truer words were never spoken

Everyone else has had more sex than me.

gm not sponsoring race-based “survivor”

And I’ll not watch it — as I have not watched the previous ten seasons when race wasn’t involved.

I’ll consider myself richer for it.

boom

Man, Lawrence sure seems to appear in a lot of nuclear disaster flicks.

i think it’s official: ted stevens is a douchebag (UPDATE: and the kleagle too?)

And hopefully, soon to be an ex-U.S. Senator. Hopefully the people of Alaska will soon undo their mistake.

Credit must be given to Porkbusters, Captain Ed, and Joshua Aloysious Earl Micah Bertram McGillicuddy Marshall’s crew.

I not only support the abolition of the anonymous hold, I support the Coburn-Obama earmark database bill that Stevens “held”.

UPDATE: And Sheets too?

tony, tony, tony

Tony of TKC, who just made his 5,000th post, makes #5,009 a whopper; while writing a story for his paper about the frequency of violent incidents at a local watering hole (”hole” being the operative word), he found himself a target of intimidation tactics by the club’s owners.

He and his publisher stood up to them and stuck to their guns. Good for them.

The story that provoked the confrontation is here, but so far it’s Spanish-only.

Great stuff.

sirius satellite radio favorites

Did some cleaning since last time.

  • R.E.M. — Orange Crush (my favorite R.E.M. song)
  • Ben Folds — Bitches ain’t Shit
  • Muse — Knights of Cydonia
  • Silversun Pickups — Well Thought Out Twinkles
  • Johnny Cash — God’s Gonna Cut You Down
  • Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen — Connecticut’s for Fucking
  • The Killers — When You Were Young
  • The Raconteurs — Steady As She Goes
  • Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence
  • Faith No More — Epic
  • Weezer — Undone - The Sweater Song
  • Motorhead — Ace of Spades
  • Violent Femmes — Add It Up

I deleted Fleetwood Mac’s Rhiannon. That’s a big step for me.

the CITIZEN JOURNALIST academy, II

I signed up. I’ll let you know what happens.

kgb: o.k., j.d. — now who’s the pathetic loser?

The Kansas Guild of Bloggers, hosted once again by Blog Meridian. With no submission from me.

emmys run plane-crash skit hours after actual plane crash

Anybody among my readership give a squirt of poop about the Emmys or anything that happened therein?

Me either.

rino sightings

Hosted this week by the always-stealthy Don Surber.

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