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Thanks, I needed a big grin today. I guess it is pretty hard not to notice people spitting. In the urinal. Weird!

I am a huge fan of Cowboy Bebop and have been anticipating the movie release. Do you know what dates it will be showing in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area??
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Andrea

Hope your Easter—err—Good Excuse to Visit the Relatives and.... Day was wonderful!

I agree that people have a choice and you’ll note that in my original entry about Karyn I took her supporters to task more so than I did Karyn herself. Karyn was far from poor and there are way more deserving people out there that could have used some help that went to a spoiled New York TV exec instead.

Go ahead and start your own cyber-begging site. Just don’t come here and advertise it in my comments and we won’t have a problem.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

I prefer “Death by Cheap Chocolate Day” myself, and have a good one!

Karen has my kudos for doing what did, the way I look at it, people have a CHOICE to send the money or not, personally if I had the money I’d send her a dollar a day just for the entertainment value of her site, it’s cheaper than going to a comedy club!

I luved Harry Potter and the goblet of Fire it was my favorite I’ve read it over 50 times seriously! (probably even more lol

Does anyone know where Ralsky lives in Michigan?

those “fake” panties.... well, the ones in the adds… Victoria Secrets and such… are not the type worn on a day to day basis.  For one, they are usually too colorful NOT to be seen under the your clothes and that is not appropriate for everyday existence/work atmosphere (unless you’re a striper or prostitute).  Two they are uncomfortable to try and “work in” or bum around the house in all day. 

I guess “real panties” means… real like living as opposed to the glorified, unrealistic, over-demanding, male expectation that every woman worth her salt subjects herself to running around in sexy impractical underwear all the time ... just in case some man should happen to catch a glimpse under clothes.

As opposed to those fake panties Les??

I know I’m a cynic, but I don’t think Boy George will let us down, if WMDs aren’t found soon; they’ll start fabricating them.

I remember these figures—they didn’t have Job last year. Hmm…

I want to know if Solomon comes with any accessories? Say perhaps a sword and a small baby that you can actually split in two? That’d be sweet.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

iam the founder of reapers war this band will soon see the day of light and i will bring the good name of lazlow too life dont believe me find out in 2010 or earlier whatever i dont care reapers war will debut with a album called let freedom die

Oooh, I want Solomon because he will cut everything in half.

LOL

Natalie - I so wanna know how you know about using urinals. There’s just got to be a fascinating story behind your comment.

Leigh - I’ve noticed that it works on the popup comments but not if you go to the individual entry page and post a comment. I must have broken that one when I worked on the design a bit. I’ll see if I can fix it.

Kat - Trust me. Most of us guys try very hard not to acknowledge that there’s anyone else in the restroom, let alone notice how they’re going about their business. There’s even a code of ethics many guys follow on what order you select a urinal if some of them are already in use. There are some behaviors that are just so odd you end up noticing them despite your efforts, though. You don’t WANT to notice, but you can’t help it.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

What I thought was the most amusing was his mother being more concerned about the dangers of flying frogs then the potato gun itself.  I think they all have been spend way too much time sniffing fumes!

I’ve always been amazed by the bathroom behavior of others.  Since I’m not a guy Natalie’s concept sounds right to me.  I also think it could also been some type of ownership ritual.  Like they are marking it before using it.  As far as the observing others I chaulk that up to human nature.

les, why can’t you guys just piss in the urinal without looking at each other? i mean, if you were watching your own , you wouldn’t notice the spitting. guys are just weird.

Weird! Now I am wondering if some women piss into the toilet before they go?

I do know that some make a 10 minute production of covering the seat.  LOL

OK, I was getting a little worried about you there for a while, but by the time I got to the end I was feeling better.  LOL This is just too funny!  I have no answer to the riddle, though; but I think Natalie might have nailed it.  LOL Oh, btw, how come your “remember me” thingy doesn’t ever remember me?  I’m developing a terrible complex and my feelings are getting hurt. *wink*

It’s so they have something to aim at - that makes urinating more fun!

At least, that’s why I spit in the urinals before using them...but perhaps I shouldn’t mention that little habit.

That’s a good question Scott. I’d imagine it’d go something like this:

FREEZE YOU HEATHEN PUNK! DROP YOUR FALSE BELIEF SYSTEM AND BACK SLOWLY AWAY WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! NOW! OR I’LL TURN YOU INTO A PILLAR OF SALT BEFORE YOU CAN SAY GOMORRAH! YOU’RE UNDER ARREST FOR FOLLOWING A FALSE GOD AND JUST GENERALLY ANNOYING ME! I HAVE A FINGER FULL OF OMNIPOTENT POWER HERE AND I’LL USE IT ON YOUR PAGAN ASS IF I HAVE TO! GO AHEAD, BITCH, MAKE MY MILLENNIA! YOU’RE MY LITTLE PUPPY NOW!

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

Nicely said. I had a piece I never actually finished about pre-war Iraq and its ethnic problems that would bubble up once the shooting started. The north is especially bad, considering there are Iranian sponsored troops up there, too, which may have been bombed by us today (I need to go look at the news stories out there).

You said exactly what I was thinking while reading that… “If you are homeless, how come you are able to send email? How does THAT work? People PC to the rescue or something?”

I’d mention that I have the same problem with the folks who set up sites asking to be bailed out of their financial problems, but I don’t want another resurgence of interest in THAT topic.  *grin*

We called them Polish cannons. My neighbor behind us lost an eye to one of those.

Didn’t stop us from using them, or M-80s in the nearby pond . . .

How the hell does God arrest someone? I had to read that line three times before I realized I wasn’t mistaken in what I was seeing.

Hell, they’re still digging out WW1 era mustard gas shells in the French countryside. Every year they find a couple.

Good piece—I’m still waiting for WMD, myself.

Ithink that it’s sad when people act like asses like that. They had no right to do that to him. It’s retarded what people will do to just make themselves or other people laugh.

I remember those cannons! We would climb up on the roof of our houses to shoot those tennis balls way the hell out over the neighborhood. No one got hurt.

The frog thing—it’s just wrong!

Had to laugh at your suggestion of banning frogs, though…

I’m assuming you’re speaking to me Tybrecia. Please enlighten me as to how my “English defys(sic) description>>>“ as you put it. Are you saying that you have trouble understanding what I am saying or that you’re offended that I used naughty words like “shit” and “ass?”

One thing is for sure, you do not profess to be a christian.

You manage to figure that out all by yourself? Or did you cheat and look at the description of me in the left side bar where it says RELIGION: ATHEIST. Yes indeedy, that just might be a clue that I don’t profess to be a Christian. So what of it?

Buying tickets makes as much sense as your terrible language…

Well the above made no sense at all so I guess we’re even on that score.

clean up your act then work on John Edward!!

Right, you can’t possibly think that I might be right because I use “naughty language” and no one who uses naughty language is ever right about anything! Grow up a little then come back and bitch at me about what I say on John Edward. At the least try to come up with something approaching a sensible and logical argument for your stance first.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

Your English defys description>>>>One thing is for sure, you do not profess to be a christian.
Buying tickets makes as much sense as your terrible language...clean up your act then work on John Edward!!

You’re a college senior and your spelling is that bad? Oh boy. Well, let’s address some of your points anyway. Those we can make sense of at least:

The think that I hate about Michael Moore is that he hates Bush more than he hates Saddam.

How do you know this? Surely he’s made it clear he’s no big fan of The Shrub(TM), but I don’t recall him making any statements about how much he hates Saddam. You can assume that his lack of criticism is an indication that he dislikes Bush more, but that’s just an assumption. Without specific statements from Moore about Saddam all you can really do is speculate and speculation is often incorrect.

Does he really think that he has all the solutions and the Bush knows nothing?

You’d have to ask Moore, but the truth is: Does it matter if he thinks that? Rush Limbaugh often spouts off as if he’s the Sole Guardian of Truth and All The Right Answers yet you’re not criticizing Rush. Whether or not Moore believes he knows more than Bush or that he holds all the answers doesn’t affect the validity of any of the points he raises one way or the other.

Come on, Bush has much more and better intelligence than us watching Fox news and CNN.

I’m assuming here you mean “access to information” when you use the word “intelligence.” What you say may be so, but having better access to information doesn’t guarantee that the right choices will be made. You can have all of the best data on a subject available and still make poor choices if you don’t utilize the information properly. Bush’s greater access to data the rest of us aren’t privy to does not mean he’s going make the right choice, it just means he’s better informed.

The problem with the far left is that they are still pissed that Bush won the election and they cannot let that go.

Bush didn’t “win”, he was appointed. There’s a difference. By the same token the problem with the far right is that they’re still pissed Clinton got a blow-job in the oval office and they’ve not let that go either. Of the two issues I think it’s understandable that some people are more upset about being governed by a man that didn’t win the popular vote than by a man who got laid occasionally by someone other than his wife. At least with Clinton is was a President they chose to have in the office.

No matter what Bush does he will never please these idiots.

Much as Clinton never pleased the idiots on the far right. Status quo. What this has to do with Moore, though, is beyond me.

I voted for Bush in my first ever election and I am going to the next time proudly.

Bully for you. Based on your spelling skills alone I think I can see why you voted for him.

The best thing that Americans could do would be not to buy his stupid book and not watch his slanted movie.

Why would this be the best thing Americans can do? I think the best thing Americans can do is continue to engage in discussion and debate over the issues. Instead of writing off Moore as a left-wing nut job the conservatives would do well to analyze what it is about Moore’s message that appeals to enough people that Moore keeps making money. Obviously there’s a large segment of society that agrees with Moore on some issues at the least. Instead of dismissing him, they should try to figure out why people agree with him.

I mean really did you see the people he talked to that own guns they were all Tim Mcvay types.

First you say they shouldn’t see the movie then you ask if we saw the people he talked to. How do you expect people to know what you’re talking about if you also expect them to shun the movie in question? Apparently you must have seen the movie as you’re raising this as a criticism. Are we just supposed to take your word for it?

I grew up as a hunter with guns in my home and I have never shoot anyone and treat them with the saftey that any hunter knows.

Again, bully for you. This statement proves nothing other than you believe yourself to be a safe gun owner. OK, how does that one example invalidate Moore’s argument in his movie which you don’t want us to go see?

This guy is an idiot and needs to keep his Fat Ass mouth shut.

I bet folks have said the same thing about you.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

That’s funny. I say the same thing about being an adult all the time.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

I used to be a journalist and even though I was getting paid for it, I always felt somehow that I was pretending to be one. It was a surreal time.

I am just a college senior so I havent seen it all and I admit that right away.  The think that I hate about Michael Moore is that he hates Bush more than he hates Saddam.  Does he really think that he has all the solutions and the Bush knows nothing?  Come on, Bush has much more and better intelligence than us watching Fox news and CNN.  The problem with the far left is that they are still pissed that Bush won the election and they cannot let that go.  No matter what Bush does he will never please these idiots.  I voted for Bush in my first ever election and I am going to the next time proudly.  The best thing that Americans could do would be not to buy his stupid book and not watch his slanted movie.  I mean really did you see the people he talked to that own guns they were all Tim Mcvay types.  I grew up as a hunter with guns in my home and I have never shoot anyone and treat them with the saftey that any hunter knows.  This guy is an idiot and needs to keep his Fat Ass mouth shut.

Lediah was my friend and you’re right, Deborah was brave to not blame everyone else for Lediahs accident. Lediah was one of those crazy kids who’d do anything for a good laugh, and the place where we live isnt very fun so he was constantly coming up with new ways to entertain us. I miss him a lot, R.I.P. LAS.

Exactly!  (and yes, it made perfect sense) This is something everyone should read!  Well done!

While I do some research before I post my insane blathering, I do not consider myself the voice of authority on ANY subject, and do not consider myself objective enough to be a worthy journalist (not that objectivity seems to be all that important to journalism now days - Fox news). I like coming here and posting because it forces me to think and let’s me blow off steam and if I can draw anyone else into a debate (or shouting match) so much the better.

Yeah. *nodding head* Hey, enjoy that 80 degree weather, Les!  Have a great one!

You are preaching to the choir there brother.

I advocate a flat tax - no loopholes tax structure so EVERYONE has to shoulder the burden and pays according to their earnings. You or I might not ever be picking out $3000.00 shower curtains for a house in the Hamptons, but we also shouldn’t be paying the lion’s share of the tax revenue (which I base on a per capita percentage rate, not a strict dollar to dollar accounting). Obviously a large corporate entity will pay more in dollars and cents than (most) private individuals even while they pay a much smaller percentage. Companies like GM get corporate welfare and tax breaks to keep them in the U.S. in theory to supply jobs and keep the economy strong, but as long as they are enjoying the benefits from selling their products in our country they should also be paying their fair share like everyone else. Otherwise they are nothing more than extremely wealthy parasites.

That’s hard to say and I think a lot of that would depend on where you ask that question. Word has it that in Tikrit, which benefited greatly under Saddam’s rule, there were no cheering crowds welcoming the troops and the statues of Saddam still stand.

Those who were most oppressed will naturally welcome the removal of Saddam and it’s clear that there are large groups of people who were pretty heavily oppressed, but not everyone was oppressed and not everyone, even among the oppressed, is happy about the change.

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

I do not have to much to say. I know one thing though, and that is our political counter parts need to address important issues. I know this. The budget cuts will have a great impact on the disabled. If they make the cuts they have planed, we will see more homeless people in the land of plenty. The working class are taking on the brunt of the tax load, while the rich have loop holes made easy by the government. If there is no changes soon, we are headed for some very rocky times, not that we have had them already. Man has surely dominated man to his injury. Thank you.

True they’re not happy about the looting and feeling that the US isn’t any better - but i’m sure if they were asked, “Would you like to return to how things were 6 months ago, or deal with this?” - they would go with the way things are… I’m sure what they’re adjusting to now is much better than the hell they were in…

That’s my attitude, too, regarding whether or not folks read my site. I figure it’s a release valve for me, more than anything else, and if other folks are willing to discuss things, then that’s more than fine by me.

We’re supposed to hit high 70’s, maybe 80, ourselves, today.

What happened to spring? We had snow last Monday!

In a recent poll taken over who would make a better president, a box of lime flavored tic-tacs beat out our residing (read: residing as in just barely staying president because he’s gonna get us all blown up and be the president of fuck-all) president, George W. Bush by a 70/30% victory, with 17575 more votes than him. I daresay that unless anyone brings a above-average candidate to the next election, tic-tacs will be the winner by write-in.  It isn’t enough that he has to make himself “feel like a real man” by bombing the shit out of people, but he acts all cowboy about it.  A real cowboy would kick Bush’s ass outta office and run this country right.  Then we would have a pirate V.P., and a ninja treasurer.  Things would get done like that *snaps fingers*.  No more communists trying to invade our country. North Korea (the REAL problem, you idoit Bush!) would be taken care of before they fucked us in the ass while we were looking in the wrong direction.  Jesus, the next thing Bush is gonna do is open up ANWR. Not stopping there, of course, the great plains will be drilled for oil and the national symbol will become a bull with a cowboy hat and a pistol in its hand...hoof...thing.  Woo… kinda was more of a rant there than anthing else… im gonna leave now…
the poll was taken from -http://maddox.xmission.com/tictacs.html

I unfortunately moved to Texas almost eleven months ago.  I have fought this bill and similar bills since they were announced in November 2002.  I have testified at public hearings, written countless letters, lobbied elected officials in person and written letters-to-the-editor.  I have been quoted in at least two major Texas newspapers and was briefly on TV the evening of the Senate hearing.

I have a 5th grader in the public schools and under no circumstances will she participate in any religious exercise that masquerades as a moment of silence.  Nor will she pledge allegiance to the state of Texas, which has done its utmost to violate her first amendment rights. The thought of my child declaring any kind of loyalty to a state tyranny is ludicrous and I won’t allow it.

As for the mandatory national pledge: she isn’t doing that one either, thanks to two little words that force the reciting child to swear an oath to monotheism.  My own protest long predates the 9th Circuit decision.  I haven’t said the pledge on those grounds since 1971 and my daughter doesn’t say it either.

As for that “parental permission” clause.  That’s a load of crap too.  The 1943 SCOTUS West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette decision unequivocably ruled that no one can be forced to say the pledge, including children.  States are using the permission clause to circumvent that 1943 landmark decision and I think it should be challenged.  If a high school junior, for instance, feels that he cannot in all honesty say that pledge, but his parents don’t agree and won’t write a note, he will be forced to recite it or will be disciplined if he doesn’t.  That is wrong. 

Also, I have already informed my elected officials that my daughter will not observe a moment of silence either.  That simply will not happen and if the school tries to impose discipline, I will take decisive action.

That one is tricky.  The only way that a student can’t participate in a moment of silence is to stand outside the school building during the ceremony.  Moving to another room won’t do it, because the kid is still technically observing the minute.  If the ritual is performed at the beginning of the day, I will have to keep my child outside the school walls until it’s over.  She will no doubt be listed as tardy.  She is a straight-A Gifted and Talented student without a disciplinary blemish on record in any of the four states she has lived in so far, but I cannot in conscience comply with a law that is hostile to religious freedom and expression.

If the damn thing is signed into law before this school year is up, it could be in force immediately, in which case I will have to begin my civil disobedience campaign.  Otherwise it will be implemented at the beginning of the next year.  My child will not attend a Texas public school next year.  I have had all I can take of Texas.

This bill isn’t the only legislative attempt to trash church/state separation in Texas and impose un-American intrusions upon personal and private conscience.  There are many other bills that have been approved by the originating chamber and will no doubt become law in this dispicable state.  The religious extremists, or the “Texas Taliban,” as they are called here, run Texas now.

I just have bloggerrhea; I’ve tried taking something for it, but it doesn’t help!

Thanks, though.

I was wondering how long it would be before I started attracting Comment Trolls. Looks like I need to find a nice big can of “Troll-B-Gone.”

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All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don’t gotta share it with someone
All I know is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
-- I Feel Fantastic, Jonathan Coulton

Ahh, but as a warblogger told me yesterday, “It’s only been a month. Give it time.”

Yeesh.