Bumper sticker of the day

If size doesn’t matter then why don’t they make 4 inch dildos?

*btw these are actual bumper stickers witnessed driving throughout the day.  On this one, your stereotype imagination of the occupant is probably accurate, someone you wouldn’t care to get any mental image of – dildo or no dildo.

My overpriced

private school just informed me via email that 1 in 5 students at my school are depressed and we all should get screened to see if we need counseling.  Perhaps the school depression rate is related to the daily realization that you are amassing around 200k in debt and will essentially be working for the school for the next 20 years.

WTF Obama?

Does he think he is a sports player or something that doesn’t have to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem or pledge of allegiance at the Harkin Steak Fry. Damn commie, that is stupid politics right there. I was going to continue to refer to him as Brock, the Americanized name I gave him, but shit no, not now, he ain’t no American.

Note Well

If you occupy a public water fountain for several minutes to refill your water bottle use the lower placed fountain and let us drinkers exercise our priority.  I think it is fucking rude to stand there filling your righteous water bottle while us folk thirsty for an immediate quench must bend over awkwardly.

What a Bummer:

Tancredo won’t seek re-election

We are sure to be overrun with the ensuing flood of immigrants moments after he leaves office. Why must this savior leave us when we need him most? Will he run for Senate? Oh, I forgot he is going to be president.

Bumper sticker of the afternoon

Road Rage Next Ten Miles

Someone please explain this one to me.

5 years jail for breaking and entering to steal chickens!

This gem comes from Rhode Island, of all places, last amended in 1956. Perhaps the fine should be increased to accord with inflation and the seriousness of the crime. I wonder how often this statute has been invoked in the last 50 years?

§ 11-8-6 – Breaking and Entering to steal poultry
Every person who breaks and enters, or enters in the nighttime without breaking, any building or enclosure in which are kept or confined any kind of poultry, with intent to steal any of the poultry, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($ 500), or both.

Every person who is discovered in the act of willfully entering any building or enclosure in which are kept or confined any kind of poultry, with intent to steal any of the poultry, may be arrested without a warrant and detained in jail or otherwise until a complaint can be made against him or her for the offense.

BTW, it should be noted that chicken-stealing was a problem in the first part of the last century.  Ole Jack Skinner nearly got castrated for his chicken theft, his third strike…which made for the famous constitutional law case of Skinner v. Oklahoma.

The Characterization of Gay Sex as Immoral and Unacceptable

In Lawrence v. Texas (2003 SCOTUS case striking down sodomy laws) Scalia offers the “world will crumble” argument is his dissent, asserting in part that:

The Texas statute undeniably seeks to further the belief of its citizens that certain forms of sexual behavior are “immoral and unacceptable,” –the same interest furthered by criminal laws against fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity. This effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation. If, as the Court asserts, the promotion of majoritarian sexual morality is not even a legitimate state interest, none of the above-mentioned laws can survive rational-basis review.

Thus, Scalia is grouping in homosexuals with immoral and unacceptable behavior such as fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity; saying that if you overrule a ban on that “nasty & immoral gay sex” then you have to legalize the rest of the “immoral and unacceptable behavior.” To characterize gay intimacy as parallel to bestiality and like like is appalling but not without traditional roots. A Mississippi law (now unconstitutional in part) groups, and has been interpreted to group, homosexual sex with bestiality:

§ 97-29-59. Unnatural intercourse – Every person who shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years.

Nothing earth shattering really to share here, I just found this statute in my day of work and it reminded me of Scalia’s association of gay sex to bestiality. Scalia sees homosexual activity as an immoral act thus providing a legitimate government interest for the government to regulate. That is his problem. If he viewed it as conduct unrelated to immorality it is characterized as, then there is no basis for government regulation and it should not be grouped with the likes of bigamy. Thus to counter Scalia, it is not an immoral act that warrants such regulation and thus the deregulation of it will not lead to the legalization of human/beast sex or father/daughter relations. In other words, the mighty fear that the world superpower will fall due to homosexual intercourse is rather silly and unfounded.

Heine crashes the Oshkosh, Ne Homecoming Parade

looks like the governor’s camera man was the only one showing up for the big event! Does no one give a shit about Heine and the little whitefaced crumb-cruncher apparently passed out being dragged by the ruthless banner of the czar of the NGOP machine?! But considering it is Oshkosh (population, like, 100), and giving Heine the benefit of the doubt, maybe a large percent of the town did show up, to walk in the parade? Either way it doesn’t appear too many Oshkoshians came home for the Homecoming Parade and to see the almighty NE ruler.

non-handwashers be damned!

In the last week I’ve encountered several people in this flu driven season who use the bathroom and walk right out of the bathroom. I’m not a total germ freak but I certainly have a legitimate interest in other’s hand washing habits that exist in my realm. One of the non-hand washers today encountered is the tech support guy at school, you know the guy that puts his paws all over your laptop when you have a problem. A guy I saw yesterday zipped up and started whistling as he headed past the sinks to the door. As if the whistling was going to distract from the fact that he did not wash the shit off his hands. Perhaps the whistle made his mind think no one was paying attention to his premature exit. Anybody that whistles in the the bathroom deserves to be popped in the junk. I hate whistling outside of the bathroom but the last thing I want to do is listen to you whistle some stupid ass tune as you pinch one off. And don’t forget about the frequent token wash that I witnessed early in the week. What a bogus way attempting to please societal norms yet failing to secure the main objective. And then there is the guy who just plain walks out the door with a sense of arrogance (the too good for this hand washing bull-shit kinda guy) giving everybody the implicit middle finger, to which I say “fuck you too.”

Personally I hope all these flakes contract antibacterial-resistant staph infection and have a near death experience. A guy in my class keeps a travel pack of anti-bacterial wet wipes and wipes down his desktop in each classroom. Great idea and you should see the color of the wipe when he gets done. Wash your fucking hands, if not for your own health (cuz I could really give a rats ass about you), for others who actually want to be clean and healthy.

email sig lines

It is mildly annoying and really makes no sense when people place descriptions on their email signature. Example:

Larry Craig
Title/Position: US Senator/Any
Company: US Senate R’ Us
Address: 5548 Airport Blvd….
Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Cellular Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Email: imnotgayneverhavebeengay@rainbow.net

Now the designation of what type of phone line it is, is ok (use cell not cellular tho), unless there is only one phone number given. But what the fuck is the point of telling the receiver of the info that the subsequent listed is your title, address, and email? We (most of us) are not fucking stupid and can figure out without much effort if the information is an email address or a phone number or the title of your position. Additionally, why does the email even have to be listed? If you emailed them they should have your email right? Despite that I don’t have a problem with listing your email for the convenience of providing complete information in case someone wants to copy and paste. Clean up your email sig lines people!! Concise!

btw, after the reference to Larry Craig, I throughly enjoyed using “position” and “receiver”

wordpress v. blogger

All of my last several blogs were on blogger. I really liked the flexibility and integration of blogger but absolutely hated the available templates. I spent a ton of time customizing blogger templates just to make them look presentable or somewhat unique. Blogger has been the popular host for many years but now wordpress is really picking up the pace. So I thought what the hell and made the switch over to wordpress. I like the presentation but I really hate a few things about it too including:

• Not being able to edit templates w/o subscribing
• Not being able to use java script in the sidebars (unless you subscribe to the editor i assume)
• The taging/category system – it is used for searching throughout wordpress rather than organizing posts within your own blog. I much prefer bloggers system.
• To upload more than 50mb you have to pay – or use a photo hosting site which isn’t as convenient
• Not having a quick edit button to increase font size and type.

Over all though I like wordpress and am getting on to it. WordPress is far more sophisticated as far as design and editing if you pay to edit it or use it to host your own site. I especially like the availability of three column templates that look much nicer, cleaner and are more appealing. Plus I can log on to wordpress from work without being blocked by the firewall/filter like blogger is

busted my hump

I roofed the father-in-law’s house last weekend and let me tell you it was a ball buster. I have roofed every summer for 10 years now so that was nothing new but this time around I hadn’t done any physical labor like that for about a year. When you only do one roof a year like this your body isn’t ready for it, not to mention getting older. I could barely walk the next day.  And I smashed my big toe ( I think I dropped a 100 pound bundle of shingles on it) so I’ll pry lose a toenail or just be in  pain for a while. The roof wasn’t bad at all and everything went pretty smoothly as far as that goes but it was a bitch on the body. While I don’t mind roofing, at this point I never want to do it ever again. Thank god I went to school, now if I can just get through that…

Well what do ya know?

The Rox v. Sox lingo hit the headlines today shortly after my prediction offered below this morning.

Rox v. Sox

how many times am I going to have to hear that? At least the Red Sox have a legitimate claim to usage to Sox instead of Socks since it is their bona fide name.  Perhaps we should just rename the Rockies the Colorado Rox and be done with it.

Purge dead blog urls

Blogger, WordPress, Typepad and the like have so many dead url’s occupied by dead bloggers. They need to purge all the blogs without recent postings in the last, say, 2 years and give the opt out option to the rat pack blogger who really wants to preserve his blog for archive purposes. We need to get all these claimed yet unused free blogging urls freed up. This is a solid example of a blog that needs deleted and freed up for the active blogger to claim.  Same goes for email, which I think hotmail already attempts to do. If you don’t log into your account for 6 months you lose it. I hate seeing a good blog url wasted because someone claimed it a few years ago yet failed to post even once. Because reserving a blog url such as this one is free there is no disincentive, there is little care in the world if one hordes a blog url without posting. Free up these good addresses so people aren’t forced to throw numbers on the end.

The Daily Nebraskan is

absolutely crap this year.  The actual quality of writing is horrible and the reporting is often less than accurate.  While many examples can be provided any weekday, I provide one from today regarding CFA and the allocation of student fees.  First off the headline is completely incorrect.  No allocation actually occurs until the spring semester! The editors assign the headline based on the content of the article and based on the shitty reporting, created an inaccurate headline.  It implies that the current CFA just voted to allocate an amount of funds. When the reporter writes “CFA has designated that $2.44 of each student’s fees,” that designation was from last year’s CFA, no new designation has been made, contrary to what the writer leads the readers and obviously the news editors to believe.  CFA is not easy to report on because it actually requires the reporter to understand the function and action of the committee, the reporters actually have to work in order to report accurately, something most DN reporters have failed to do this year!

Drudge is a frickin headline writer,

not a blogger. He is often characterized as one of the first bloggers but that is simply not the case. He breaks stories via the stories. He writes headlines coded to html links to news stories. A sweet job, but not totally not a blogger. He is an opinion news aggregater. Often times he ignores or misses significant news stories and his news selection is sometimes odd. Anyway, to call him a blogger illustrates one’s own ignorance and archaic grasp of the times.

Educational Regrets

Primarily I regret not learning languages when given the opportunity, specifically:

• Spanish
• Latin
• English

How can I enjoy writing and do so much of it without actually possessing knowledge of proper English grammar? Especially considering my career will be based heavily on writing and understanding the English language. Hell, it’s hard enough to remember that grammar ends with an -ar and not -er. Somehow I do and will continue to succeed, operating with an assumption that if it sounds/looks okay, chances are it is. Latin is not dead. The need to know Spanish these days is almost as obvious as English.

I don’t regret not taking the following (b/c it would have brought down my undergrad GPA) but wish I would have taken:

• International Relations
  • Since my youth I really have not given must interest to what is going on outside our borders. It is incredibly important now of course, but I still find it boring. Signs of early Libertarian principles?

• Economics
  • Knowledge of economics is powerful. I feel pretty broadly educated except for this area. Like politics and law, economics is everywhere – intertwined with daily life.

Michelle Malkin…

is consistently close to being the most annoying person on the Earth.  Just thought I’d get that on the record.

Bumper Sticker of the day

“I’d rather go hunting  than ride with Ted Kennedy”

Putting the partisan pot shot aside…maybe it is just me, but I would rather take a ride with a drunk than get shot in the head.