Heh.

I got fed up with football during the second quarter--apparently it's OK to rough the punter in the NCAA now--and switched to a live feed of the 9/12 Taxpayer March on D.C. Quite enjoyable, and the estimates of 2 million attendees blows my mind.

I thought I was well-informed, but I'm surprised by how many of the groups and individuals speaking today are new to me. Lots to read.

Meanwhile, Obama addressed 15k in "Indianapolis, Minnesota." God love ya, Barry.

News you can use

It's not just Accordian Awareness Month, it's the twentieth anniversary of Accordian Awareness Month.

Memorial Day Again

Going to the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend, and whatever else looks interesting in Otsego County.

Adventures With Bratwurst

Greetings from the land of bitter clingers! I-80 through western/central PA is probably very beautiful when it's not fogged over, and when there are leaves.

I can't take pictures of myself, so I brought a stand-in:



Had a good time in Ohio with Grandpa and his orange cats. Tomorrow, Syracuse.

Travel.

I caught the tail end of this today (the AM band in my rental car was already tuned to the station that aired Rush--convenient!) on the way to an airport.

LEVIN: The statist creates nothing. The food Obama has was created by capitalism. The suit that he wears when he does these press conferences, he can thank capitalism, not a single bureaucrat. The car that he drives or that's driven for him -- the helicopter, the jet he takes -- all of it is a creation of capitalism.

RUSH: The teleprompter.

Did not drive off the road.

Changed flights at DTW, which smelled like a yak soaked in dog piss--I assume a fault in the climate control, since I can't find any news articles about shaggy bovines loose in a terminal--and featured stadium-sized screens of Airport CNN, which seemed to have Dear Leader's stand-up routine on a loop. There were smaller screens everywhere except the ladies' room. I finally found a dank corner where the screens were too far away to read the text--and the sound was being piped out of a speaker directly above my head. Thank God I had earplugs.

The young man seated next to me on my flight into MKE was a member of the WI National Guard returning home after graduating from basic training. He seemed tired, so I did not pester him with too much chat. His wife met him at the baggage claim and they were adorable. Heartening, somehow.

Whatever You Like.

Have been avoiding blogging because there's not really much I can say except "we're toast, we are so toast" (only usually with a string of profanity in two languages that makes the cat blush), everytime I read anything in the news. I should probably start avoiding news altogether, but I don't want to become the sort of low-information dimwit that gets talked into voting for people like Barry O 'cause they don't know any better...

I'll be offline for a couple of days at an interview in a different time zone (bonus: I'll miss Dear Leader's monthly television address to the serfs) and maybe I'll have something to say when I get back and maybe I won't.

Random thoughts

A new survey commissioned by Northwestern Mutual finds a new "American Reality" in which Americans value quality of life issues as more important than career, money and material possessions.

a) How can you have a quality life with no job or money? You're dependent on other people (most likely the government) to provide for you, so you're stuck with whatever they give you. I know some people really enjoy just sitting around doing nothing except letting other people pay their bills, but I like to be able to afford to leave the house every now and then...have a nice meal, see friends who don't live within walking distance, buy new underpants when the elastic gives out...selfish evil capitalist shit like that.

b) I suppose it's a good thing people don't value jobs, money, or stuff, because by 2012 only government employees are going to have any. Heh.

c) Chicken and egg. Do people say they don't value jobs and money as a psychological way to prepare for/compensate for not having any, or does not valuing jobs and money lead people to vote for the clowns who promise to take all that away from the rest of us?

d) The people who don't value jobs and money must be people who have never had either, and people who have never not had either. If I had a trust fund of sufficient size, I wouldn't be going to job interviews in Illinois...

Must stop reading the paper.

"Everybody loves Oscar the Grouch"

Zo cracks me up.

Well, meh.

Sinus migraine made driving down to Chicago unwise, so no first-person report from the Tea Party. I have been lying quietly in the dark, as befits my status as jobless loser scum.

(Jeff Saturday's back for three more years...oh, wait, sorry, didn't mean to participate in the world with my working betters. Won't do it again.)

Hah! We WISH.

The jokes should write themselves.

Unusual Red Glow over Minnesota.

2002...probably doesn't explain Al Franken.

Does anyone know what this means?

Interacting with global teams to promote consistency and maximize synergies.

I'm reading it as "stay late and/or come in early to deal with the time difference between Wisconsin and China."

I don't have the necessary technical experience for this one anyway...

Aha!

Got a letter today from my bank--dated the day after I called to report my stolen info--informing me that there was a "security breach" at a New Jersey company that "processes credit and debit card transactions for merchants" and my card "may be compromised."

"Fraud occurs in very few instances." My ass.

Does it matter when we're all doomed anyway? *srednop*

Sweet Barack Obama's waffle...

There are children I used to babysit on Facebook.

Posting pictures of their legal drinking and illegitimate children.

Have I mentioned that I regret wasting my life reading books and going to college?

I think I need more to do.

Of special interest to me

Coach Dungy will be on Rush Limbaugh this Thursday.

Maybe Rush will ask him about his support of Obama.

Further away than it was 40 years ago...

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

And tomorrow a misogynist, Marxist, product of the corrupt Chicago machine--without the integrity or the testosterone to vote yes or no on issues relating to crime and dying babies, who thinks it's funny to throw gangsta signs and surreptitious middle fingers, who'd rather work out than visit wounded troops, who changes his promises depending on his audience--is going to be installed as Commander-in-Chief.

Character? No one cares about character.

Oooh!

Mark Steyn is filling in for Rush tomorrow. *twitch*

It's like an early birthday present.

Drinking Right/Cheddarsphere Party

Obligatory post-party post. :P It was great to meet everyone, and now that I know some of you I can go on Tuesdays. Heh.

I didn't catch who brought the hand warmers for the gift exchange, but thank you--I will use them the next time I go to Lambeau Field. :-D

...and it's probably bad form to stop posting after talking about a blog, but I have the week off from pressing buttons and I'm going to try to spend most of it away from the Internets--baking, sewing, reading actual books, that sort of thing. I hate to waste my break from staring at a screen all day by staring at a screen all day. If I do anything interesting, I'll take pictures.

Don't touch me until you've had a shower.

A fan of Jay Nordlinger suggests a bumpersticker :

Celebrate Diversity — Hug a Conservative

It would be wittier if it was "Embrace Diversity." And I'd prefer to opt out, because I find that whole "liking people because of the label they wear" thing creepy.

But it might be a good way to lure an emergency moonbat into my trunk...