Dilbert gets it right

Ever wonder what it would be like to get called to appear in front of one of those congressional hearings? I have, and I've also had dreams of what I would say. Dilbert captures it quite nicely.

One more

From the Bob and Brian morning show in Milwaukee, talking with their old friend, sports guy Steve Czaban. Czabe has some ideas for the new Cubs' owners, including a name change and a stadium relocation. Gold, pure gold...

(Look for the 1-23-2009 Czaban podcast)

http://www.1029thehog.com/Bob---Brian-On-Demand---Podcast/2560707

Let the season begin!

This is the famous Lee Elia rant about the Cubs' fan base. Nearly everything I loathe about the Cubs can be found here.

h/t: Nick Sloan

Well...

Here's something that you knew was going to happen.

Amy Fisher's a Stripper

Tuesday Night Bottles

Tacos! Tacos! Tacos!

There's a little place in Westport called El Rancho. A Mexican place, it has some of the most authentic Mexican food I can find in town.







Influenced by Anthony Bourdain No Reservations, a couple of weeks ago I decided to try out their tacos. Real tacos, not the Taco Bell style. Soft corn tortillas, with pulled pork (pulled pork, man! Pulled pork!), onions, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime juice. Oh, it's good, my friends.


Delicious and filling. It's rare that I can eat all four, although today I was hungry enough to do just that. I think the owners and staff, who are all expats, find it amusing that this gringo comes in and always orders his tacos traditional style.

Yes, I have a thing for pork.

Calvin and Hobbes gets our economic situation just right

Since I don't want to post the comic directly on this blog, for purely legal reasons, I will direct you to this link.

Amazing how a comic strip can be so much more forthright, honest, and direct than any politician, pundit, or special-interest spokesperson out there. Pretty much our economic situation in a nutshell.

Obama's new dollar bill

h/t: The People's Cube

The Nanny State strikes again

Well, the geniuses in Jeff City have taken up a bill to ban Jello shots, kegs, beer bongs, and styrofoam containers from Missouri rivers. Apparently, they're worried that the children are being exposed to nudity and drunkeness on Missouri's rivers.

"Senate Bill 2, sponsored by Republican Sen. Delbert Scott, (I hate it when Republicans do this shit. The State demonizing SUV's is bad, but let's let the State dictate how to spend our weekends. It's for the Children!) would ban beer kegs, Styrofoam coolers, Jell-O containing alcohol and beer bongs used for binge drinking on rivers. The legislation also would prohibit the exchange of Mardi Gras bead necklaces for displays of nudity.

Supporters of the bill say intoxication and nudity are becoming commonplace on Missouri's best canoeing rivers, especially the Niangua River in Dallas County. (Which is why people choose to spend their weekends there, dumbasses.)

In testimony to the Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Monday, Scott said families and church groups are being scared off "because of drunkenness and nudity on the streams." (Then don't go there. See? Freedom!)

Scott's bill would adopt guidelines already in place for federally protected rivers like the Jacks Forks River in Shannon County that prohibit drinking paraphernalia he described as "high octane instruments to get drunk quick."

The senator from Lowry City is not proposing banning alcohol on rivers altogether, just regulating the paraphernalia and mass consumption of booze in hopes of cutting down on the number of women who drunkenly expose themselves for beads -- a popular pastime on Bourbon Street this time of the year.

"The buzz that we hear up in our area is you cannot (canoe) on weekends with children," said Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee's Summit, who chairs the committee. "There's so many drunks out. People don't think it's safe to be on the rivers Friday, Saturday and Sunday."

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Here's the deal. If you know drunken hijinks and nudity are going on and you don't like that sort of thing, THEN DON'T GO THERE. Especially don't bring your kids down there. It's like going to a strip club and demanding that the girls put their clothes back on.

I propose a bill that says that any idiot parents or church groups that expose their kids to that sort of thing be arrested for child abuse.

There are hundreds of rivers that have campgrounds that offer float trips in Missouri. Surely there are more than a couple that offer nudity- and drunk-free weekends for the precious tots.

Besides, I've been on these trips plenty of times. It's not like there's anarchy and chaos. People get drunk, women flash their breasts (oh, the humanity! We must protect children from the evils of teh boobies!), and you end the afternoon at the campground and pass out in your tent.

Plus, it's not like the cops are really there to enforce the laws that are already in place against public nudity and drunkeness. The cops I've seen are usually hitting on the females and busting stoners with less than a couple grams of weed to make up the county's budget.

All this is is a chance for the State to get itself invovled with regulating fairly innocent behavior that it doesn't agree with. Dems and Republicans are both guilty of this abuse of power. That's why the best thing to do is to reduce the size and scope of the government. It's the only way to keep the government off our backs.

My new favorite song

Just goes to show how out of popular culture I am. It's a product of getting old. Anyways, my new favorite song is Revelations by Audioslave.