Today, Leslie and I have been married for two years. Or as my parents used to say, two glorious years.
Happy anniversary, Leslie. You make me very happy. I love you.
Author: Kent
Democracy grows out of the barrel of a gun.
I love love love the social realist style of Soviet propoganda, so I think this was made just for me:
from Kirk Anderson, Minnesota, via slate.com: http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/PCbest30.asp
UPDATE: You can purchase these now at: http://www.cafepress.com/molotov_comix. Nice that he split them up into several different posters.
About Atlanta, a rant, nothing new, please move on
I was going to post this on Metroblogs, but I decided maybe I shouldn’t drag my fellow bloggers there into a feud with Joy Johnston. 
When I first moved here and was looking for information about the city, the Atlanta “blog” from about.com worked its way into my rss reader.
Perhaps its bad form to moan about another local “blog,” but since there is no way to post comments on that site, I am left with no recourse.
What a piece of junk. I don’t know why I haven’t deleted its feed yet, but there it sits, and I dutifully read the new entries. about.com is an internet dead end. A black hole. All the links link to another page on about.com, which link to another page on about.com.
I’m always looking for local bands to check out, and today there was a mention of one I hadn’t heard of (I haven’t heard of many), 13 Stories. Great, I think, I’ll check out their website and see what they are. Not from about.com, I’m not. I’m going to keep checking out the same page on about.com. Over and over. I can’t escape without (the horror) actually having to type “13 Stories” into google and searching myself.
Maybe I’m lazy. If looking for basic functionality on a website is lazy, then I’m lazy. Perhaps I am too picky. I’m sorry, when your link reads “Visit Their Web Site” I want it to *gasp* go to their website.
I know everyone knows this about about.com. I’m basically saying “McDonald’s hamburgers are made from soy!”
And I still haven’t gone to the band’s website.
It’s a shame to move Pac-Man down
But I have to.
Apparently one of my posts over at Atlanta Metblogs pissed off a local Boy Scout troop leader. Steve Barton, of Troop 764 in Dunwoody, to be exact.
I bashed the Boy Scouts of America for discriminating against homosexuals and for a recent scandal here in Atlanta in which they inflated their statistics for inner city memberships so they could get more funding from the United Way. Even after they got caught, they still asked for the $1 million dollars that they would have gotten for inner city programs because of their inflated statistics. That takes a lot of guts.
In my opinion, they are lucky to get anything from the United Way in the first place. Many local United Ways cut off BSA funding over their discrimination against gays and athiests. I know it happened in Philadelphia when I was there.
Its sad, the Boy Scouts have the resources to do so much good for boys, especially inner city boys, who may not have the positive male role models that suburban kids have. And despite what Mr. Barton says (“Scouts teaches nothing bad about homosexuals”), they do in fact teach that homosexuals are dangerous, subversive, and prone to child molestation by not welcoming them into their organization. They discount the fact that it is possible to be gay and be a positive role model for children. Every homosexual is a bad seed in their eyes.
I wonder what the statistics are on child molestation comparing straight men to gay men.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been as condescending in my response to Mr. Barton, but I couldn’t help myself.
Pac-Man!
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I was a huge fan of the Saints trading up in the draft and taking Pac-Man Jones. Good thing I’m not the GM, I guess. |
Karl Rove’s Plumbing Service
That’s right. The Tuesday update is all about trivia. Leslie and I went by ourselves. Everyone else crapped out. We weren’t sure if we should stay at first, and did pretty poorly at first. In the end, however, our 2-person team in a field of nine teams finished in 3rd place.
Not too shabby at all for two people. Thanks for nothing team. When we drink our winnings, the last ten dollars in all Leslie and mine.
New reaches of dorkhood
I’m now an official blogger on the Atlanta Metroblogging site: http://atlanta.metblogs.com/.
Its a neat little site for local info and discussions of what’s going on with the city. They have bloggers in several different towns, including New Orleans, for you folks back home.
Librarian Avengers
Librarian Avengers
People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.
Cute.
Chester’s Big Adventure
Last night we dominated Trivia Night.
Going into the final question, where you can wager 15 points, we were ahead of the competition by 14 points. We bet 2 points, got the question right, and got first place by 1 point.
We had a debate over what is the best way to be a poor loser, betting 15 points and utterly destroying the competition by the maximum amount of points, or only betting enough to win, and rubbing it in the faces of the other teams that we didn’t have to do much to defeat them.
I voted for the latter, equating it to taking a knee when you are winning in the last 45 seconds of a football game. Although, I still felt bad when they announced the final score. It was like the other team tried so hard, but they just couldn’t do it because we tripped them. Then we got the $50 and I didn’t care about the other teams’ feelings anymore.
Grand total winnings in house cash to date: $200. We are saving it up for a big blowout.
$12,415,267.53
ESPN.com – NFL – Louisiana meets payment deadline to keep Saints
NEW ORLEANS — The state handed the New Orleans Saints a check for $12,415,267.53 Tuesday, its annual multimillion dollar payment to keep the team in Louisiana, according to Louisiana Superdome official Bill Curl.
Poor Louisiana. They still have to pay this back, and where is it going to come from? They can’t take it from education, there’s nothing left to take? I guess you LA folks will start seeing some new taxes. What they should do is tax auto dealerships.