Thursday, November 20, 2008

Some people can't wait for 'Dolmio day'

Not your typical news story: Oz driver pulled with todger in pasta sauce jar
The law enforcement operatives identified "a 750ml jar around his penis" and said Weatherley gamely insisted on continuing to pleasure himself "between bouts of wrestling". A search of Weatherley's motor uncovered "pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier"

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Come and see the violence inherent in the system

In what has to be some kind of record, American Republican congressman Paul Broun is warning of an incipient Obama dictatorship just 1 week after his election -- 71 days before Obama is to take office:
A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."
Evidently, Broun thinks Marxism, Soviet communism, socialism, fascism, and National Socialism are all equivalent (well, they're all bad, right?) Evidently he thinks Barack Obama's liberal jackboot squads are already being covertly assembled in secret Massachusetts training camps. Evidently, being an ignorant hysterical boob is still a virtue -- for the remaining Republicans in the US congress anyway.

You know, I had a funny feeling 'conservatives' would suddenly remember their distaste for executive power, as soon as it was time for a liberal to be the executive. I do believe this was the first ironic squawk.

Preview of next week's issues: Oh, you mean you don't want the liberal government listening to your phone calls? What's that? You don't believe in torture, and secret prisons, and imprisonment without trial, and foreign military adventures? Gosh, we must have misunderstood you, all along.

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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Road trip 2008 photos: Switzerland

The final batch of photos from my January motorcycle trip. These are the photos from Switzerland.

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Road trip 2008 photos: Monaco

From my January motorcycle trip, I've posted the photos from Monaco.

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Road trip 2008 photos: Andorra

From my January motorcycle trip, I've posted the photos from Andorra.

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Friday, November 07, 2008

At the top of the list

Hooray! The expression "at the end of the day" has topped Oxford's list of 10 most irritating phrases. I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only person who hates it; Ever since moving to the UK I've learned to despise how often this meaningless bit of verbal decoration is used. I've heard it used twice in a single sentence, and then again in the following sentence, the way some people say 'umm'.

Unfortunately I have a new personal hair-puller that didn't make Oxford's list: After this US election season (and UK politicians are also using it lately) if I hear one more dubious assertion beginning with "make no mistake..." I'm gonna hurl. I mean really, thanks buddy -- I wasn't planning on making a mistake, but cheers for the warning.

Whadda ya know, Eskimo?

From Juliet Lapidos, of Slate's XX Factor, rubbishing reports that Sarah Palin thought that Africa is a country:
I don't believe for a second that Sarah Palin wasn't aware of the fact that Africa is a continent ... I'd also like to point out that none other than George W. Bush once referred to Africa as a "nation."
So, class, to recap: No way it's true, no one could be that dumb. And even if it is true, it's a mistake anyone could make -- even someone as scholarly and worldly as George W. Bush.

BWAHAHA! *Wipes eyes*. Juliet, you slay me babe.

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Road trip 2008 photos: Spain

From my January motorcycle trip, I've posted the photos from Spain.

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Road trip 2008 photos: France

In January 2008 I saddled up my motorcycle 'Hayley' in London and went for a long ride (3300 miles in all). We caught the ferry to France and traveled south to Spain, from Spain to Andorra, then back to France, then Monaco, then to Switzerland via Italy, and finally home via France again. These are the photos from the France portions of the journey.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

France photos (last year)

I've posted photos from the trip that Kim and I took last year to Paris with her sister, Roxanne.

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