My Morning with Barack

My morning of Thursday, February 28, 2008 was spent watching Barack Obama speak in Austin about his future plans for our economy.

I have many pictures of the event so if you would like to see them I openly encourage you to do so via my flickr page

i'm a backwards sort of guy

So I just threw some red stuff in the wash on the gentle cycle and I still think I am masculine.

I would rather hear "rhetoric" than concrete unworkable plans from a presidential candidate and I don't see what's so wrong.

I would rather hear concrete workable plans from legislators than more empty rhetoric.

I think I can be conservative and not want the government paying any attention to my phone calls or the brain-bran.

I simultaneously believe that casablanca and the rock are good movies.

I think people can change their minds

I think there is rampant agism against the young.

I think there is nothing un-american about the designated hitter rule.

I think it is weird that the nra doesn't get on board with ecology.

I will take a great deal of time with my word choices and gramatical intricacies but i don't particularly care about capitalization

or punctuation

I want smaller government and more consumer protecting enforcement.

I wish the ascot would make a comeback

info description of a show on tv

"in a magical world full of puppies, children are led on an advenurous educational journey of classical music..."

So i want to be the official Great Describer for cable TV so i can give such info to potential viewers.

BREAKING NEWS FROM FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS!!!!!!!!

Conchords Develop Powers.

Last week while visiting New Zealand metropolis Palmerston North city, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of The Conchords were exposed to radiation from an explosion at a power generating wind farm leaving them with super powers. McKenzie found that after exposure to the radiation he was able to send text messages with his mind and Clement reported that he was a bit stronger than usual and could lift about three or four more shopping bags than he usually could. But really full ones though. Effects wore off after ten minutes but during that time McKenzie managed to text his mate Dave "HPPY BRTHDY DAV. I M SNDNG THIS USNG MND".

Courtesy of http://www.conchords.co.nz/

the house divided that reagan built

So, I can no longer hold my tongue.

The superness of the tuesday and the bowl has been dwarfed by the superness of recent republican irony. We are not talking here about the ironies we have become so used to. This is special reagan irony. The basic idea is that a bunch of the talking heads (ann and rush) came out and condemned John McCain for not being republican enough and specifically for violating the Reagan Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." But here is the thing that astounds me.

So by attacking (swiftboating?) the likely Republican nominee, are not these pundits essentially committing the same sin they are so offended by? This is not "Alanis Morissette irony." this is "future generations will mock us irony."

A New Lost Theory...

Tommy & I have postulated a new Lost theory after viewing and analyzing tonight's episode.

First, let's review a couple of facts.

Fact 1: In tonight's episode we saw Charlotte find remains of a polar bear (which I correctly called before she announced that is was in fact, a polar bear) along with Darma remains (from the hatch?).

Fact 2: We, at this point, assume that the island was not previously visible to anyone before the "radio transmitter blocking thingy" in the hatch was turned off. We can also possibly assume that the anyone mentioned previously also includes the "rescue" boat.

Ok, now time for our theory: What if the "radio transmitter blocking thingy" was not really blocking radio transmissions as it would seem so? What if it was keeping the island in some sort of prehistoric world from the past? This would make sense seeing as how Charlotte was able to find polar bear remains in the present day desert. And by Desmond turning off the whatever it was in the hatch, the island was suddenly transformed through time to present day (black hole maybe?) and that was how the "rescuers" (are they from the Darma Initiative?) were able to find the island.

In addition, during one of the first 2 seasons, wasn't there an episode in which an unidentified "monster" was heard roaring and shaking the branches and leaves of tall trees? Yes, this could have been a polar bear or the "smoke" monster, but what about ... a dinosaur? What if the Darma Initiative was studying dinosaurs on the island during prehistoric times? Maybe that's why they used underground hatches...

Well, this is our mind boggling theory for this week. Tune back in next week for our newest strain of crazy. Please feel free to share your own Lost ideas and theories!!