Hey hey hey — I’m from the other “one of the Carolinas” and my family tree branches quite well, thankyouverymuch. Not that we don’t have our share (and more) of idiots here as well, but don’t lump us in with SC.

Enjoy your break, I’m sure I can find something (someone) to amuse me somewhere and provide my daily dose of SIWOTI.

“While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.”

Yeah, because we all know marriage has never changed through the years.

That is one of my favorite movies ever. I think I’ll go home and try to find my copy of of it to watch again.

Looks like it’s not news to the mole any more: First “suspended indefinitely, with pay” then fired.

Damn it! Another keyboard ruined with a spit take.

Less Than Zero – Elvis Costello
Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello
All Star – Smash Mouth
Last Ride In – Green Day
Oasis – Amanda Palmer
Running Bear – Johnny Preston
Burning Down the House – Talking Heads
Peter Gunn Theme – The Blues Brothers Band
Lil’ Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Hitchin’ a Ride – Green Day

and one more to grow on:
Cleveland Rocks – Presidents of the United States of America

Well, I was wondering when all those Elvis Costello songs would start showing up…

I had that happen to me as well. “Sluggy Freelance” has had the same sort of “random archive glitch” (as they refer to it) going on for at least a year now — perhaps it’s spreading?

The thing I loved was seeing a blurb attributed to “Gianna Jessen, Abortion Survivor, National Speaker” (although in the trailer, she’s just “speaker”). Abortion survivor? Really? Her mom had an abortion that didn’t take, or she just got angry drunk one night and said, “I should have aborted you when I had the chance, you little shit” and hey, presto! abortion survivor?

“This court would not only have to stretch, it would have to abandon and completely overrule a lot of modern precedent..

(roll eyes) Yeah, because Bush v. Gore and Citizen’s United were based on tons of precedent — so much so that the former specifically stated it should never be used as precedent for any future ruling.

Why anyone takes the Supreme Court rulings as anything other than political partisan decisions anymore is beyond me.

Most of them don’t, actually. Rachel Maddow showed a poll last night that showed a majority of people (I forget the actual percentage) believe that the ACA SCOTUS decision will be decided along partisan lines, for partisan reasons.

She also showed poll results that show that when you ask people about “Obamacare” they’re against it, but when you ask them about the individual aspects of the bill they’re all for it, frequently by 3 to 1, even among Republicans/Tea Partiers. She said, “It’s almost like if you asked someone, ‘Would like you a pepperoni pizza?’ and they replied, ‘No way!’; but then you asked, ‘How about some tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni baked on a flat, round piece of bread?’ and they replied, ‘That sounds great!’”

I don’t follow sports, but having attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, any day Dook loses is cause for celebration as far as I’m concerned. If anybody wants me, I’ll be out on the porch, drinking and admiring how the world seems a slightly brighter place this evening.

Well, what the hell, I already exposed my lack of taste last week, why not do it again?

Be The One – The Ting Tings
Stuck in a Closet With Vanna White – “Weird Al” Yankovic
She – Green Day
Code Monkey – Jonathan Coulton
Hand in Hand – Elvis Costello
Coin-Operated Boy – The Dresden Dolls
Celebrity Skin – Hole
King of the Road – Roger Miller
How Soon Is Now – The Smiths
White Lightning – George Jones

Bonus:
Leaving on a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul and Mary

Dang! I take a day off from reading and I miss the birthday party! Serves me right. Well, belated birthday wishes to the lovely Mrs. T. My own wife will be celebrating, or perhaps more accurately bemoaning, her own 50th in a couple of months…

I usually don’t participate in this because I hate to expose my lack of taste in so public a fashion, but I’m bored so what the hell:

Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue – Allan Sherman(*)
Comin’ Home Baby – Mel Torme
Great DJ – The Ting Tings
Good Old Days – “Weird Al” Yankovic
672 – The Dresden Dolls
She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals
I Want Candy – The Strangeloves
Pretty Girls – Joe Jackson
Valley Girl – Frank Zappa
Platypus (I Hate You) – Green Day

…and if those weren’t evidence enough, #11:
Bad Habit – Offspring

* – I was really hoping to find a YouTube of this one, but the only ones are of other people singing it. Badly.

I knew a guy that had a 1MB disk platter from the 60s as a table top in his living room. It was about 3′ across and must have weighed 60lbs.

Dog knows I have little love for Howard Stern in general — and the whole style of morning “shock jock” shows he inspired — but yes, he says a lot of things in this clip you’d probably agree with. It’s worth listening to.

I liked his co-host’s point irt Rosie O’Donnell “It’s like as if the only jokes ever told about me were that I’m black. Is there nothing else about me that exists?”

Must be going around. My wife and I had a similar conversation this morning:
Her: “What day is it?”
Me: “Thursday.”
Her: “You’re kidding, right? ‘Cause I feel sure it’s only Wednesday.”
Me: “Nope, sorry. Thursday.”
Her: “Well, crap.”

“The term you want is callipygian, you cow.”

(Because I can’t let a good Girl Genius reference go by unsaid, even if no one is likely to see it.)

OK, that one made me literally laugh out loud. I’m giving you my vote for winning the intertubes today.