank and then passed out cold on top of you, limp as a month-old carrot. And then tries to act in the morning like he gave you the night of your life and you should be paying him. But I'm not bitter, really.
Dead or alive, you're coming with me
There's no way this could go wrong...for instance, at the top of an escalator.
Japanese researchers in Tokyo on Wednesday unveiled a robotic mall cop, a two-foot-high security guard on wheels that can track down bad guys running amok on commercial property and disable them with a 'Spider-Man' like web.
Oh, wait, they only have single-story malls in Japan, don't they?
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They don't really have malls per-se (at least not in Tokyo). They have multi-story department stores of all sorts, but the 'malls' are city-style shopping areas.
Posted by: Hermit Dave at January 24, 2009 11:06 AM (WhFvm)
True, but they do, indeed, have lots of escalators in those department stores--oh to be a professional litigant in Japan should this thing get out of the lab!
(Before anyone says Japanese courts aren't as ridiculous as our own, keep in mind that a woman got off for sexual harassment/stalking because she 'proved' that her breasts were too big to squeeze through the opening she's alledged to have used--cause, ya know, breasts--even the aftermarket variety--are known for their rock-like, sharp-edged, firmness.)
Posted by: ECM at January 24, 2009 05:56 PM (q3V+C)
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Spider-bot, Spider-bot Does whatever a Spider-bot does. . .
Posted by: MCPO Airdale at January 24, 2009 08:42 PM (PFWVs)
Who knew that the Mumbai slums had an advocacy group?Slumdog Millionaire was excellent. I'm glad to see that it was nominated for a ton of Oscars today. It's one of those rare occasions where I want a movie to win because it's good, not just because all the other nominees are so bad.
But the rags-to-riches tale is unacceptable to some because, wait for it, the name "slumdog" is insulting:
Several dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film
"Slumdog Millionaire" on Thursday, calling the film's title insulting.
[...]
"I am poor, but don't call me slumdog," said Rekha Dhamji, 18, one
of about two dozen slum residents who protested outside the home of one
of the movie's actors, Anil Kapoor.
"I don't want to be referred to as a dog," she said.
Other protesters held up banners reading "Poverty For Sale," and "I am not a dog." One of them carried a puppy.
Yawn.
Perhaps if anyone in India had seen the film (it's not released there until tomorrow), they would know that the only people who call the main character a slumdog aren't exactly "nice" characters. Or maybe they'd appreciate that one of the main themes of the film is the value of people who do grow up in the slums.
And seriously..."poverty for sale"? No one wants to buy poverty, dummy.
Some non-coronation freakage
Since US Airways refuses to confirm that it's the same airplane, I'm going to have to make a possibly life-saving decision: I'm never ever flying US Airways from LaGuardia to Charlotte, ever ever ever.
This is my impression of the Right Wing if we were as immature, hypocritical, viscious and devoid of irony and humor as the left has been for the last 8 years:
OBAMA IS FUCKING HITLER!!!! HE'S A BLOODTHIRSTY KILLER AND HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND PUT IN PRISON AND WHILE I DON'T SUPPORT THE ASSASSINATION OF OBAMA THERE SHOULD STILL BE A PLAY MADE THAT BASICALLY ENDORSES THAT ACT AND ALL THE CRITICS SHOULD JERK OFF PUBLICLY AT HOW AWESOME IT IS AND EVERY THING OBAMA DOES IS EVIL OR STUPID OR DIABOLICAL BUT STILL FUCKING STUPID EVEN THOUGH IT IS CLEVER AND AMERICA IS EVIL BECAUSE THAT CHIMPY MONKEY IS IN CHARGE AND EVERYONE HATES US AND THEY SHOULD AND I HOPE WE FAIL OVER AND OVER AT EVERYTHING WE ATTEMPT AND WE SHOULD BURN THE FLAG BUT DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM BECAUSE DISSENT BY DEFINITION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM BECAUSE SOMEBODY FAMOUS SAID THAT AND THAT MAKES IT TRUE UNLESS THE FAMOUS PERSON IS A DEMO-RAT IN WHICH CASE IT IS A VILE LIE EVEN IF THEY BELIEVED IT AT THE TIME BECAUSE ONLY THE OTHER TEAM LIES AND IF YOU QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM IT PROVES YOU ARE UNPATRIOTIC LEAVING ASIDE THE UTTER RETARDEDNESS THAT IS MY FLAG-BURNING ASS QUESTIONING YOUR PATRIOTISM WHILE DEMANDING YOU APOLOGIZE FOR EVEN THE SLIGHTEST INSINUATION THAT MAYBE MY CONSTANT ROOTING FOR THE OTHER TEAM AND INABILITY TO SAY ANYTHING NICE ABOUT AMERICA COULD EVEN REPRESENT A TINY SMIDGE OF NON-PATRIOTIC BEHAVIOR YOU FASCIST PIECE OF SHIT WARMONGERING MURDERING BABY-HATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111*
* - God I hate this shit. By all accounts we should just constantly attempt to ruin Obama's life but, being mature, we just... can't get upset about the trivial stupid bullshit the left managed to stay permanently enraged about for 8 years. I think they just have our number on the stupid, childish rage angle and I'm not sure how we counter that advantage.
Beyond that, I do feel a bit better having ranted.
The difference between the politically mature and immature is simple to sum up:
Obama is my president, and I will not root against America because I don't like him or his policies. I'll be happy to give him credit for the things I believe he gets right (if any), and I'll bash his big-spending redistributionism because I believe it's wrong.
This 'not my President, not in my name' crap is immature and destructive and I won't participate in it. On the other hand, a good venting rant is always appreciated.
Posted by: Hermit Dave at January 19, 2009 03:24 PM (WhFvm)
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As an Australian, I'm keeping a file on my computer and I will keep a record of everything that President Obama says and what actions he takes.
In 2012 I will gladly post this file to anybody who needs a refresher on what the last four years were like
Posted by: johnnosk at January 19, 2009 04:13 PM (7zvFL)
If I hear one more goddamned thing about this inaugeration I'm going to lose my fucking mind. If it weren't for the recent posts featuring scantily clad hot chicks in thigh-highs I might have already lost it.
I'm so fucking tired of these people acting like their fucking war agaisnt America for the last 8 years didn't happen while they expect us all to just smile and accept Obama's super-fucking-awesomeness. They'd say "well, Bush sucked and Obama is great, that's why its different." But it isn't different. 47% of America doesn't like Obama just as much as their 47% didn't like Bush when he was elected. It is exactly fucking the same.
Anyway, fuck 'em. I wrote a REALLY LONG ALL-CAPS INSANE RANT HERE written as if I was just as hysterical and retarded as your average lefty but it got deleted when a sidling coworker surprised me into pushing backspace without focus on the form.
I'll exact my revenge soon. If there is a lot of demand for my "impression" of the left for the last 8 years as it applies to Obama, I may add it later.
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Okay, posts with hot chicks in thigh highs - I'm on it. I'm presuming holding weaponry is a bonus.
Tell you what, if you post your insane rant about that, I'll post my rant about how those who claim to speak for the gay community don't speak for me. I kind of use the f word a kind of a lot. Try not to look so surprised.
Posted by: alexthechick at January 19, 2009 01:17 PM (SHHaV)
I recall a picture you posted of a girl in thigh-highs a while back that tickled my fancy. Speculation was that it was you. Rumors and heresay dominate the comments at this blog, however.
The F word? Bestill my beating heart.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 19, 2009 02:16 PM (83gRI)
Posted by: alexthechick at January 18, 2009 09:47 PM (GY1/+)
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Huh, I totally thought that was going to be a spider.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 18, 2009 09:51 PM (D2cBI)
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By the looks of things, there's a spider metropolis lurking somewhere within that thing from which fevered nightmares are spun (ya know, like spiders spinning webs, yuck, yuck).
Posted by: ECM at January 18, 2009 10:07 PM (q3V+C)
Bruce Campbell + Mummy = Wicked cool
I remember seeing this movie four years ago when it first came out, and I was just reminded of its existence/awesomeness. Bruce Campbell thinks he's Elvis. Ossie Davis thinks he's JFK. Can their powers combined defeat a mummy? Well, watch Bubba Ho-tep and find out.
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True Boy George is old, but this is what happens when you are old and well off. I'll be a fat ugly (as though I'm not already) mofaku were I wealthy enough to not have to ever make a bad song again.
Meanwhile, everyone ignores Gavin's attendance to gay nightclubs and orgies that George mentions in his book.
BTW, gavin is Gwen steffani's husband.
Posted by: wickedpinto at January 16, 2009 02:45 AM (ul7te)
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Gwen Stefani is a beard? That's... that's just the saddest waste of...
I'll be in my bunk, imagining a frustrated, lonely Gwen.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at January 16, 2009 11:42 AM (JSO4h)
Too much fun to save for FridayCreate Your Own Superhero, courtesy of Marvel Kids. You can thank me now for your lack of productivity for the rest of the week.
