The good fight.

Al Gore Caught Warming Globe To Increase Box Office Profits

Endangered.

Polar bears are drowning in the ocean and eating one another.

But there is no global warming.

And Sawyer shoots them (with his shirt unbuttoned).
But only when they attack him on a tropical island.

But there is no global warming.

Thou shalt not give commandments.

This is an addition to my previous entry on irony.
This example came up at the YAR Christmas dinner.

Irony: An evangelical using a PowerPoint presentation to explain that people who use too much technology are going to hell.

Thanks Annette :-)

And I feel fine.

It’s the end of the world as we know it (according to Senator Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-VA): A Muslim has been elected to Congress.

The assiduous, diligent, studious, and erudite Mr. Goode called said Muslim, Senator Keith Ellison, D-MN, “a serious threat to the nation’s traditional values.”

Uh…wasn’t religious tolerance one of the key traditional values?
And the founding fathers weren’t Christian.
Just an FYI.
(And I’m not even erudite.)

The well-read, well-informed, investigative, and attentive Mr. Goode wrote a letter to his constituents calling for stricter immigration laws to keep the non-Christians out.
Senator Ellison replied, “[Uh…] I’m not an immigrant; I’m an African-American.”
According to the New York Times article, Senator Ellison can trace his American ancestors back to 1742. Duh.

Way to go America.
New York Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/us/21koran.html?hp&ex=1166677200&en=2c8c8b1dbbf94e32&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we

Merry Christmas :-)

Gooder writing tip #4.

Today’s lesson: The addition of the unnecessary s.

This usually occurs in words that end in –ward.

outwards
inwards
towards
backwards

I see the s and I delete it.
By Webster’s it’s offered as an acceptable variant only when used as an adverb. But since it’s a variant, meaning it deviates from the standard (read: correct), its use is discouraged. It just makes you look like you were too lazy to look up/care to use the correct spelling. Save your deviation for more important issues.

And please, please do not say "somewheres."

And, while we're at it, don't say:
sept for except
exscape for escape (but I forgive you Jimmy Wayne)
prolly for probably
gay for anything other than happy or homosexual

Amen.

I'm dreaming of...flip flops actually.

My friend Lindsey e-mailed me a series of snowperson-themed Calvin and Hobbes cartoons today, which were all really funny of course. I chose a few of my favorites to share. This is for all of you missing the usual December snow. I can't say I miss it, but it would be nice to have something on the trees. The bare bark is poetic for only so long. Maybe we should put green Christmas lights on them. Solar/wind/Binghamton Senators on treadmills-powered Christmas lights of course.

(You can click on the picture to see a bigger size.)

I don't wanna wait for our lives to be over...

I wore some old jeans from high school today and I can't believe how high the waist was.

That's all.

Friends don't let friends invade Iraq.

Today on CounterSpin, regarding the war in Iraq, Gary Young of Guardian Unlimited blamed England for giving a drunk friend the keys to the car.

Maybe he was talking about Uzbekistan.

Doorknob!

Another NPR nugget, this one from Wednesday:

A commercial airplane on its way from Washington, DC, to Dallas had to make an emergency landing in Nashville recently because a woman was lighting matches on the plane. After lengthy questioning, the FBI reported that the woman was lighting the matches because she had gas and was trying to cover up the smell. The woman was not identified.