Hi. I’m back and, no, I didn’t bring presents.

Oh, yes you did; this post is truly a gift.

And now, a haiku for George Tierney, jr. of Greenville, South Carolina:

The potty-mouth schmuck
tweeted insults to Ms. Fluke
George: $h!t out of luck!

I went over and read Alex Pareene’s entire piece. I can report that it was worth the time, provided that you accept the proposition that wasting time laughing at the absurdity that is Jonah Goldberg is a worthwhile way to spend one’s time. (/style parody)

I especially enjoyed this Goldberg quote:

Ultimately slippery slope arguments are a mixed bag. They are useful as a way to reinforce good dogma, but they are also used to reinforce bad dogma. Similarly they can scare us away from bad policies and good policies alike. There are good slippery slope arguments and bad ones for good ends and bad ends.

It sounds very much like one of the history reports out of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Well, if we are going to discontinue entire fields of study and academic research based on dissertation titles, you can stick a fork in Mechanical Engineering (it’s done!) based on my dissertation title alone.

Mr. Zappa has the answer:

Well, the toilet went crazy
Yesterday afternoon
The plumber he says
“Never flush a lampoon!”
This great information
Cost me half a week’s pay
And the toilet blew up
Later on the next day ay-eee-ay
Blew up the next day WOO-OOO

Went to see Troubador, TX (special live show outdoors in the park) yesterday evening … found the Cowboy Junkies 5-CD boxed set of “The Nomad Series” waiting for me in the mailbox this evening when I got home … not a bad couple of evenings!!

If Jesus were alive today he would have nailed himself to the cross.

… driving in the spikes by slamming them with his forehead, no doubt

“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”

he’s on the lamb

wait, wait, do you mean he’s on the lam as in “running from the law” or (as you wrote it “I was just helping that sheep through the fence”? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

Aha! Undoubtedly someone stashed it in the Room of Requirement!

When I saw the title of this post, I thought maybe it had something to do with Jack Lord. Obviously I was mistaken.

Having recently (last November) passed the half-century mark myself … well, let me just wish a “Happy Birthday” to Mrs. TBogg. And TBogg, you are indeed a lucky man. My own Mrs. Cat will reach said milestone in just under two months, so here’s to hoping the occasion is passed with grace and joy rather than “Oh Dog!! I’m OLD!!!!”

I guess I missed the opportunity (in terms of timeliness, anyway) for the “shorter” Dana Loesch:

“Void where prohibited”

new policy against making grants to groups under federal or state investigation

It strikes me that one of the things that may put a lot of people off with this “under investigation” fiction (totally aside from the fact that it was an obvious and very lame attempt to cover the actual motive) is the implied conflation of “under investigation” with “almost assuredly guilty of wrongdoing”. I think it is certainly right to be cautious with groups that are under investigation for serious misdeeds – say, for instance, pretty nearly the entire mortgage industry from the robo-signing frauds – but Cliffy Stearns’s “investigation” is such an obviously bullshit politically-motivated witch-hunt that the “under investigation” nonsense is actually offensive to many people’s sense of fair play.

But this is merely a minor side issue to the fact that most of the SGK leadership have revealed themselves to be flaming assholes on the scale of the Kuwaiti oil well fires from Gulf War 1.

Not even a Fawn Hall to help, but, you know … no uniforms and spy stuff, so nevermind.

Now it’s pictures like that that really make me miss the hover tags on the photos …

Who had Gingrich in the pool?

This caused me to recall the scene from “Caddyshack” …

TD

Tim Tebow fumbled. Cliff Avril recovered fumble and returned for 24 yards (Jason Hanson made PAT)

31 – 3

An ass by any other name would shake as sweetly. Or something. Too.

So I followed TBogg’s link to the Madison Chubbing website and from there to the Purple Eagle Entertainment site, to find out that the latter is a”subsidiary of Terabit Media Corporation“. Where I found this:

WHAT’S NEW

Terabit Media Corporation has formally launched its first project – a new rock band best described as a conservative version of Rage Against The Machine. The band, Madison Rising, named in honor of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States and a key author of the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and The Federalist Papers, provides guitar-centric, pro-American rock music to a market devoid of quality content. The band’s first single – Soldiers of America – will be released on September 1, 2011 and the album itself will be available on September 30th.

A “conservative version of Rage Against the Machine”???!! I just … words fail … what is there to say to that?

Of course, providing “rock music to a market devoid of quality content” is hilariously and no doubt unintentionally accurate when you consider that particular market.

If you have ever asked yourself “where do they find people to do this kind of schlock?” I think here is one possible source. I see this advertised on a billboard not far from where I live here in the North Dallas suburbs.

For those who won’t get out of the boat for this one (can’t say as I blame you) the article linked above ends as follows:

Tebow should have been drafted as a fourth or fifth round quarterback, and then nobody would be talking about whether Tebow should start or why his development has gone so slowly.

The Broncos need to go ahead and trade the guy before the other 31 NFL teams realize he is not worth any type of compensation.

Interestingly enough, the same paper at least carries a contrary opinion …

… but where in the world is Fort Hays State University anyway?? And perhaps more to the point, who really cares?