holy fucking shit holy fucking shit

my favorite thing about our President not calling the Iraq "situation" a civil war is that he wishes this was a civil war - they won't be selling ceramic figurines about the Western Anbar Province 130 years from now

but maybe the President is right Iraq really isn't in a "civil war" phase it's more of a "I no longer fear hell for I have been to Itchy and Scratchy land (or Baghdad)" phase

Iraq is bad and all but I need to support the troops right now - BY GOING TO WAL-WART and buying more for less!!!

going going gone

I saw a guy who looked like Timothy Busfield at Whole Foods yesterday

Then I realized every third guy looked like Timothy Busfield

The Timothy Busfield look is big at Whole Foods

you choose

For the past week I've been telling all who will listen (a select few) that I cannot stand the sports media's obsession with complaining about the Bowl System in college football and their incessant whining for a playoff system - which would of course ruin college football the only American sport that still has a meaningful regular season

and then today who piled on the argument opposite mine? the king of sport hackery himself Jay Mariotti - if this alone wasn't enough to eternally prove I'm right - there was also this pearl of wisdom in Mariotti's "case" for a playoff - his playoff system would have U.S.C. replay Notre Dame next weekend - even though Notre Dame just played U.S.C. this weekend and the game was a de facto playoff since it eliminated Notre Dame and allowed U.S.C. to remain in the title hunt - this apparently is not good enough for our sports media culture - no there must be another Notre Dame - U.S.C. game next week according to Mariotti and only that one would count really count
after all if we add a six-tiered playoff system to college football think about all the new witty retorts that could be screamed back and forth on ESPN's "Around the Horn" why who loses in that development besides 150 years of glorious tradition and anyone with an I.Q. higher than 68

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I remember being profoundly impacted by a Milton Friedman video I saw in 10th grade social studies class - it started my brief 6 year infatuation with conservative thought - girls wouldn't talk to me back then - but who's laughing now - I have a blog and they're all house frau's - and while I'm only a slight expert on complex economic theories I'm pretty sure Milton Friedman hated fucking house frau's - R.I.P.

scenes of triumph or how I learned to love America again

VICTORY

statement

if you're a college student you live in Montana and you campaigned for troglodyte Republican Senator Conrad Burns (who also happens to be fantastically corrupt) then you're a fucking idiot - I mean I realize you hate abortion and all but come on

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some people in my family consider the university of oregon football helmets "striking" -judge for yourself and vote in our online poll:

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