embrace your fear

I have Twittered about this, and I feel the need to explain: I think Obama is the candidate for November.
Why Obama:
He’s smart. Exhausted utterance about fifty-eight states notwithstanding. At least it isn’t the word “nucular.” Over and over.
He’s black. This is not a reason, it’s an admission of (a) about freaking time, (b) a new [...]

and yet so far

Props to this man for losing eighty pounds. However…..
CNN - 80 lbs. lost on McMiracle diet
Nearly anything that actually gets that much extra bodyfat off you is good. The man had a fifty-inch waist. However, the quality of food he used to get where he is now is atrocious. Never, ever, ever, should you skip [...]

the fertile crescent

I am ever-so-slowly making my way through the book “Are We Rome?” by Cullen Murphy. It’s a good book so far; he makes a fair amount of salient points - some I vehemently disagree with, but that’s what makes it a good book. However, when he starts to briefly profile Edwin Gibbon, [...]

gas rings

I am lucky to be able to have two cars to depend on; when I got the Jeep, we decided to keep the Saturn. Even though it was ten years old, it was still running, was in perfect condition (only two minor fenders-bender; neither my fault!), had never needed any real underhood work (the power [...]

push comes to shove

Alright; I’ve added the Wordbook app to both the blog (http://www.dansanders.net) and to Facebook. If all goes well, I post on the blog, it updates Facebook, and my laziness is preserved.

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if there were only words

This is a transcript of a conversation I had tonight. I will be translating half of it from the original “cat.”
“Hey.”
“Hey, kitty.”
“I want some of that.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Yes, I do.”
“No, you don’t, trust me.”
“I do NOT trust you, I want some.”
“No you don’t! Here, here’s the knife, smell that.”
“Yeah, no, I don’t want that. [...]

what would rhesus do?

This… this.. just, this….
Indian School names monkey god chairman
If you felt good about outsourcing to the subcontinent before, now you can feel totally confident. It used to be a Bengal Tiger, but the board meetings got WAY out of hand. Besides, the tiger’s Ph.D. was from a diploma-mill.
My next question; how soon before [...]