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So that’s where the logo came from

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Aug 242008

All right, so regular readers know I’m no big fan of the Olympics in general, and that I’m thoroughly disgusted with their presence in Red China. I’ve beaten it to bits.

I’ll smack the carcass one last time, because this was (say it with me) too good not to share.

Source: MyConfinedSpace. Hat tip: Advertising is Good for You.

Obama selects 35-year Senate veteran for “change”

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Aug 232008

Apparently finding him an articulate, bright, clean, and nice-looking enough African-American, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware has agreed to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1973, and is a long-time member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Judiciary Committee, having chaired them both as well. He has run for president twice.

Exactly how all of this fits into Obama’s relentless narrative of “change” is left as an exercise for the reader.

Actually I figured Obama would pick a stodgy old white guy for political breadth, so it’s not particularly surprising from that perspective. However, as a consumer of political theater, I am pleased that he selected one of the more entertaining stodgy old white guys out there. Biden’s a loose cannon.

Accepting the slot Saturday, Biden began, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” Ha ha! No, he didn’t really say that. But hey, maybe he’ll write on his hand for the VP debate!

Oh shit

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Aug 222008

Me just now, hearing strange noises: “Nathan, what are you doing?”

Nathan, from the bathroom: “An experiment.”

Honorable soldier converts to religion of Pakistani wife; becomes TERRORIST

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Aug 222008

See this guy? He served honorably in the U.S. military for 13 years. Now, he works as a pilot for a regional airline.

Except he may lose his job in a month or so, because it seems he’s on a terror watch list. He must clear his name to keep his job, and he’s been given no real direction on what he must do to accomplish such.

Oh, and I must mention something else: he’s a convert to Islam. His wife is from Pakistan, and she wears one of those goddam rags on her head. Worse, she sells books and DVDs and shit about Islam.

So, clearly, they can’t fly. Who the hell knows what they might start?

What has happened to my fucking country?

Thursday miscellanea #3

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Aug 212008

One of our soccer parents this time around is an outgoing and charismatic speech therapist. I spent some time talking with her at practice tonight. I had a moderate stutter—and by moderate, I mean it was always a nuisance and occasionally debilitating—until the sixth grade or so, and speech therapy made a major difference. It recurs once in a while, generally when I’m tired, but I couldn’t imagine living my life today speaking the way I did when I was ten years old. God bless speech therapists.
College football kickoff is less than a week away. I’ve done a good job not thinking about it to this point, but now I’m excited. Bring it. Love it!
I’ve been starved for another good Star Wars game, and this looks like it could be it. Now, do I want the superior graphics of the Xbox 360 version, or what is sure to be nifty lightsaber remote action on the Wii? Perhaps I’ll simply try to forget it’s coming out. I’m damned sure not playing the demo. (What I really want is KOTOR III—a sequel to this.)
Folks, dig: you do not have the right to not be offended. In a healthy society, even the most well-adjusted denizen shall occasionally encounter something which pisses him/her off. If you find that it’s you at some point, then the First Amendment works both ways, and by all means, fire away. But calls for the silencing of whatever got your hackles up are ridiculous.
My last grandparent, my mother’s mother, died in January 2003. She left secrets—truths and circumstances that Jenny and I only discovered going through her effects after her death. They’re not things I can share, but they’re things I wish we had known when she was alive, and I’ve questioned her motives in continuing to keep them from us after we reached adulthood. It’s made me consider how much I don’t want the boys to have a similar experience with me.
Cuil isn’t taking with me. Its searches aren’t flexible enough, and despite claims of using the largest index, it generally fails the diagnostic searches I perform in which I look for something obscure that I know is out there. I still expect Google to be dethroned one day, but my view so far is that Cuil is a pretender. I’ll give it a while longer.
Have you ever considered the absurdity of The NeverEnding Story having a sequel?
A few of my blogging buddies do regular features on certain days. I’ve shied away from that, mostly out of fear of feeling constrained. However, I might keep the Thursday miscellanea post around for a while. I have a lot of thoughts that don’t really warrant full posts, so the ground will likely remain fertile. I’ll see how it goes.

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