(BushCo Fun Comparison: 1) Budget allotted the 9/11 commission to investigate one of the most horrific atrocities in American history: $15 million. 2) Budget allotted Ken Starr and his flying monkeys during the GOP’s appallingly nasty effort to crucify Bill Clinton because he had mediocre oral sex in the Oval Office: $70 million. Just, you know, FYI.)
Archive for June, 2004
PeopleFallingOver.com. I like the story of the Dairy Queen mascot who got tackled in front of the store 
Take the quiz: “Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You? “
Pog mo thoin
Pog mo thoin - ‘Kiss my ass.’ You’re one tough bastard, and if anyone doesn’t like it, they can kiss your ass. You enjoy fighting and causing grievous bodily harm. Hey! What are you lookin’ at, punk?
Congrats to Liv Tyler and her husband Royston Langdon, who are expecting their first child this winter!
Currently suffering through work with a throbbing headache, stuck in between my boss’ twin 19 year old daughters. I think my IQ has dropped about 50 points this afternoon. Someone hire me. Please. Please. Please?
A teacher in Japan forced a student who had dozed off in class to write an apology IN HIS OWN BLOOD.
So far I’ve won with ‘Compassionated’, ‘Hyporhetorical’, and ‘Misunderestimated’. I did lose on ‘Yurp’, though. Because, come on! That’s not a freaking word!
Let’s face the reality: If ripping off the public trust; if distributing tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of the poor; if driving the country into deficits deliberately to starve social benefits; if requiring states to balance their budgets on the backs of the poor; if squeezing the wages of workers until the labor force resembles a nation of serfs — if this isn’t class war, what is?
It’s un-American. It’s unpatriotic. And it’s wrong.
More Mark Morford wisdom about Reagan and how he wasn’t all that great of a President. To say the least.
