Hey, hey.

Holly said: "What letter does bread start with? 'B' like the letter or bee like the animal?"

The sheep are being fleeced.

Aren't there more people in the country that are getting pissed off about the current administration's misinformation and attempts to shift the blame of failure?

I remember, very clearly, because I had just started staying home full time with Holly. Bush addressing the UN, stating clearly that Saddam had a whole bunch of naughty stuff. I remember feeding Holly baby food while Colin Powell showed "evidence" of satellite pictures with little white circles painted on them. I remember the diagrams of the mobile chemical weapon factories that were allegedly all over the place over there.

And I remember thinking that it would be OK if we had a specific goal in mind: In and out fast. I remember thinking that if we were there for an extended period of time, we were going to be in trouble. Well, we are in trouble now.

It took me a while to actually find this on CNN's site. You might think that it would be important, but I guess Mel Gibson, Zero-Gravity Surgery, and puppy power are all a little more important.

And I must say yet again, that The Daily Show got it right. Fox News' Chris Wallace tried to pull some shit (I don't curse here very often, but this got me so angry) with Bill Clinton on Sunday. They said they were going to ask him questions about the Clinton Global Initiative, but then jumped subjects and started asking him why he didn't take out Osama Bin Laden, and blah blah. Bill Clinton got pissed first, and then recovered and rattled off item after item of things that he did in the last couple years of his time in office. So The Daily Show got together all these clips of how the news programs (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX, pretty much everyone) reported only about how rattled and "combative" that he got. And all those "news sources" didn't pay any attention to the massive points of information that Clinton did lay out there. He lobbed some serious firepower at the current administration, and no one has even raised an eyebrow!

Any thoughts?

Here is some knowledge:

She laughed a lot.

So Michelle brought home a hot pie from McDonalds this evening, which we split. It was OK. I was a little put off by the color and consistency. I only took 3 or 4 bites until I took a long look at what I was actually eating.

At that time, Michelle filled me in that it was a hot pumpkin pie, not the hot apple pie that I had in mind. Thank Goodness.

That made the difference in taste and flavor all right.

My attempt to impersonate Jon Stewart:

And our next news item this evening: Yale has joined the small list of prestigious educational institutions to offer videos, transcripts and recommended book lists online free of charge. Yale's yearly tuition, room and board average $46,000, but this program will begin by offering only seven classes to choose from.

Naturally the coursework is not valid for actual credits, but the Yale President (President of Yale, not the President from Yale) said this in a written statement: "This is a wonderful opportunity for us to share a vital and central part of the Yale experience with those who, for whatever reason, are not in a position to pursue a Yale education at first hand."

For whatever reason? I think that is brilliant Mr President. But I think it should read: "to share a vital and central part of the Yale experience with those who, for 46,000 reasons, are not in a position to pursue a Yale education at first hand,"

Music and stuff

I had a bit of an awakening this morning. I guess you could count that as two awakenings.

I was recollecting NPR's story about some tapes that some guy (Shel Silverstein's nephew) was going through because they might have contained some Gram Parsons tunes. It turns out that they turned out to contain a few old Woodie Guthrie songs. One of which was a live recording of "This Land is Your Land".

But it wasn't until this morning that I made a few connections. Mainly about sarcasm, how that song is a really irony, how this beautiful and large country can't really be called "OUR LAND" because it is so much bigger and more wondrous then we can stomach. But then that thread led me to another thing that bothered me, which was that it wasn't until recently that I broke ground on that particular "ah-ha" moment, (helped by the song 100 Million by Sunny Day Real Estate) and so I started to feel a little uneasy about the fact that there is probably the majority of an up and coming generation that: 1) are listening to Rihanna, Britney and Ciara, so their musical taste buds are destroyed; 2) are confused by irony and sarcasm; 3) Because of texting, cellphones and 100 MB/s internet connections think that California or Florida is just around the corner. Is it possible that these young adults and teenagers might not realize, and mistake that Woodie Guthrie song for the words it speaks, and not be able to hear the meaning behind them?

The lyrics from the Sunny Day Real Estate song goes: 100 million/fences around us/can we own everything?/including the moon and the sun and the stars?

My first embedded video, so it's a good one.

This is the reason why I love The Daily Show and Jon Stewart. Perfect!

Some of the things that I learned this week:

I learned several things this week, here is just a few of them:

1) Cleaning and janitorial people are the most under-appreciated, under-recognized, and under-paid people on the planet.

2) Some people are able to block-out or ignore the smell of boys' locker room.

3) I am not able to be one of those people, I quit after one night.

4) I am hoping that I will be able to continue to appreciate those people out there that work long overnight hours sweeping and mopping so that the rest of the community doesn't have to pay attention to them.

5) I was able to call a computer place that had offered me a full-time job at the same time as the school offered me the cleaning job. I asked if they would object to me working part-time.

6) A $8000 Dell Server weights 150 pounds.

It won't make sense, but just read this anyway:

I just thought something kind of funny. There was a commercial for a show that is to air on Sunday, and the network that is airing it is presenting it "Without interruption." I just thought that it was pretty funny that when the network wants to they will air a show without commercials, and hype it up as being special. But every other day they cram 15-20 minutes of commercials into every hour of programming. Those shows are always being interrupted all the time.

Obviously (because he isn't holding the dead man's bar down) he isn't operating with the blades running, but he pushed that thing up and down our yard for fifteen minutes. I had to distract him with something else. 

It isn't every day that you can see one of these crawling on your house and show it to your kids.