Have I mentioned lately how much I hate that pro athletes are competing in the Olympics?
I really don't. I hate having pros who aren't there to take it seriously as a competition (as has happened in some past years in men's basketball), because that's just shitty sportsmanship, but more broadly, people who make a living at their sports? Not a problem at all.
What I hate is the goddamn Home Depot ads about how many athletes work there. It's really nothing to brag about that we say the team is representing us and then expect them to stay in peak training and condition while they make $8 an hour at a part-time big-box retail job.
Jack Cafferty is pretty scathing about McCain and his responses at the Saddleback forum.
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Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.
He was asked "if evil exists." His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to "the gates of hell." That was it.
He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.
One after another, McCain's answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.
I watched it, and he is right about McCain's answers. Obama treated the event like a conversation while McCain treated it like a campaign stop.
I'm kinda thinking that McCain's approach was the better one though. It was what makes Bush good in debates. He says on message and hammers the same themes over and over, which imprints his message and makes him seem very resolute. Maybe there is value in thoughtful answers and I don't give people in general enough credit.
Addy will self destruct.
Got it! I should get that in the mail this week. Probably USPS, but if it's easier for you to get it via UPS, I can do that, too. Any preference?
Would any woman wear this? The WineRack
This comfortable sports-style bra contains a special hooter-enhancing polyurethane bladder that can be filled with your drink of choice. Simply slip it on, fill up with wine or whatever and wear it under your regular clothes. You can then indulge in a spot of stealth drinking via the WineRack's adjustable drinking tube. With a rack like this, girls' nights out will never be the same again. As for boys' nights out, well, the mind boggles.
Well, it'd make sneaking booze into events where it's prohibited much easier....
Would any woman wear this? The WineRack
Maybe when I was in Marching Chiefs and we had games that were really cold but... no
Not even then. We had slim flasks that we were able to sneak in.
Ewwwwwww
I really don't. I hate having pros who aren't there to take it seriously as a competition (as has happened in some past years in men's basketball), because that's just shitty sportsmanship, but more broadly, people who make a living at their sports? Not a problem at all.
That echos my feeling about it as well. Just send the best and don't worry about if athletes are really amateur or de facto professional.
I'll confess to having gone to a sporting event with a camelback full of wine once. I'd be concerned about visible breast shrinkage with this one.
I'd be concerned about visible breast shrinkage with this one.
Yeah, it's sorta' the opposite of beer goggles....
The standard model of particle physics explained in terms of reality TV.
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