Good thing I haven't had breakfast because I would have thrown it up in my mouth.My hate on for some humans continues.

Did he just call people on food stamps or receiving public assistance "stray animals"???!!! As in not actually human beings?

Pretty much, later he said he didn't, but he did.

he said giving them aid without requirements (and we all know that is EXACTLY how it works, just free stuff with no requirements) was LIKE feeding stray animals, you know, cause both then take the free food and go breed. totally different than calling them animals.

Pretty much, later he said he didn't, but he did.

I love it when people do that. It's almost as if he said, "People who receive government assistance should be shot like dogs in the street. Now I'm not saying they should be shot like dogs in the street - I would never say that."

Charlie Brown TIE Fighter

What do you get when you mash up Charles M. Schulz’s comic Peanuts with Star Wars? Behold the Charlie Brown TIE Fighter by Tom Torrey....

Read this from Dana this morning and laughed.

If this game goes into overtime, I won't be able to handle it.

We had a great night. Walked up to our local bar to watch the game and a bunch of our friends randomly showed up to support us (including our landlady).

My cousin got to go to her first playoff game, and my other cousin sat behind Tracy Porter's parents.

I cannot believe-my "I Believe" sign notwithstanding-we are going to the Superbowl. Dude. My absenteeish dad called me this morning (he dosen't ever call on my birthday).

Must be mighty chilly in hell.

Don't you hate it when this happens? Children's Fantasy

I am really, really upset about what that lieutenant governor said. I actually looked up on his website and he is a member of a Methodist Church. I would assume, through that that he is at least nominally Christian. I don't even understand how someone who believes that Jesus Christ is the son of God can say "lets not feed the children unless their parent go to PTA meetings". It is stuff like this that makes me want to make a website devoted to refuting things that assholes like this say WITH the sayings of Jesus Christ.

Methodists don't generally get that crazy.

Andrew Sullivan's blog has been doing a series of posts and letters about "drug addiction in the heartland". This letter from a reader is interesting:

Addiction In The Heartland, Ctd

There's one other factor in rural drug use. There's nothing to do in small towns. Growing up in New Mexico, we were bored. When you're a teenager, you can only watch so much TV. My best friend and I would get high on meth and drive around all night just talking, but we felt great because we were high. All of my friends and a huge chunk of my high school did a lot of drugs and had a lot of sex. When I moved to Seattle and talked about my past drug experience, my new friends looked at me like I was Tony Montana.

Genuinely puzzled, I asked if they'd ever done drugs, and the responses were generally along the lines of, "No, I was too busy with my theater group/after school job/non-traditional sports team/other socially acceptable activity." Weird as is, I think Seattle's dumbass dodgeball league on Capitol Hill is keeping more kids off drugs than all the efforts of all past Drug Czars combined.

It's true! Growing up in/near a small town in the heartland is boring! Good thing my home town had no meth (or at least that I didn't know where to find it).