Faster Than Metamucil

And if you don't get the caption at the bottom of the photo, look in the background.

Endlessly Entertaining

I'm not able to ask the founders and builders of Washington, D.C., personally, but I'm willing to bet that they didn't intend for the nation's capital to be an endless source of entertainment in the "Gawd you people are stupid" way.  Yet so it has been for decades.  Of course the high point was Mayor Marion "The bit*ch set me up!" Barry's little bust as he was toking crack with a prostitute.

He's still in office.  Any office he can get.  And D.C. residents vote for him no matter what office he runs for.

Now he's got a book out, and it appears that he's just as capable of dumb statements during book interviews as Hillary Clinton is.  Seems he was asked about a tax that's being considered - a surcharge of some sort on health clubs.  It's being called the "yoga tax."  Barry is against it - yogurt is healthy and we shouldn't discourage people from eating it.

D.C.'s leadership.  And now you know why it doesn't get to play with real states.

Wait. Rewind that.

"Washington—Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein's premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said."

But I thought Saddam didn't have any chemical weapons?

Of course, we do have satellite photos of trucks swarming and leaving those weapons factories in the months before the U.S. invaded.  So these old ones are just the ones that got left behind as they moved them out of the country.

h/t Wall Street Journal

If One Has To, They All Do

So the gummit has smacked at the Washington Redskins because of their "offensive" name.

Huh.

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The name comes from the Choctaw "Okla" and "humma", which translates to "Red people".  Oklahoma is second only to Alaska in percentage population that is Native American.

And looky here at the home page for Red Mesa High School, which is located on a Navajo reservation in Arizona.

Bet a whole bunch of other examples can be found with a web search, as well.  Seems to me that if Dan Snyder has to change his team's name then there's a whole bunch of other changes will have to be done, as well. I mean, it would only be fair, and we're all about fairness, aren't we?

h/t Jeffrey Kuhner over at WRKO

The War

So, now it comes out that a prominent Republican candidate once defended a man who was accused of raping a 12 year old girl.  That's not such a big deal - people need defense lawyers and we do try to presume innocent until proven guilty.

The big deal is that the candidate was not only sure that the man was guilty, that he HAD raped the girl, but got him off with the type of shenanigans that make people loathe defense lawyers.  Including attacking the 12 year old victim.  Which apparently the lawyer found quite funny when speaking of it in an interview.

Once more the Republican disdain for women is on display.  Once more their war on women is highlighted.  Once more the Republicans...

Oh.  Wait.

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Nine Thoughts to Ponder

   
  9
  Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
 
  8
  Life is sexually transmitted.
 
  7
  Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
 
  6
  Men have two emotions: hungry and horny, and they can't tell them
  apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.
 
  5
  Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to
  use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe
  years.
 
  4
  Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital,
  dying of nothing.
 
  3
  All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention
  to criticism.
 
  2
  In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world
  is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
 
  1
  Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today might burn
  your ass tomorrow..........
 
  ...and as someone recently said to me:
  Don't worry about old age, it doesn't last long.