Miscellaneous Debris

I'm off to Vegas. I'll update when I get back or get broke. Wish me luck.

I'm so bored! I have nothing to do but read accounting regulations. That's so interesting I have to take a five minute break between every paragraph. I think I've spent more time leaving incoherent comments on Rusty's blog than doing my reading.

Maybe if I psych myself up some I'll be able to read these things a page at a time.

WHOO HOO! BRING IT ON ER37-1-29! YOU'RE GONNA BE MY BITCH!

Since it has been so long since my last drunken "random thoughts" post I thought I'd do another tonight, but I've been thwarted by internet connectivity problems. Therefore I'll just leave you with this nugget of wisdom directed to the barmatron who served me beer and lunch yesterday:

-You look about 245 months pregnant. I think it would be okay to invest in maternity clothes and leave the low-rise hip huggers and belly shirts in the closet until your teenage son decides to leave the womb. I'm sure your co-worker husband and the various other patrons at the bar would understand. Plus, you're not that attractive anyway.

Apparently a week was very optimistic.

My mom just called me to let me know that my uncle is back in the hospital. To let you know, he was diagnosed with spinal cancer some time ago. He fought it bravely for several years. About a week or three back, he suddenly went blind and that's when they found that the cancer had climbed from his spine to his brain. They performed chemo and the tumors shrunk some, but they were growing faster than they shrank. Now that he's back in the hospital, the doctors are saying he's only got about a week to live. I loved this man. He was one of my favorite relatives. He's the uncle you take your friends to hang out with. More to come when I hear.

The AFI is coming up with it's next questionably rated list of stuff. This time it's top 100 movie quotes of the past 100 years. The article by Erik Lundengaard on msn.com pretty much sums up how I feel about it. View the pdf of the finalists here. Since the AFI felt that, "Get away from her, you bitch!" (from Aliens) is some how better than any line from, we'll say, Clerks, I thought we should give it a try. Let me hear your favorite movie quotes. Try, though, to not post a hundred quotes to my comments. You can post a few, but on the off chance you actually have a list of some considerable size, email it to me. I'll consolidate and post later if there's enough to bother.

How's this for blatant bias? The title of the article is "Anti-Pledge atheist files new suit." He wasn't anti-pledge you jerkoffs. He was anti-under-god-being-in-the-pledge. Jesus Christ, next thing we know it'll be "Atheistic Terrorist files suit against pledge" or "Godless heathen questions merger of church and state." Why and when did we, as american citizens, become so complacent? Last time I checked we lived in a society that had freedom of religion and where the seperation of church and state was garuanteed . Instead of that we get instances like the one above.

Partially Unrelated:
The other day I was reading a news bit about a judge who had ruled that a drug addicted mom of seven, that was 7 (all from different fathers), kids she can't take care of shouldn't have any more kids until she could take custody of, and care for, the children she's already had. The judge acknowledged that he had no legal basis to say she COULD NOT have children, but wanted to help this lady get on the right track somehow. There was, apparently, a quiet dissention among some people in the area, and probably elsewhere, that said the government had no right to be in the bedroom and control a person's right to procreate, which they said was a fundamental human right. Technically, I couldn't agree more; however, there comes a time when some one has to say, "it's a vagina, not a clown car. Quit smoking crack and having crack babies." Furthermore (and more to my point anyway), while it's true the government SHOULDN'T be governing what goes on in the bedroom, it's hypocritical to say that and then vote to ban homsexual marriage, or sodomy, oral sex, or any sexual position other than missionary, all of which has been done/tried. I apologize that I cannot find the link to the news article, I should have posted this rant yesterday. DISCLAIMER: Since I could not find the link, I was unable to doulbe check the facts, she might not have had 7 kids but it was still a high number and is, at any rate, immaterial to the main point.

One final question aimed at msnbc.com (as sent to their email address):
Why do you segregate news articles dealing with race? That seems counterproductive to establishing a nation united regardless of color or ethnic background. I would think that a news article about, for instance, American Indians sending aid to the areas affected by the recent tsunami would fit just as well in the "tsunami in asia" section as it would "race in America".

My fortune cookie said, "Ask a friend to join you on your next voyage." Sooooooo, you are invited to join me in Vegas starting Jan. 30th (or 29th if I want to spend more time with you).

I'd like to take a quick break from the story to say that I'm back in DC . . . again. Another month long stretch coupled with a week elsewhere (Vegas so I'm not complaining about that, now that I'm a donator gambler). This being the case, it's back to the old habits I drop when I'm at home: gambling and drinking huge quantities of beer. Wish me luck, maybe I won't drink myself to the same point I was at a couple of times last month.