No Runny Eggs

Michelle and Bryan will be live-vlogging the YouTube debate. Somehow I doubt they’ll accept Stephen Green’s martini challenge, but since I can neither speak well nor look good in front of the camera, I may as well. Of course, I’ll have to modify things a bit; I’ll be doing Sam Adams.

Beware the S-, D-, A- and F-bombs tonight.

Nothing is really catching my interest tonight, and Bucky’s first real test of the basketball season is due up presently, so I’ll just send you along in the general direction of those that actually have something. (Editor’s note; since I don’t have much of anything new or exciting to offer, I attempted to disable pingbacks to the blogs I’m mentioning here.):

– Casper’s back with some wicked takes on the “coexist kerfuffle” (original parody from the irreplaceable Tom McMahon)

– Mary Katharine Ham sat down with a couple of CNN types and talked the Pubbie YouTube debate.

– Patrick Ruffini and Jim Geraghty have duelling takes on the Ron Paul effect. If I get more time, I’ll expound on why I’m far more in Geraghty’s camp on this one, but I will say that there is a reason why Libertarians aren’t in office even if a significant portion of the populace agrees with the smaller-government portion of their platform (and no, jumping on the Toofer and Dhimmitude train isn’t going to help them either, even though it’s made them more popular with the presstitutes).

– From the Theives in Gubmint Department – State Edition: massive pay raises for state employees, with a only-in-gubmint defense from Russ Decker. Hey Russ, I don’t recall too many in the private sector getting 3.1% annual raises, and the last time I checked, 6.3% for yourself is a lot bigger than the 5% you’re giving the non-union employees.

– Fred Thompson borrows the Paul Ryan tax plan. Again, what’s with the option of keeping the bloated tax code so complex it takes a dolly to cart around?

– Caledonia Unplugged has the latest on the traffic-killing roundabout at the intersection of Hwys 38 and K down in Racine County. Like any bad gubmint project, it’s overdue and ineffectual. I’ll wager it’s also over budget.

– The Artist Formerly Known As Dennis York, a former legislative aide, brings forth a stack of stupid constituent letters.

– As long as I’m raiding Atomic Trousers, Dr. Emil Shuffhausen’s Rulez of the Road is a must-read.

– If you’re a closet Hitler fan, like a certain Philadelphia baseball writer, take these lessons to heart. First, don’t admit it in an e-mail. Second, and most-important, don’t under any circumstances let Ace find out. Fans of Bugs Bunny ought to be able to guess that putz calls himself a genius, and we all know what happens when self-proclaimed geniuses run into morons that can barely pass the entrance exam to kindergarten.

– Speaking of baseball, I put a lot of trust in those that value Sabermetrics, like fellow barkeep ESK. I’m going to enjoy all of the homers that Cordero’s going to give up for the Redlegs. That’s $48 million well-spent (at least from a Brewers’ fan’s perspective) by a division rival.

– I previously noted that Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy is going to write an autobiography in the mold of OJ Simpson. Uncle Fred’s running a contest to name that book.

Revisions/extensions (3:33 pm 11/28/2007) – Jo ever-so-gently reminded me of a call from the Fond du Lac Reporter for kissing experiences and perferences. Talk about stupid presstitute tricks.

(H/T – Weasel Zippers)

With Ted Kennedy getting $8 million from the Hatchette Book Group for his memoirs, both he and OJ Simpson are profiting quite handsomely from having women die on them.

Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow is dead at 52. I can’t find an actual video of the quintessential “Bang Your Head (Metal Health)”, so this will have to do.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBNCRzsLGs[/youtube]

Bang your head!
Metal health will drive you mad!

(H/T – JammieWearingFool)

A blog set up by Algore Goracle to promote The Convenient L…er, An Inconvenient Truth has been hacked by hawkers of online “pharmaceuticals”. As someone who has to routinely clean that kind of trash out of the spam traps, I feel for the web monkeys who now have to reseize control of their blog. However, I just can’t stop chuckling that a domain registered to the self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet got PWN3D.

I hope they weren’t running the setup I’ve got.

Sean Hackbarth’s birdie told him last night, and everybody else is catching up this morning. The word on the street is Lott is leaving before the end of this year to take advantage of the fact that new prohibitions on the ability of departing Senators to lobby their former colleagues for 2 years after departure don’t take effect until 2008.

Maybe he’ll get the band back together (as JammieWearingFool suggests), or take up baking lessons (after all, Slublog points out he’s asked us to eat cake).

Revisions/extensions (3:46 pm 11/26/2007) – Got a few of them here:
– First things first, that prohibition mentioned above is also in current law; it just is for one year instead of the two it is going to be soon.
– I wonder just how gold-plated Sean’s source is. The Washington Times says that this came from the White House. (H/T – JWF)
– The Washington Post says that the special election will be with all the other ones in 2008 (they earlier speculated that the 90-day rule would have to kick in if Lott left this year), and that the leading candidate for the appointment is Rep. Roger Wicker. MKH touched on the larger money issue already today, so let me continue. The WaPo notes Wicker has $569,000 in the bank, which makes it seem that the reason Lott acolyte Pickering won’t get the nod is the money. Odd thing is, Pickering has $761,000. The only good news is the prohibitive favorite on the Dem end, former AG Mike Moore, will be starting from scratch.

Or so say a couple of cosmologists not content to simply blame Gorebal Warming on mankind, but the inevitable collapse of the universe on us as well.

The claim rests on a house of theory cards, starting with the Big Bang theory, continuing through the subsequent theory that the “Bang” was incomplete and left “dark energy”, zipping ahead to 1998 and the application of the quantum Zeno effect, which states that repeated, quick observations of a microscopic object can cause it to stop changing, to the discovery of dark energy, and ending up with postulation that by “resetting the clock” on dark energy, we’ve made it more likely that it, as an unstable system, will fail.

Nice try. The universe, as we know it, will end when God says so, and not a moment earlier or after.

If at first you don’t succeed at smashing .500 for the year, try, try again…

Green Bay (-4) @ Detroit – History versus numbers; take the numbers.
NY Jets @ Dallas (-14.5) – NBC will regret losing next week’s NFC Championship Preview to the NFL Network.
Indianapolis (-13) @ Atlanta – As bad as Indy’s been, the Dirty Birds are that much worse.
Minnesota (+7) @ NY Giants – Let the usual G-men second-half slide commence!
Denver (+1.5) @ Chicago – You may like, want and get the short one-and-a-half, but you’re not gonna need them. In what should be a theme, take the over-41.
Tennessee (-1.5) @ Cincinnati – Things haven’t yet hit rock-bottom.
Buffalo @ Jacksonville (-8.5) – Losman’s playing? Don’t figure on the Bills scoring a lot.
Oakland @ Kansas City (-6) – The Chiefs are on a kaiser roll.
Houston @ Cleveland (-3.5) – Just take a look at where this game is.
Seattle (-3) @ St. Louis – The Lambs winning ways stop here.
New Orleans @ Carolina (+3) – ST will finally be happy. I gua-roun-tee it.
Washington @ Tampa Bay (-3) – The Bucs D is back.
San Francisco @ Arizona (-10.5) – It’s a good thing bionics isn’t yet illegal in the NFL; otherwise, Warner would still be bagging groceries.
Baltimore (+10) @ San Diego – Remember, it’s NOOOOOOOO!rv Turner’s “offense” that’s giving the long 10.
Philadelphia @ New England (-23) – The good news is there are only 3 more opportunities for Olbermann to snag the Pats. The bad is that means they have 2 more national appearances already guaranteed. Take the over-50.5, and take the Pats to bust that by themselves.
Miami @ Pittsburgh (-16.5) – The only question is, will Ricky come out to get stoned by the Steel Curtain?

– God, for sending his Son Jesus Christ to live the perfect life I can’t, die the death I deserve, and rise again so I may be justified in His sight.
– The blesings that He provides.
– My family (dunno how the grilling’s going to work with the cold wind though).
– The US military, for standing up and defending the greatest country in human history.
– The few politicians willing to say, “No more spending” and “No more taxes”.
– The many more, if still too few, people willing to tell those politicians, “No more.”
– My health.
– High-speed internet (unlike Jim, I don’t quite go all the way back to 300 baud; I got in at 1200, though some boards were still stuck at 300).
– The Packers for proving me wrong.
– The Brewers for one heck of a ride this year (look out in 2008, NL).
– Blogging friends, both those I’ve met and those I haven’t yet.
– Labatt Maximum Ice (7.1% alcohol in a lager has that swing).
– Walleye.
– Too many other things to list.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

(H/T – MKH)

Reason number one to keep that No. 2 sharp:

TUCKER, Ga. — Quick thinking by a DeKalb County teenager may have saved her life, police said Monday.

Two men tried to kidnap the girl near Tucker Middle School Monday night, police said.

The 14-year-old was on her way home from dance practice when a black van pulled up, and the men tried to grab her, Police said, adding that the girl got away when she stabbed one of the men in the arm with a pencil. The girl was not seriously hurt, police said.

No word on whether it was a wood or mechanical pencil. Each has its advantages in self-defense. Wood pencils can be made extremely sharp, and the wood can leave one heck of a splinter, but they get dull. Mechanical pencils are always sharp, and some of them have metal tips that aid in penetration, but the lead tends to break off if extended too far, and most mechanicals don’t penetrate as deeply as woods.

It also pays to pay attention to one’s surroundings; the story also notes she recognized the van the perps were driving lurking around the middle school a few days prior.

I’m not feeling too great (twisted my ankle on Friday, beginnings of a cold trying to make itself evident), and the leaves in the gutters and the lawn are calling (the weather is the “best” that it’s going to be all week).

I’ve had some problems with bots and botish behavior on the blog all weekend. Sorry about any inconvenience caused by that and my heavy-handed attempts to take care of that.