Parts of this seem made up to me, but I'm using eleven layers from now on just in case. I did once wake up in the middle of the night with a moth in my ear. Freaked me out. Anyway, "Excreted Without Incident" WMAGNFARB.

Jerry Orbach
1935-2004



"Standard Procedure" image from Brandon Bird's site, which I found through Ghost of a Flea.

Ghost of a Flea has got to link to me if I link to this sort of thing, right? While I'm at it, I'd better link to something of a more Yuletide nature.

Meanwhile, in Washington gubenetorial shenanigans: Laughable self- parodies have called the election for Christine Gregoire and once again the Malkinatrix knows better than I what to link to on the topic. Also, Gregoire looks like Barney Fife. We've got to nip it in the bud!!!

I read it in Pravda, so it must be true.

Haven't been able to get comments to work, and I realized that the main reason I wanted comments was to get my visitors, if I have any, to vote on various things. So I'm going to start posting some of those Pollhost things. For now, I'm putting them a little way under the Autorantic Virtual Moonbat that's now just to your right. Tip of the hat to whatever site I first saw one of those on. If no one votes I'll feel like a sad orphan on Chrismas!

I heartily approve of this game. Go, Toby, go! I also approve of this one, to a lesser extent.

Because I assume you can't get enough of this kind of post -

You are 30% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

Anyone know why I keep reggressing to slithery reptile in the TLB Ecosystem? I keep thinking people are de-linking me, probably women. The women out to get me, I tell you, they're in league with the Mormons and the Papists!

My Washington is quickly catching up with the other Washington in terms of it's reputation for political absurdity. I liked what local brick and mortar blogger Ken Schram (of Ewww, Some Schram In The Street! fame) had to say about our wacky State Supreme Court and their latest impish hijink (which attracted the attention of the Skeptical Curmudgeoun and Space Bunny's Masseur). I suggest hosing the whole State with holy water instead of using nukes, that way it'll just kill the law school graduates. Once again I am left wondering how many years of law school it takes before the principle of punishing A for violating the rights of B by pretending not to know what you found out as a result of the violation. Isn't the retribution for breaking the law usually supposed to be some kind of PUNISHMENT levied at THE PARTY THAT BROKE THE LAW? Maybe the principle involved is one of those things that seems less horrifically wrong if you use the latin name for it, like "prepuce".

Meanwhile, each "recount" in our gubernatorial race counts new votes that haven't been counted before. Rossi's 261 vote lead in the original count is down the memory hole - The mantra is that the "recount" going on now is neccessary (and would have been demanded by Rossi were the situation reversed) because his lead was only one of 40 votes. This was only the case AFTER the first "recount", in which Gregoire's buds managed to dig up a bunch of extra votes. When they say that every vote must be counted (another mantra of the blue county people, they've got a lot of them, at least this one dosen't start "Hey hey, ho ho"), they are refering to mismarked ballots as "votes".

Interesting. Apparently, people can't find their genitalia without federal assistance, it's impossible to learn anything from sexual experience within marriage, and men don't want women to have orgasms. Kind of counterintuitive, that. The author of the above linked article is from Vermont, so I'm using that as an excuse to dust of the anti-Vermonter slur I made up when it looked like Dean was going to be the Democratic nominee and never got to use: You Syrup Sucking Crypto Canadian!!!