made of sliced Kobe beef, melted Taleggio cheese, shaved truffles,
sauteed foie gras, caramelized onions and heirloom shaved tomatoes on a
homemade brioche roll brushed with truffle butter and squirted with
homemade mustard.
Sounds tasty, but US$100 probably buys three weeks’ worth of brown-bag
lunch material (usually a meat/poultry/fish entree and salad).
Here’s a snippet from yesterday’s Achewood comic,
which pokes fun at the VP debates. These two panels convey actual
points from the debate, but the really funny stuff happens when John
Edwards (played by Achewood’s Renaissance Bear, Teodor) points out
fictitious votes in Congress made by Dick Cheney (played by Achewood’s
resident asshat, Pat):
Also enjoyable: Landover Baptist’s We Need Dick!:
as well. Cheney consistently voted against sanctions on South Africa
for its policy of apartheid (which, translated in English, means “God’s
chosen few”). Cheney even had the courage to vote against every House
resolution calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela.
Cheney’s Christian conviction that apartheid was right for South Africa
(and Mandela belongs behind bars) has proven correct. While liberal
Democrats were falling all over themselves to pander to the votes of penniless
coloreds, whom our Godly forefathers brought to this blessed country just
so those lazy creatures would have work, Cheney had the moral backbone
to stand up and say, “Nelson Mandela is no different than most black men
– he is a criminal.” Spurred on by Satan, the liberals ultimately
won. And look where South Africa is today. The coloreds can
go anywhere they want and the country is in a state of ruin. The
Lord said that servants and slaves should obey their masters with “fear
and trembling” (Ephesians 6:5). And look what happened when the Lord
and Cheney were ignored. Those South Africans can’t even leave a Christmas
tree air freshener in their parked cars without it being stolen.
Serves me right for procrastinating: I found this photo on a
file-swapping site that I frequent, saved it and planned to post it
this morning, only to find that Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing had beaten me
to the punch. General humour is my turf, Xeni! Stick to your
zero-G/fetish posts and no one gets hurt!
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently spoke at Harvard and said the expected: that recent decisions protecting abortion rights,
upholding the legalization of assisted suicide and striking down
anti-sodomy laws represent a dangerous trend.
But he also said something unexpected: “I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.”
For a man who’s this close to saying “the missionary position — not just a good idea, it’s the law!” this is quite surprising.
Clearly the man hasn’t seen The Ice Storm, and he must’ve been a total Poindexter when he attended Harvard.
New York Times caption:
“R.W. Apple of The Times, left, and Jack Germond of the Balitmore
Sun have covered presidential elections for decades. Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette.com is covering her first.” (Photo by Neal Slavin)
From Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail
(Truth be told, a lot of folks in the blogosphere are shaped more like the men in the photo.)
Bonus reading: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article Big and Bad: How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety, in which the author talks about what people worry about when they worry about safety: “not risks,
however commonplace, involving their own behavior but risks, however
rare, involving some unexpected event.”
As long as they’ve got Arnie hashing out lines from his old action flicks, let’s remember The Running Man,
one of my favourites. Richard Dawson played an especially memorable
villian because he played it by doing what he does best: being a smarmy
game show host.
(For those of you who are too young to remember, Dawson was the original host of the American TV game show Family Feud.)
“Who loves you…and who do you love?! It’s time to start…running!”
What you may not remember is that Dawson’s character’s name in The Running Man
is “Killian”. “Killian” also happens to be the name of President Bush’s
commanding officer back in the early 1970s — the one who purportedly
wrote the memos that are now believed to be possible forgeries.
Another interesting coincidence: Like the running men Bush and Kerry,
the veracity of reports on Running Man Arnie’s character’s military
service is called into question. The official story is that Arnie’s
character is “The Butcher of Bakersfield”, a US Army helicopter pilot
who shot at innocent civilians. In reality, he defied orders to shoot
at a food riot in progress, saying that they were just innocent people
trying to eat.
Surely some speechwriter is going over The Running Man right now,
looking for the appropriate Arnie one-liners for the governator to use.
Perhaps Arnie’s worst one-liner, “Killian! Here is Sub-Zero. Now just
plain zero!”, might be a good starting point.
Other interesting tidbits about The Running Man:
keeping the population misinformed and entertained. I loved Dawson’s
line as he gets on the phone: “Get me the Justice Department…
Entertainment Division”.