Thinking Unenslaved

This week, I’ve planned a “solo” show, which is actually designed to elicit callers-in. Yeah, I’m sneaky like that! You’re stuck with me, in other words, but you’re not really just stuck with me. Luckily, though, thanks to the not-so-mysterious workings of my brain, my famously notorious co-hosts will probably be dialing in anyway. That’s because I’m focusing the show recent articles by some of my favorite bloggers, a couple of whom are, guess what….Paul and Kile!

As I set up the show, I have selected recent contributions from Paul Fidalgo ( http://bit.ly/fpRvbO ), Martin Pribble ( http://bit.ly/gGE4Va ), and Kile Jones ( http://gawd.us/hEl7Lx ). I’ve asked these contributors to dial in while I’m discussing their content. Martin may not be able to join us since he’s in Australia, though.

A good portion of the show will be a follow-up to the end of last week’s show, which we didn’t get enough time to spend on. I’m working on cleaning up the “management” portion of what I do, but in the mean-time, I felt the combined topics of Raising Hellions and Atheist Evangelism (under the general umbrella of Teaching Atheism) were worthy of more formative discussion. The articles I’ve selected play heavily into this topic.

Please join me at 10pm EST this Wednesday for a healthy discussion of these topics!

photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

“…why Ah hadta come ta yer fambly reunion?”

meanwhile, Laura checks out the well-hung gentleman in the grass skirt….

photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

President Bush reconsiders having left his diapers in the limo after making another meal of American values.

(my humblest apology to Watertiger. i admire you deeply. the title just couldn’t be resisted)

photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

“Uh….’Live long an’….whu? T’udder way? Damn, this presidentin’ is hard work! Fuck you, Shattner!”

photo credit: AP Photo/Jerome Delay

Read the Custom Blue Screen

photo credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

“Danger. The Surgeon General has determined that the consumption of Mad Dog leads to impaired cognition, slurred speech, and platform inconsistency.”

photo credit: Linda Davidson – The Washington Post

“…always go for the black guys.”

photo credit: Lois Raimondo – The Washington Post

“Hrm….there’s a Senate vote today. I could head back to Washington or…zzzzzzzzzzzzz….”

photo credit: Kevin Clark – The Washington Post

Vapidly overdone singer “Jewel” fawns over Senator Barack Obama during a meet-and-greet session. She immediately returned to her studio to write a pretentious song about how she “gets” minorities.

photo credit: AFP/Joe Klamar

“A cook at Guantanamo Bay prepares a special ‘Tossed Inmate Salad’ in preparation for a visit from Vice President Cheney.”

photo credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

“Oh, heavenly, sir. But don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll find yours in a minute!”

photo credit: Christopher Morris / VII for TIME

“John McCain reminds the not-so-Independent Senator from Connecticut exactly where his forehead belongs for the remainder of the campaign season.”

photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty

“I’ve got a box of these in the dog carrier on top of my car. Everybody grab yourself a stack, and remember, my name’s not Huckabee!”

photo credit: Troy Maben – AP

Wait a minute! Is it possible that Jenna has a least a shred of common sense? No, no such luck, it seems:

Obama supporter Stacy Falkner of Idaho shows off her favorite hat inside Boise’s Qwest Arena before the start of the Ada County Democratic Caucus. Several thousand people were expected to attend the event.

photo credit: Preston Keres – The Washington Post

“…apparently reflected the overall interest of Republican campaign staffers.”

photo credit: REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

photo credit: David Burnett / Contact Press Images for TIME

“…donated $50,000 to Hillary’s campaign, and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.”

No doubt, she’s calling Daddikins right now to get this shit sorted out.

photo credit: REUTERS/Shealah Craighead/The White House/Handout

“Yes, ma’am. I know who your husband is. Which is exactly my point. These seats are reserved for honored guests.”

photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

“(it’s all in the punctuation)”

photo credit: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo

The former “Savior of New York” apparently has landed himself a temporary gig in Rio for Carnival.

You’re A Prayer for Owen Meany!
by John Irving
Despite humble and perhaps literally small beginnings, you inspire
faith in almost everyone you know. You are an agent of higher powers, and you manifest
this fact in mysterious and loud ways. A sense of destiny pervades your every waking
moment, and you prepare with great detail for destiny fulfilled. When you speak, IT
SOUNDS LIKE THIS!

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

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utter tripe and codswallop, of course. but i’ll come back to read this from time to time and pretend like it makes me feel good about myself or something….

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found at Mock, Paper, Scissors, who got it from Comrade Kevin.

photo credit: Erik Van ‘T Woud / AFP / Getty

1. Britney Spears’ new boyfriend is seen here retrieving her career for another empty, meaningless, night on the town.

2. Anna Nicole Smith reportedly found a new boyfriend today. He’s a real wheeler-dealer.

3. An attempt to resurrect Janet Jackson’s relevance for this year’s SuperBowl was thankfully curtailed by crowded sidewalks.

yes, yes, shameless recycling, i know. it’s part of what makes life worth living, isn’t it?

photo credit: Eric Draper/White House/Handout/Files/Reuters

“…to find out if he’d be more popular if he drove around with Barney on the top of his car.”

photo credit: Erik Van ‘T Woud / AFP / Getty

1. A worker for the Thompson campaign returns the ex-candidate to the cemetery where he and Jeri first met.

2. Once again, it appears Rudy Giuliani is using campaign funds for his personal benefit. Yesterday, a campaign worker was photographed delivering new bedroom furniture to the Giuliani home.

3. An unidentified White House employee was photographed early Thursday morning while belatedly returning Michael Chertoff to his crypt for the day.

i seem to get more hits when i don’t post. so, obviously, i felt it prudent to post about this subject so as not to get too many hits.

of course, if i really cared about hits on the inside, i wouldn’t blog. some of my friends mention off-hand how many hundreds of hits they’ve had on some days, and all i can do is chuckle at my consistently-less-than-a-hundred-per-day.

but i still find it funny that i get more hits on a day like today: today being the day after a day on which i didn’t post.

conversely, until i met Mrs. Other, i always managed to attract the weird ones, so it shouldn’t be surprising that i continue to do so.

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i am typing to you today from a new computer (about which i should theoretically be happy, but i’m not, because i’m an ungrateful bastard), sitting in an office in a house we are now trying to sell. i detail the gory details of the details here. sorry, after watching the past several primary thingies, i figured some intentional redundancy would be redundantly redundant, so i got all redundant about it. anyway, in a fit of temper this morning, i even compiled a short list of my fine art work that was taken on or from this property. because even though i’m starting to get caught up in Mrs. Other’s excitement about the move and her new job and all that, the very idea of moving again is about as thrilling to me as slowly inserting a corkscrew into my frontal lobe while listening to republican campaign speeches and standing on a fire-ant hill with honey spread all over my genetalia.

on the plus side, however, i got a new computer, i guess.

i am now looking at some of these photographs — especially the bulk of them from off Yahoo! News, and i can’t help but think to myself that holy shit, these bucking fastards seriously need to bump the resolution on the photos they make available for public consumption. gah.

but fairlane, DCup, if you thought Chuck Norris’ hairpiece was intolerable on whatever monitor you’re using, you should see how it looks on a 30″ widescreen. holy crap. actually, in this detail, i have a sneaking suspicion it’s just a bad haircut, but still….he goes out in public. kinda scary.

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at any rate, there will be light posting here for a bit. i have more software to get installed, calibrations to run, data to transfer, and, well, a house to sell. which means that i should occasionally have to disappear whenever a realtor has someone to bring over, and we all know that will only happen at the most inconvenient times. i’ll be sure to leave select blogs open on the monitors (five of them) when they do.

at least, so long as they don’t impede any would-be buyers. it’s not exactly like the grand central station of progressive thought out here….

~d~