Tag: stupid is as stupid does

Yep. Monday’s Open Post. Consider it a “write-your-own third world county post” OK? Just link to this post and track back.

More later. I’m busy exploring Vimeo. There are some awefully creative folks posting short clips there. Fun time-waster. Back later. 🙂

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at Linkfest Haven.

Romeocat has this one prominently featured at Cathouse Chat… but the thing does say something like “steal this code here” (or some such) so,

Here’s your answer:

[CLICK on the pic to see a larger (though not necessarily better–used a cheesy lil digicam) view.]

Package reads, “Vegetarian-Fed Hens”. I just wonder where they got the vegetarians to feed to the hens…

Pondering the question at Stuck on Stupid, Adam’s Blog, the obscene–no! almost blasphemous!– post at Lil Duck Duck, “How to Give Up Caffeine” (yeh, drop the pop, but switch to coffee, dudette! :-)), Blue Star Chronicles, and 7 Deadly Sins.

While my Wonder Woman was brushing my back hair this morning, we had a synergistic interchange. I realized that my back hair, while luxurious in growth, never seems to get longer. She matched that quickly to the fact that I view haircuts as an inconvenience. WOW! Hair plugs from back hair! Never have to have another haircut!

As Ron Weasley would say, “Wicked!”

Now, a brief roundup of interesting things found in the blogosphere:

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R’Cat posts The Bill of NON-Rights

Thanks to the Beloved Husband, who e-mailed this to me: The following has been attributed to Lewis Napper, a self-described amateur philosopher from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian. “We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren… “

*heh*

Alexandra probes conservative environmental principles with an essential question in Politicizing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Acknowledging that most of us have to make a choice which camp to believe is an important start; and I stress, the emphasis is on ‘believe’ not on choice! Most of us can’t claim certain knowledge, although judging from what is written out there, you could have fooled me.

A thought-provoking read. For more on the topic, I suggest visiting Chaos Manor Musings and typing “global warming” or “climate change” in the search boxes provided.

Speaking of Jerry Pournelle’s place, here’s a piece he reproduced in mid May that I’ve been meaning to refer to before: The Fury of the Legions.

“Make haste to reassure us, I beg you, and tell us that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.

“If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions.”

There’s more at the link, of course, and Pournelle does note problems in the provenance of the quoted material, though nothing that would blunt the seriousness of the matter.

Folks over at Diane’s Stuff are playing Dead Guy in the Sidebar #11. I’ve held up my end so far by continuing to make guesses of folks who’ve already been Dead guys in the Sidebar or Teddy Kennedy (hope springs eternal, ya know). Drop on by and play, why don’tcha?

Sam (The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns) points to THE BEST Mastercard commercial (spoof) I have seen. Put down the coffee before viewing. Maybe NSFW (depending on your workplace).

Not a blogpost (and I can’t recall offhand how I found it—if it was via your blog, let me know, OK?), but Planning ahead is considered racist? is a must-read for those who want a lil ammo in the conflict with those who pervert the truth in order to advance the destruction of Western Civilization.

Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids’ education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you’re a racist.

According to the district’s official Web site, “having a future time orientation” (academese for having long-term goals) is among the “aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color.”

Well, there you are: being responsible is being racist. *Feh*

I can relate to Jay Tea’s analogy: Vicente Fox: The ultimate spammer, though some of the commenters seem to deliberately miss his points. No excerpt. Just read the whole thing.

I ought to have noted this one last week, well before Memorial Day. Brainster’s Blog links to Rick Monday’s 1976 dash to save the flag. (Again, I can’t recall who tipped me to Brainster’s post. If it was you, lemme know, ‘K?)

“Do Vampires Eat Hamburgers?” asks TRY. Steak tartare, Bubba Yak, steak tartare…

Angel’s Pakistani Torture of Women post is strong. The real face of Islam.

And at The Conservative Cat, ferdy posts Laura Ingraham – Andy Rooney on the Purpose of War

Well, that oughta add to your weekend reading list.

BTW, let me know what you think of my “back hair transplant” idea. I think it’s a winner. 🙂

OTPed at STACLU free-for-all

Office Space – Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition)

Damn Interesting (which ought to be named “DamnED Interesting”—*heh*) has an, uhm, interesting post, Unskilled and Unaware of It.

“Interesting” is an extreme understatement. Quite apart from the appropriate graphic citation of Milton Waddoms (the Office Space “Swingline guy”) meme, the post serves as a reminder of the dangers of the Lake Wobegon philosophy that “all the children are above average”.

Read the post. It’s a tad longer than many, and it’s info-dense, but it’s well worth your time, IMO. It places much of what you’ll find me ranting about here at twc in context… and—surprise! surprise!—you can decide for yourself how that post relates to my posts here. *heh*

Brief précis (if I may be repetitively redundant)? OK: Most incompetent people think they are not. Not only that, incompetent people are incompetent to assess either their incompetence or the competence of others.

Continue reading “Lake Wobegon Writ Large”

This is designed to be the blogosphere’s shortest (as far as I know) meme pool tag game. One simple question; one simple answer:

What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be?

OK, I’ll go first. Becker. His wit, charm and sensitive personality are my role model in life.

😉

Rules of the game:

1.) Ask and answer the question, “What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be”? (Yeh, I know you’re asking yourself, so the rhetorical form oughta be “What… do I want to grow up to be?” but it’s my game so I’m screwing with the English language the way I want to, so there.)
2.) Tag three people.
3.) Link and track back to the post that tagged you.
4.) List and link to the three people “upline” from you: your tagger, their tagger and the person who tagged the person who tagged you.

Since this lil blogosphere meme pool tag game is so extremely simple, I’ve attempted to make the rules as convoluted as possible to make up for alla the work you DON’T have to do coming up with a post.

Why not?

First Round Tagees:

Woody of Woody’s News and Views
Diane, of Diane’s Stuff
Angel, of Woman Honor Thyself

That’s all.

Oh, if you feel left out like the last kid picked for a side in dodge ball in grade school, drop over to one of the three tagees and ask for a hit.

Well, Diane certainly waxed prolix w/this puppy, proving that “The blogosphere’s shortest meme pool tag game” can be made into one of the longest if played by a real pro. 🙂

If only the occasional piece of satire were reality. Like this one:

China Calls In U.S. Loans, Demands California
Golden State could become Middle Kingdom’s east coast

*sigh* It’s be a series sweep for the U.S. Just think on it a second: Wipe out U.S. debt to China and essentially no change for The Red Coast* (save that CA would no longer be a haven for Mexican illegals—*heh*). The few hardy genuine American citizens remaining on The Red Coast* would need to be repatriated and recompensed in some way, but think on it: Hollyweird would actually become less anti-American and communist than it is now!

*Red Coast, of course, refers to the communist bent of most of California. I never could understand how so-called conservatives got tagged with the “red” label so strongly associated with communism in the 20th century. Go figure.

Well, not really, but Kris, over at Anywhere But Here, pointed me to a really cool video of the Mona Lisa… “speaking.”

Believe it or… don’t.

🙂