It’s not like the Tea Party congressmen are hypocrites or anything.
Gaddafi’s infatuation with Condi Rice is really gross.
My childhood nemesis was found dead on his property. Seriously, no one scared me more than Mike Flanagan. Not even Jim Palmer.
Obviously, the solution is to sign someone tall to play for the Philly Union.
Reminiscing about Hurricane Bob.
It’s nice when whack-a-doodles get jeered by their own constituents for being insanely anti-choice.
Have you fallen for the Dead Sea cosmetic skin care scam?
Check out Smartypants and Rubber Hose.
What’s on your mind? Are you in the path of Hurricane Irene?
From the WaPo story on Flanagan:
Reportedly? Was nobody actually listening to the broadcast?
This is what happens when you’re 28 games out at the end of August…
I don’t know if you read Bill Simmons (aka the Sports Guy), Geov, but I got a kick out of this from his last mailbag article:
No need to worry about the Bonds comeback – if he did try to come back nobody would sign him, and if someone did sign him he’d get a steady diet of chin music…
That was pretty much my thought as well. Nobody is going to sign an unjuiced Barry Bonds.
I do read Simmons, though I missed this one. Some of his articles, mailbags especially, are insanely long, but he’s a very funny and talented writer.
His verbosity is what initially drew me to him – I used to have a job that had some very slow times in the spring and summer, and it was always a treat when he’d issue one of his online novellas.
He still loses me with most of his pop culture references, since I don’t really watch tv other than sports, but I love his sense of humor. His knowledge of the NBA is encyclopedic – if you haven’t read his Book of Basketball, it’s well worth it assuming you’re a fan of the sport.
thanks booman!
No problem.
The Flanny deal is very sad. I wonder if his financial troubles was due to recent stock market plunge.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-flanagan-house-death-20110824,0,
3759363,full.story
Oh, that sucks. That’s horrible.
Jeez. I know about 100 people who’d loan that dude anything he needed. What a waste.
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Goes by name of Oathkeepers with a star performer Sgt. Charles Dyer/aka July4Patriot.
Some background info. Dyer is now a FBI fugitive.
[Update: caught in Pecan Grove, Texas]
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."How come the FL guy who finds his salary and benefits ho hum looks exactly like the guy who talked baseball w. his rentboy?
Hurrican bob hit during my last year in RI. I was staying with a friend of mine. We watched someone’s roof get torn right off the house, and then went down to the end of Narragansett Ave to watch the surfers.
Awesome times.
The current expectation is Irene will hit Ocracoke Island at 2PM Saturday. We live approximately 60 miles inland (as the proverbial crow flies) NW of there. So. Ya’know. It’s coming right at us; we might even get the eye passing overhead. It’s gonna slam us from the SE then lash us from the NE. It could last 12 or more hours, maybe even a couple of days of high winds and sideways rain if it slows down. The last time a similar ‘cane came, eastern North Carolina was turned into a bunch of islands FOR WEEKS and supplies had to be helicoptered in.
Our house is at a high enough elevation that we’re not too worried about being flooded. We’re more concerned about our neighbor’s trees crashing on our house. We’re so close to a power plant we don’t expect to be without power too long. That depends, of course, on the level of devastation and if the plant is underwater. The storm itself is a terrifying risk but the prospect of seeing the wrath of Nature unleashed is kinda thrilling. The thing I worry about more is the aftermath, suffering without air conditioning here at the end of super hot and humid August, running out of coffee or gas for the generator, potential anarchy…
We’ve gone into manic prep mode: nailed up plywood over the most vulnerable windows; laid in supplies; fired up the generator to make sure it works to keep the freezer and fridge going (there will be ice!); have a tarp ready in case we survive flying trees and, therefore, care about covering the roof; have cages to store our chickens and guineas in the garage/workshop for the duration of the storm; screwed down the roof on the well house; and moved the family heirlooms to interior closets; checked our guns and ammo. We’ll go out again tomorrow to forage for D-cell batteries which are scarce and whatever else we think of at the last minute. Or my husband might go manic and start cutting down some of our neighbor’s trees.
But, we’re about as ready as we’re going to be to survive this shit.