POWER HUNGRY WOMEN

Lynn of Violins & Starships expanded my vocabulary with the word "gynocrat", which aptly describes those bitter, man-hating feminists who insist on calling themselves "womyn".

Which makes me wonder... if we elected one president and she suspended the Constitution, would that make her a "dyctator"?

AND I THOUGHT I FELT OLD *BEFORE* THIS QUIZ

You Belong in the Silent Generation

You fit in best with people born between 1925 and 1942. You are a person of high values and character. Family, your country, loyalty, and hard work all important to you. You are willing to do what's right, even when it's difficult.

Hat tip: Richmond of One For the Road

ENVIRO-NAZI HALL OF MIRRORS

"It's not a fee that would mitigate the effects of carbon - to do that we would be planting trees and buying wind power credits," said agency spokeswoman Karen Schkolnick. "This recovers the cost of the agency integrating climate protection into all of our programs."

In other words, we're taxing the crap out of you to pay for an agency that decides how much we should tax the crap out of you.

Better idea: scrap the agency, then you don't need the tax.

SOME VOTERS *ONLY* WATCH DEBATES

"Certainly most of the questions were inane, old, gossipy at this point. I mean Jesus how much more can we hear about Rev. Wright, right?"

Wrong.

These questions may be old to you, but a LOT of people only follow politics incidentally, and this may well be the first time they heard them. They may not even have been aware of the controversies those questions referred to.

Not everyone who votes is a news junkie.

GOOD QUESTION

"If the draft were reinstituted, would it bring about a quick(er) end to the war in Iraq?"

Yes it would.

Not a victory, just an end.

And a new beginning a few years later.

A CONFESSION ON PREJUDICE

I look down on people who can't speak standard English.

Yeah, I know. Who am I to talk? I sound like I just stepped off the set of Fargo.

The thing is, I know proper English, but I frequently choose not to use it in order to support an atmosphere of informal camaraderie.

Some people use non-standard dialects because they don't know any better.

And I look down on them.

YOU GREENIES ARE GETTING ON MY NERVES

I've completely lost my tolerance for environmentalism. I now view it as a strange, insidious, and probably dangerous religion.

The eco-nuts are the new shaven-headed 70's Krishnas, and the whole freakin' world is turning into an airport.

I'M HOPING THIS WORKS OUT

Testing out Haloscan comments. If they work ok, I'm going to put this into my archives, too.

Here's your excuse to test:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

AT MY HOUSE, THIS IS CONSIDERED FOREPLAY

[Hat tip to Lynn of Violins & Starships]

QUOTE OF THE DAY

From Shamus of Twenty Sided, on why most DRM schemes are generally a stupid idea:

1. Make sure the pirates can’t offer a superior product

This one is obvious, which makes it even more infuriating that most publishers are incapable of grasping it. Your wonderful DRM scheme for which you paid so much money is going to be outlived by the average Drosophilidae. Your (legit) users are going to be faced with online activation, CD checks, and typing in serial numbers the size of nuclear launch codes. A pirate is going to click "install" and get on with the gaming, already.

To his credit, he does more than just bitch about it, he offers some solutions.

EASTER EXPLAINED

It may not be technically accurate, but that third panel has one of the most profound truths ever put into words.

WHAT CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING? SCIENTISTS DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE

Amazing how global warming advocates will tie themselves into the twistiest of knots to avoid facing the fact that their queer little religion is just a pile of made up shit:

"Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them."

Translation - if their facts don't support our dogma, their facts are stupid.

Oh well, at least SOMEBODY is admitting that global warming is the big fat lie:

Kevin Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research says [excess atmospheric heat is] probably going back out into space. The Earth has a number of natural thermostats, including clouds, which can either trap heat and turn up the temperature, or reflect sunlight and help cool the planet.

That can't be directly measured at the moment, however.

"Unfortunately, we don't have adequate tracking of clouds to determine exactly what role they've been playing during this period," Trenberth says.

That's right, the people predicting eco-disaster forgot to factor clouds into their computer models.

Oops.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate the global warming Nazis? Because I really, really do.

DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING

Created by OnePlusYou

[via American Digest]

ELEPHANT PAINTS ELEPHANT

About 8 minutes, but fascinating to watch. Yes, that's a real elephant.

Two observations:

I had no idea that elephants had such fine motor control with their trunks.

No upward brush strokes. Only down.

THE OFFICE - EH...

Unless you're actually working in an office, The Office isn't really all that great.

And even if you are, it still isn't.

I mean, only 10% of it is funny. The other 90% is just awkward.

Awkward should only be used sparingly in a comedy, if at all.