“You have to do it too.” – Ned Flanders “It’s a small price to pay to see you humiliate yourself.” – Homer Simpson Two summers ago Israel spent a month playing war in Lebanon. They bombed cities all over the country, sent thousands of troops into the border area and inflicted a shitload more casualties, [...]
Archive for December 2008
Same Shit, Different Border
Breaking News: Most Americans Aren’t Dickheads
“Alright look, I didn’t want to have to say this but I think maybe we’re not seeing heaven because one of us doesn’t believe in it enough.” – Eric Cartman Charles M. Blow has been a welcome addition to the New York Times op-ed page and yesterday he had a story about a recent Pew [...]
The One Habit of Highly Successful People
Link Slut II: Exploration and Experimentation
“Marge, I’m bored.” – Homer Simpson “Why don’t you read something?” – Marge Simpson “Because I’m trying to reduce my boredom.” – Homer Simpson With the election over it’s a good time to rethink my reading list a little, but these days the danger of information overload is perpetual. My bookmarks list grew like a [...]
Stupidity in Motion
“You didn’t ask for rack and pinion steering, did you?” – Herb Powell “Uh, yeah, I think I did.” – Homer Simpson “How could you ask for it? You don’t even know what it is; you just called it ‘rack and peanut’ steering.” – Herb Powell On Friday we got our first significant snowfall of [...]
Netflix is Really Easy, But . . .
“You wanna rent it, sir?” – VHS Village Clerk “Why? I just saw the best part.” – Homer Simpson Netflix is a really wonderful service and one of the best things about it is the enormous scope of its inventory. If a title has ever been on DVD, odds are that they’ve got it. Having [...]
Aftermath: Nails in the Coffin
Aftermath: Prayers for Rain
Aftermath: A Very Deep Hole
“No no, dig up stupid.” – Chief Wiggum It’s been a little over a month since a black man whose middle name is Hussein was overwhelmingly elected President of the United States. (Italics used to emphasize Atrios’ point that the “holy fucking shit” nature of the win still hasn’t really sunk in or been properly [...]
Still Wasting Time
“This is the best part of the week!” – Homer Simpson “It’s the longest possible time before more church!” – Lisa Simpson Ahhhhh, that was a fun election season, wasn’t it? But it’s (more or less) over now and that means it’s time to once again try and tilt Tethered Swimming away from being just [...]
