If Chris is going to give-in and do 5 strips/week at Achewood then I can give in and admit that Ray’s place is pretty damn funny. I’m reading yesterday’s post= in Ray’s weekly advice column and the list of euphamisms he comes up with for his rectum is causing one of those awkward work moments where I’m laughing aloud at my desk and I’m afraid a co-worker is going to ask me what’s so funny.

For safety’s sake, I am turning off comments on this piece. I don’t need a list of your euphamisms.

Nobody bit at this the last time I went off on it, but here’s more reason to go back to paper ballots. Wired’s got an article about a fella at Johns Hopkins who was bashing one e-voting system while holding a position on the board of a competing company. Yeah, baby, we’re reforming the heck out of our election systems…

At least the TV News will have rapid results.

Yeah, I know this sucks, but sometimes you need to let people know when you actually suck vs. when they (incorrectly) think you suck.

I’ve often joked that I’m going to start going to school board meetings now that John and I pay property taxes. This Salon article pushed me one step closer to being the crazy PTA lady with no kids.

As is evidenced by the Salon article, issues like the creationism v. evolutionism debate seem to bring out the crazies, and I find it most alarming that what these 2 groups can agree on is what we’re teaching our kids.

Aside from the new daily “moment of silence“ (where kids ages 5-18 sit for a minute of quiet reflection), this stuff about teaching creationism seems to be leading us down a very slippery slope.

Today’s strip at Arlo & Janis demonstartes two of my biggest issues with the Americanization of Mexican food (more commonly referred to as tex-mex.)

The government needs to step in and regulate the tex-mex industry in two fashions.

1. Chips and Salsa should limited to a single basket no larger than 10“l. x 7“w. x 3“d. for every two people at a table (rounded up, of course).
2. Portion sizes should be regulated to healthy meal size as determined by the FDA.

As a liberal, I distrust and detest the concept of personal responsibility in our society and I feel that it’s high time Congress save me from myself!

So in addition to being the source of quality, flat packed furniture at affordable prices , Sweden now embodies the long-held dream of the left for a day “when the schools are fully funded and the military has to hold bake sales.”

Bully for them, I say. I’d ask, however, that they send a Thank You card to the folks who made all this possible

The Y-chromosome’s been taking it on the chin lately. Looks like it’s not necessary for much except for growing peni, and will probably evolve itself out of existance in 125K years; less time than humans have been roaming the planet.

Looks like breeding will take place by combining the genetic material from two women’s eggs, which isn’t cloning. And it’s obvious that the reseracher doesn’t get out much. He would not “speculate on what would pass for sex once men disappear.”

My guess looks something like this .

I heard a little tune on my NPR station today that struck me as odd. Randy Newman attacking the dichotomy of being rich and a socialist. Had it been played in Houston, it might have caused jank to write his local NPR station a letter — then again, they no longer play music on his local NPR.

Like vultures circling a fresh kill, the nation’s finest have descended on the East Coast blackout of last week. Suits have been filed in Cleveland on behalf of the 50 million folks who lost power.

I did a quick survey of a half dozen folks I know who still live on the east coast, and none of them had asked for Cauley, Geller, Bowman and Rudman to represent them in this case. Truth be told, most of them had filed the entire experience in the ‘Crap Happens’ part of their life and were ready to get on with life.

But Cauley, Geller, Bowman and Rudman are looking to make a quick buck, and a third of 50 million claims at $50 each covers a lot of buxom young interns and greens fees for the partners, all paid for by the rate-payers at FirstEnergy to the slick Boca Raton law firm , who, by the way, also stands ready to help you recoup any losses you may have incurred in the stock market.

At least the folks at the the Long Island Power Authority get the big picture:

LIPA says directly reimbursing its customers would mean a rate hike.

Richard Kessel: “Money who might want money back from LIPA, we have to raise rates to pay the same people back. And obviously that doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

Don’t let Becky know this, but Wil Wheaton (former child star of Stand By Me and Star Trek: TNG fame) has a paperback in the top 5 bestsellers at Powells.com. Wil has most recently become a web fave when he leveraged his true inner-geek to start a blog about his real life. After creating as many enemies as fans for his portrayal of Wesley Crusher, he has garnered only positive reviews for WilWheaton.net. With Dancing Barefoot: Five Short But True Stories About Life in the So-Called Space Age Wil takes his new writing passion into print and anything in Powell’s top 10 is usually a critical success.