Winter is Here

Looks like winter is finally here. The high temperature in the 10-day Chicago forcast is the 35 degrees forcasted tomorrow. Beginning Saturday, it may be more than a week before we get back above freezing. That is really damn cold.

[note to self: check antifreeze in blazer]

Luckily, I'm going to Vegas next Thursday, Friday and Saturday for client meetings. Highs in the 60s.

[note to self: learn to play blackjack before Thursday]

Watching

"Get Fuzzy" is one of my favorite comic strips. The fourth panel of this one is one of the reasons why.

Bad Movie

So this "Borat" movie is a blockbuster. I have to blog on this, because for some reason, I let it piss me off every time I hear about it.

I think that piece of shit Sasha Cohen/Ali G/Borat should be shot. Maybe not killed, but at least shot. Wouldn't that make a great movie? We could pretend that we were going to give him an award for being so funny, and then, right before we gave it to him, we could say "Just Kidding!" and shoot him in both knees. Then, while he flops around on the ground in pain, we could all laugh. Evidently, people find that kind of thing funny.

In the movie, this idiot pretends to be a journalist from Belarus or Khazakastan or something, and tricks people into looking like idiots and embarrassing themselves. This isn't "Punk'd" (which also sucks) where multi-millionaire Ashton plays an elaborate prank on multi-millionaire Timberlake, and then when the prank is over, they both go back to being rock-star/movie-star millionaire gods. Instead, the pranks in this movie are on regular people (including villagers living in poverty who were used as standins to make it look like Khazakastan was some crazy backward country full of people who lived with cows), people who just went to work or to school that day and met the wrong person, and now they are embarrassed in front of the whole country -- their friends, their family, their neighbors, everyone.

For the movie, he got two college guys drunk and got them on tape saying racist/homophobic/misoginistic things. Now, those guys' reputations are ruined. They're 22. How could they deserve that? And don't tell me it was because they are bad people. Go out and get any 22 year old guy drunk and you are going to hear some very inappropriate stuff, regardless of their race or creed. He paid villagers about $5 each to act like they lived with animals, etc. The things in the movie don't approach "funny", but they get to "cruel" just fine.

I don't understand how people can laugh at this movie. It's disgusting, and it reflects the downward spiral of our society. Since when did hurting and embarrassing someone become funny?

A final note: Growing up, people did things like block driveways with haybales, or put old tires in someone's yard or T.P. someone's tree. They didn't try to make fools out of them. No matter what, don't play a prank on me designed to embarrass me. I promise I won't think it's funny. If you are a guy, I'll hit you. If you are a girl, I'll hit whatever guy is next to you. And when you explain that it was just a big funny joke, and that everyone really was just being funny, I'll hit you again. With a hammer.

Hunting Buddies

I'm fairly certain this is what Pothead, Snot and H.D. were thinking when I had to quit bird hunting at 11:30 am on Sunday because I had to work. Or, it could have been because I couldn't shoot to save my damn life. Again, all of the birds were smaller than the broad side of a barn -- clearly above my skill set on that particular morning.

Now, there is a party that we can all get behind.

From now on, I'm voting for the croc party. My republicans pissed me off, and the democrats haven't moved far enough to the center yet.

Presidents and Assholes

Eeds has to report on lots of the KS political races next Tuesday. I think she is less than thrilled.

Still, today there were two pretty good articles/commentaries on how things are shaping up for the Elephants and the Jackasses.

This story is about the Kansas races specifically, and discusses how the voters are moving away from the Republican party to embrace Democratic candidates (who used to be Republicans).

This story is about how the party in the White House always loses seats in Congress in the midterm elections, and that even if the Democrats grab the number of seats that they are talking about, their gains are still going to be below the historical average losses (it is a Coulter piece, so skip the first couple of bullshit paragraphs and look only at the mathmatical discussion).

Here is the way I see it: Republicans are losing voters because the Republican party is running so far to the ultra-conservative, super-religious, "Michael J. Fox Got Parkinsons Because He Is Pro-Choice" side of things that moderate conservatives like me are finally saying "fuck you, you ignorant fucking pricks." The problem, is that following that big "fuck you", we are left with the choice of (1) voting for a . . . shudder . . . fucking liberal Democrat, (2) throwing our vote away on an Independent, or (3) not voting (except in the very few cases where there is an actual moderate Republican or Democrat running). Given my near total disenfranchisement and disappointment with our elected leaders, I'm leaning toward the last choice.

Everyone knows that all real change is made by whoever has the most money and the biggest guns anyway.

Halloween 06

I went as a hunter. Boring, but I hate dressing up for Halloween.















Yes, I'm wearing a hat from a cow costume. No, I don't know why. Yes, I am wrestling with a pirate. Again, no clue why.