Day: December 14, 2008

Okay. What's with this facebook crap? Do I get something out of having a facebook? Why does facebook make me sound so stupid and Ted Stevens-like? Is facebook punking me?…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDWSwvVZ6Bs[/youtube] Well, pull up a pew and watch the teachings of Christ...

Go figure, an Iraqi journalist has more balls than ours do...

The Eagles will not lose today.  The Cowboys will.

From the tipline... Dear Dr. Liberal: If Mike Matthews had a spine, what kind of vertebrate would he be? - A Fellow Cubozoa You are no doubt referring to my…

I’ve been thinking again about the 3,000 or so ancestors I have (a great many of which are your ancestors as well) and that long imaginary line of men snaking back into history to ancestor number 1 who lived, had sex at least once, and died near what is now Ethiopia around 10,000 years ago.

And what I am thinking is this: I’ll bet that line of 2,999 men are pretty boring guys. If the world is as statisticians tell us it is then there were some a little taller than me, some shorter. There were some outliers on the smart side and some outliers on the dumb side, but most of the 3,000 were probably fairly undistinguished.

I don’t harbor any illusions that my genetic heritage is terribly interesting or noteworthy.

If you missed Dana, Mike Mathews and me on TV, Mike has posted the video. We talk about the election and stuff while I sit slouched down (for some reason).

All those nightly multi-part in-depth investigative reports that the even handed press did about the waste, poor planning, and fraud that led to our $100 billion failure restoring basic services…