Body Language

No, not that kind--well, maybe later. I've heard that jewelry works.


A funny ha-ha from bounced NR scion and current semi-erect Obama admirer, Chris Buckley: http://www1.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-17/obamas-awkward-group-photo/1/





I don't expect the boys and girls over at NR to ever welcome the exiled heir back, but he's a curious lad and clever with all them fancy words and he doesn't really give a shit who he's skewering, whether its whiney liberals or knuckle draggers.

Baylor Proud

I must admit failure as a Baylor parent. Last night my son informed me that today was "favorite college" day at his school, and he asked if I had an old Baylor tee-shirt, polo shirt or sweat shirt that he could wear.

First of all, he came to me because he knew he didn't have one. Never has. Hell, he has never had anything with Baylor, BU, Thee University, Bears, or any form of my alma mater's logo stitched or pasted on it. No diapers, onesies, knit caps, pjs, tats - nothing.

Shit, I'm surprised he even knows I spent time there.

Secondly, I pretty much knew right away that I didn't have anything either. I had to hem and haw and stumble around like Bush answering a tough question on nuclear proliferation. Finally I told him I would look in the attic to see if I had anything from my younger days, knowing full well I had nothing left from 4 years in Waco besides a frat pin, a really ugly pledge jersey, some pictures, a few sordid memories he sure isn't going to hear anything about, and a diploma that - for all intents and purposes - I should have used to wipe my ass.

So, I just let it drop. Fortunately for me, he didn't ask again this morning, and just went with a blue polo. Heck, I couldn't even find a decent green or gold shirt to suggest. That schoolyard's going to be covered up with maroon and burnt orange, and my poor kids going to be walking around with nothing to show for my four years of labor. Maybe they'll just assume we cheer for the local boys over at SMU.

Oh, the shame.

Bending Over

That's what Pinkel and his young gentlemens will probably spend a great deal of Saturday doing, at least according to our friends at EDSBS: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/

Who knows--maybe the Sooners aren't in to that barnyard stuff and won't be properly motivated.

Excellent stuff. Also, the Auburn smack is delicious. Reminds me of my Aunt Syble's biscuits. She lived northwest of there in Anniston and spent most of her waking hours in her kitchen, dragging on Winston's and sipping warm Schlitz while swatting flies and casting dispersions on my Uncle Hugh. A large can of lard was always nearby and it went into everything. I'm almost certain her cast iron skillet had a flame underneath 24/7. Good eatin'. Uncle Hugh played a lot of solitaire when he wasn't nursing on a fine batch of Early Times. He was once a great basketball player out of the little town of Forney. In his junior year, his team was invited to a tournament in Atlanta and were feted at a banquet at a fancy hotel. The first course was brought out-- a salad served on a doily. So, the country ass boys from Forney looked at each other and jointly decided that cleaning your plate meant just that, so down went the salad, doily and all. I'm reasonably certain that the servers, undoubtedly black men from Atlanta, laughed their asses off for a good fifty or so years afterward.

Change is in the Air

EDSBS is reporting that Tuberville is done at Auburn: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/

I had no idea that Tuberville shilled for Golden Flake or even that the company still existed. As a kid, I visited Alabama often (mom's family) and billboards and commercials featuring Bear Bryant extolling the virtues of those taters were everywhere. They're called "crisps" over in that England place. On trains, these pathetic guys go up and down the aisles with a "crisp lorry" or cart or whatever they call it, lisping out "Crisps" to uninterested passengers. All I know is that when it's all said and done, I won't have shovelled shit in in Louisiana or sold potato products on the route between Wimbledon and King's Cross.

Full dislosure: I have shovelled shit in Texas. Lots of it.

Uh, Ralph?

Mrs. Bush says they're moving to Big D: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/03/lady-says-bushes-moving-dallas/

Probably need something a little bigger than a double wide.

Bad Day in Bombay

An interesting piece by an American trapped during the terrorist seige in Bombay that depicts both the bravery of some average Indians and the dynamics of being caught in such a situation: http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/01/mumbai-terror-taj-oped-cx_mp_1201pollack.html

Terrorists have been around for a long time, notably in that part of the world, though they have gone by different names. Everything that I have read suggests that the methods employed by the British Raj during the 19th century were ultimately the most effective in stamping out such behavior (see the aftermath of the Cawnpore Massacre). As for this most recent batch of scum, may their remains be sewed up in pigskin and thrown to the bottom of the most vile septic field in India. For the lone terrorist survivor, the Tommies were once fond of tying them across the barrel of a piece of artillery for a proper sendoff into the land of 72 year old virgins.

New York Times Editorial

I'm not holding my breath waiting for the NYT to refer to the "Abortion Lobby" one day.

Editorial

The Gun Lobby’s Loss

...The gun lobby has long intimidated politicians with its war chest and its trumpeted ability to deliver single-issue voters, especially in tight races. After this year’s election, those politicians should be far less afraid and far more willing to vote for sensible [or common-sense] gun-control laws.

The National Rifle Association directed much money and bile against Barack Obama. In false, misleading and, fortunately, ineffective ads, fliers, mailers and Web postings, the group said that Mr. Obama posed a “clear and present danger” to Second Amendment rights and that his election would mean a gun ban....

In fact, Mr. Obama has long been a supporter of the argument, disputed by this page, that the Second Amendment bestows an individual right to bear arms unrelated to raising a militia.... [Do they really believe that? Especially now that the election is over?]



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/opinion/02tue3.html?ref=opinion