Entries from June 2007

June 29, 2007

Yeah, but this one eats popcorn - I’ll give you the punch line, do you know the joke?

I don’t know, I never looked!
With a crowbar…
Well, every afternoon I grab a bag of Cheetos and I put a porno in the VCR…
What kind of duck do you take me for!!!??
If I’m going to be impotent, I want to look impotent..
Hit the ball, drag Bruce, hit the ball, drag Bruce….
I didn’t know it was [...]

June 29, 2007

12 million ways this won’t work…time to come up with something that will work..

I have to admit that there is more than a little satisfaction in seeing many Republican types who had heretofore somewhat supported the President finally realizing what many of us grasped a few years ago - Bush’s arrogance and cronyism and stubbornness are not becoming to the office. His torturous immigration bill flopped amidst [...]

June 28, 2007

Spiderman, Spiderman, all too human, Spiderman

We watched Spiderman 2 on tee-vee last night.  I loved S-2.  Not so much the original and I’m not hearing much good about S-3.   When I was a kid and all the goodie-goods were reading Superman and Batman, my buddy Kimble and I squirreled away with our Marvel pals: Fantastic Four and Spiderman.
Spidey was my [...]

June 28, 2007

I’m not giving up yet, but the Yankee doodlers are less than dandy..

A few posts ago, after a 9-games Yankee winning streak, I crowed that that Red Sox nation better be watching their back because the Yankees were on the march.  I was certain that the addition of Clemens would add more fuel to the fire and that the Yankee surge was inevitable.  Apparently I should have [...]

June 24, 2007

Dick of the Decade Part II

Read the following paragraph carefully. It’s really not subtle, but one might forget we live in a nation of laws and that no one person is above the law. The paragraph concerns torture and what should or should not be allowed by representatives of this country:
The vice president’s lawyer advocated what was considered [...]

June 24, 2007

Signs of the Apocolypse

God knows I love my sports, but there are limits.  A couple from Pampa, Texas recently named their newborn son ‘ESPN’.
Other than most of his life, the child won’t get much hazing..’hey Espen, CHANNEL this!’.
I wonder if old people could have kids if they’d name their kid ‘Weather Channel’?

June 23, 2007

Night of the living 8 under, or was it something I ate

Last night when I was lying prone on the bed about 1:30 tireder than used dirt I realized that sleep was not going to be calling. Not wanting to turn on a reading lamp to disturb the snoring gently cooing wife, I trundled myself downstairs and fired up the tube. That movie about [...]

June 22, 2007

Vokoun is Vo-GONE, I don’t want to be a doubting Tomas, but is this the second stage of the fire sale?

I’m hearing from reliable sources (104.5 and Paul Nicholson and ESPN.Com) that the Preds have traded fan favorite goalie superb-as Tomas Vokoun to the Florida Panthers for three draft picks, including next year’s first round.
When I heard that Vokoun had a contract clause that was going to kick in to the tune of 5.5 [...]

June 22, 2007

Will we always have Paris?

I once vowed never to mention HER name again…that spoiled heiress who is famous because she has lots of money and madcap ways and a patina of blandness that to me overcomes any interest whatsoever.  But, this piece on MSNBC.COM slays me.
The heiress who shall be named no more has now discovered that she is [...]

June 22, 2007

Dick of the Decade

They say that by middle age a man’s face is a reflection of his character.

I give you Dick Cheney. His arrogance seeps through. The perpetual sneer is testimony to the respect this man has for the American public and for democratic transparency. I never hated Bush. I don’t much [...]

June 21, 2007

Investment Question Updated

Several months ago I asked the more monetarily savvy mavens if the over/under line on Pacman going broke should be set at age 37 or age 38. Obviously I was wildly optimistic re Pac’s chances. Do you think that age 28 is too high?
Something is happening here, and you don’t know [...]

June 20, 2007

Bush remains non-soft on stem cell..tainted love for the discarded

I really have no desire to re-hash the arguments over the use of embryonic stem cells for research and possible use in a cure for diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. The Prez’s veto of the latest bill to ease restraints on federal funding for stem cell research was no surprise considering the veto was a [...]

June 20, 2007

If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues; morphine..or morphine is bueno bueno..

Actual conversation at Baptist Hospital between my wife and the charge nurse after i was moved from ICU* to a regular room:
Wife: My husband is in 7625 …could he have a cup of water?
Nurse: He’s not there yet.
Wife: yes, they brought him down a few minutes ago
Nurse: no, he’s not there yet.
I had been [...]

June 15, 2007

UNCLE FRED!!!!??, or, Rolling with the Thompson gunner..

Would someone please parse this quote from near-candidate Fred Thompson:
“Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.”
I get the fact that the conservative candidates in the Prez-i-dential sweepstakes need [...]

June 14, 2007

Open invitation to Jim Balsillie (’pending’ new owner of the Preds)

I once made this offer to my sister, but I’m going BIG TIME now (sorry, Margaret).  I”m offering the helm of Salem’s Lots for ONE FULL WEEK to Jim Balsillie (the Blackberry dude who is probably going to be the new Preds owner).
I don’t offer the captain’s chair lightly, but, as a hockey ticket purchaser [...]

June 13, 2007

Attention New York Yankee haters…ya Bawston fans

‘We’re’ COMING to get you.  That 14 1/2 games we WERE behind has a familiar ring.  Anybody here remember 1978 (ok..anybody here READ about 1978?)?.
Abreu is waking up, A-Rod is walking/homering amongst the baseball gods, and Roger will GLARE YOU DOWN.
Those games against the Sawx in August are gonna be fun, and believe me, are [...]

June 13, 2007

Rocking the casbah..or, I can’t stand up for falling down

There were bombs amidst the minarets yesterday, in the burgeoning civil war in which we ’somehow’ find ourselves enmeshed. Earlier in the war against the country that did NOT bomb the US nor sponsor the bombers, we heard about the progress of the home-grown Iraqi troops and Iraqi police force. Not much talk [...]

June 11, 2007

It’s a family affair…the Soprano hits the note

Did you really really think that David Chase was gonna tie this thing up with a bow and resolve this mess?  The point that many people forgot (including me from time to time) was that this (The Sopranos) was a show about family.  The ‘mob’ was the hook to lure us in…from the moment the [...]

June 8, 2007

That’s soooo random..

 I got tagged by an East Tennessean..a guy I’d love to have a cuppa with..
1. Stealing a mantra from my friend S-townMike: It’s been 24 days since our esteemed* councilman Ludye Wallace promised to hold a neighborhood meeting to discuss zoning, etc. We’re not holding our collective breath.
2. Despite the promises by the attorney [...]

June 7, 2007

The King James version, or why sports still matter..

The last couple of days have pretty much reeked.  NIT reeling, Brittney being unfairly lambasted and ultimately resigning, troubles at work that depress me greatly, my friend Ginger in a car wreck, Bush still President..I could go on, but I’d depress myself further.
Normally, I really don’t care about the NBA playoffs.  By this time of [...]