Closing Comments

I've never really understood comments being closed except for technical reasons involving bandwidth or spam, but upon reflection it seems that such a policy can have positive results.

Yesterday and Today

A Notable Clarification

Ordinarily in the West an expression of hatred for the common citizens of another country should wind up with a resignation. In Iran it's precisely the reverse.

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme religious leader on Friday rejected the notion that his country was a friend to the Israeli people, but he also called on critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop using the issue to undermine him.

[...]

Ayatollah Khamenei’s comments appeared to be a fresh sign of support for Mr. Ahmadinejad, who has come under increasing pressure for remarks by his vice president for tourism, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, who said last month for a second time that Iran was a friend of the Israeli people.

Mo Funny

She Was a DANCE Professor

Reader Mail re: Fake Credentials [NRO Staff]

Another professor caught without a degree, which went unnoticed for years? Maybe it's about time people started admitting that degrees are essentially worthless pieces of paper, indicative of nothing, and that one can pursue and successfully maintain high-level positions quite well without one. The scandal here is not that the professor lacked a degree, but that she, and the rest of us, need one to begin with.

—Micah B. Haber

Dear dumbass: please don't attempt to build a bridge or perform surgery. Background here.

Appealing to the Base

An Important Announcement

Framing

I think I am meant to assume that this gorgeous girl is probably as dumb as a fucking post:



All right, it's a UK newspaper and the Daily Mail at that so nothing should be expected, but pity the poor file-photo model.

Disturbing

Potential faces:

Basketball News

Via the wonderful Patricia Bender:

The NBA fined Darrell Arthur (Mem) and Mario Chalmers (Mia) $20,000 each for getting kicked out of the NBA rookie program. The two refused to leave their hotel room during a fire alarm and hotel security entered the room to force them to leave and discovered two women and the smell of marijuana. The two players were kicked out of the program for violating program rules which does not allow the rookies to have visitors. The two denied using marijuana and there was no physical evidence of marijuana recovered from the room.

Getting fined before playing a single game is pretty awesome.

A Life Lesson

Leave not poop in punchbowl X
Lest ye lose rock and drugs and sex.
Instead leave poop in punchbowl Y
And be acclaimed a stand-up guy.

My Palin Name

Spamming with Soul

Here's to San Antonio Lawyer, for keeping it minimally real.

More Personal Weakness

This is pretty entertaining.

Fuck You Creditors!

I suppose it would be awful if everything I ever knew was suddenly destroyed but it'd prove that maxing out all available credit was the right thing to do.

What I'm Listening To

Research

I really don't know what to say about this.

Remedios Varo

I suppose this is a still life.

What Other Country?

Mark Steyn:

“…First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, “all-American”, but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew?

What country in the world produces pilots who hunt pelican and serve up your jerboa swirl?

What country in the world produces gamekeepers who hunt doe and serve up no crow bruschetta?

What country in the world produces patent examiners who hunt gazelle or serve up a kind of boisterous lovebird sauce?

What ambitious country in the world produces haberdashers who hunt warthog and serve up one more kangaroo?

What country in the world produces seamstresses who hunt porpoise and serve up a kind of optimal canary smoothie?

What country in the arbitrary world produces guitarists who hunt hare and serve up notorious guinea pig ketchup?

What country in the ephemeral world produces tutors who hunt hog and serve up a kind of zebu custard?

What country in the world produces miners who hunt duck and serve up one adult steer paprikash?

What earnest country in the world produces exterminators who hunt dog and serve up their own snake fizz?

What country in the rambling world produces notaries who hunt anteater or serve up a kind of mustang loaf?

What extraordinary country in the deep world produces materials scientists who hunt newt or serve up one less dog water?

What country in the world produces pediatricians who hunt quagga and serve up your lizard couscous?

What wide-eyed country in the bad world produces fbi agents who hunt civet and serve up the complex oryx chili?

What country in the world produces paleontologists who hunt wildcat and serve up my own buffalo polenta?

What dainty country in the world produces welders who hunt gemsbok or serve up one more giraffe steak?

What patriotic country in the beany world produces illusionists who hunt panda and serve up one more duckbill hamantaschen?

What country in the careful world produces industrial engineers who hunt marmoset and serve up every extroverted platypus smoothie?

What crispy country in the great world produces press officers who hunt otter or serve up one less rat borscht?

What auburn country in the happy world produces aviators who hunt gemsbok and serve up at least one phony cheetah cake?

JanusNode Code

Requires a few files in existence, like Animals and jobs and so forth.

100 Subject(NewRule) < assign(a1,so_articles) 100 > < assign(stew1,RecipePreparations) 100 > < assign(moose1,Animals) 100 > < assign(moose2,Animals) 100 > < assign(other1,adjectives) 100 > < assign(other2,adjectives) 100 > < assign(other3,adjectives) 100 > "What" 100 < get(other1) 50 > "country in the" 100 < get(other2) 50 > "world produce" 100 "s" 100 jobs 100 "s" 100 "who hunt" 100 < get(moose2) 100 > {"and" 100 | "or" 100 } "serve up" 100 s_articles 100 < get(other3) 50 > < get(moose1) 100 > < get(stew1) 100 > "?" 100 return 100 return 100

DON'T TELL ME THE ENDING YOU ASSHOLES