irreverent

but hilarious

happy halloween

tweeting

reehaye: i've been nauseous for like 4 days now. need it to go away.
mjlahaye: @reehaye you're not, pregnant, are you?
reehaye:@mjlahaye wow, thanks mike. now i'm going to puke. no. not pregnant.
mjlahaye: ok just making sure.

I love

when Pandora plays awesome music I haven't heard in forever.

More Nuttiness on the Right

Per Alan Colmes:

Ed Napolitano (right), who headed Florida’s Southeast Broward Republican Club, resigned after a gun event featuring targets resembling Muslim stereotypes and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Robert Lowry, a real estate mogul who is planning to run against Schultz, was at the event, and shot at the target with the initials “DWS” next to the head.

You stay classy, GOP.

Public Option in.

Harry Reid grew some stones:

I've concluded --with the support of the White House, Senators Dodd and Baucus -- that the best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision for states. The public option, with an opt-out, is the one that's fair."

I don't know exactly how the opt-out would work, but it looks like it wouldn't:

Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican leader from Tennessee, said on the Senate floor Monday, in advance of Reid's announcement, that the opt-out provision isn't to be taken seriously. Medicaid, he noted, has an opt-out provision, but not one state has opted out. Public health insurance, in other words, is too popular for states to opt out.

Not that that is particularly bothersome to me.

I'd still rather see health care go in a different direction (once again, read this), but at least it is going in a direction.

epicness

Excellent music playing while getting coffee today:
Coldplay: Yellow (acoustic)


John Mayer: Who Says


Neil Young: My My, Hey Hey (into the blue)


Harrison's My Sweet Lord:


Ingrid Michaelson: Maybe


Tom Petty: Wildflowers

TODAY

go to XKCD today. it is funny. not rebloggable though, sadly.

F*** you, Penguin

So, the Fuck you penguin guy wrote his book and I guess discovered that we were all bored of him getting angry at cute animals, so he has decided to change it up, and it has a lot of potential.

The story is that he got "captured by evil penguins" who are now the ones publishing his blog. This is from a recent post:

1. Penguins actually can fly, but they choose not to do so because they don't want humans to think that penguins believe they are better than everyone.
2. Penguins have the highest percentage of church attendance in the animal kingdom. Unless you don't like that sort of thing, in which case they are agnostic leaning towards secular humanism.
3. Penguins love NASCAR because it puts them in touch with their working class roots.
4. There has never been an incidence of any penguin using the term "Bros before hos."
5. While there are a small percentage of penguins that hog the spotlight, the vast majority are private birds who just want to live their lives and avoid hurting humans.

My first dictionary

Full blog here. Courtesy of Prudvi.

David Bowie

Nothing like Labyrinth in the morning to make you feel like checking yourself in.

XKCD wins again

subtext:

A laptop battery contains roughly the same energy as a hand grenade, and if it shorted... hey! You can't arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!

6 days?

This guy from "Truth and Science Ministries" will be at Tech at the end of October.



Thank you creationism for being a never ending source of entertainment.

first line of a sonnett

I have to write poetry for my Creative writing class. It is due Tuesday.

So far, I have the first line of a Sonnet:

Senseless screaming is the strangest source

It's not quite helplessly hoping, but I'm no Graham Nash either.

From the AT

Grayson, a guy who lived on my hall last year is taking the semester off to hike the AT, and is blogging whenever he goes into town. It's pretty cool, I'd definitely check it out. This is my favorite post so far:

When I arrived at the shelter at 10p.m. I realized that I walked six miles in the dark with no fear. But, the night’s test had truly just begun. The shelter was overflowing with pre-pubescent boy scouts. That would be the true test.

I'm excited

You remind me of a hippopotamus. Because you suck.

Future roommate. To the kid that should be living with us.

Go Olympia, Go!

So, the Senate Finance Committee passed a health care reform bill, so that's cool. Olympia Snowe, a Republican voted for it, so she is the only nondouche bag, or something like that.

How exciting.

This guy fears that that will make a public option less likely, which kind of sucks. And Michelle Malkin is still insane. Oh well.

Let's drink to the hard working people

Holy shit. I can't believe I never heard about this.

I'm just starting to learn about this KBR case. It's pretty outrageous. Here is some background.

Homecoming

So homecoming is ridiculous. I ran a one night pretend campaign for Homecoming King and then gave up. (My slogan was Mike LaHaye for Homecoming King. Why the fuck not?).
Anyway, I decided that to pretend to run was to simply validate the whole process, and decided that I would just ignore Homecoming. Until I got this:

Heyyy Mike,

I know we have never met, but my name is Ali Miller (friend me on facebook!) and I am running for Homecoming Queen of Virginia Tech, sponsored by Alpha Phi. Right now, for 2 seconds, it would mean so much if you just clicked on this VT link, looked at the left-hand side and clicked on VOTE NOW button.

http://www.vthomecoming.org.vt.edu/

It's so easy and I hate throwing flyers at everyone on the drillfield. This is less annoying...

Thank you so much!
and check out my music video if you have any doubts of voting for me :) Tyrod's in it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65vC4eJQto


--
Alison Miller
College of Liberal Arts
443-880-3995
acmiller12@gmail.com

Clearly, some chick getting my email and sending me shit deserved a response, so I got a little bit creative and replied with this:

I was walkin’ cross the drill field
and a girl walks up to me and asks me to vote for homecoming queen
Much hotter. More Spirit.
Man, I’m not vote for homecoming queen

I threw it on the ground!
You must think I’m a joke!
I ain’t gonna be part of this system!
Man, give that paper to another jackass!
go to my favorite dining hall
and the chick says, “I see you all the time! Won’t you vote for me.”
I said, “Man, what I look like, a high schooler?”
I took it, and threw it on the ground!
I don’t need your handouts!
I’m an adult!
Please, you can’t buy me homecoming queen!
At the farmer’s market with my so-called “girlfriend”
She hands me her cellphone, says it’s the queen.
Man, this ain’t my queen. This is a cellphone!
I threw it on the ground!
What you think I’m stupid?
I’m not a part of this system!
My queen’s not a phone! Duh!
Some frat boy hands me candy at a party
What you want me to do with this, eat it?
Happy homecoming to the ground!
I threw the rest of your frat too!
Welcome to the real world, jackass!
So many things to throw on the ground
Like this, and this, and that. And even this.
I’m an adult!
Two sorority phonys trying to give me their vote.
Ground! Nobody needs a homecoming! Phonys!
Then the two phonys got up. Turns out they had a taser.
And they tased me in the butt hole.
I fell to the ground.
The phonys didn’t let up.
Tasing on my butt hole, over and over.
I was screaming and squirming
My butt hole was on fire!
The moral of this story is: you can’t trust the system!
Man!

God Bless the Lonely Island for making stuff for me to parody.
Also, I'm at Durant is at 4,994 hits. Woot woot.

Cool

Nothing else describes it... maybe besides HOT

best/worst idea ever

An insurance company claims that they would accept anyone who comes to apply. Good, ethical place, fights adverse selection, right?

Here's the thing: their office was on the third floor of the building. There was no elevator. If you can't climb the stairs, you can't apply.

Genius.

(I don't know if it is real, but my Health Care Economics Professor just told us about it.)

"I don't care who you are, that's not funny"

David Cross of Arrested Development takes on Larry the Cable Guy. And is the man.

Childish?

Krugman writes

“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine’s staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself “gleeful.” “World Rejects Obama,” gloated the Drudge Report. And so on.
So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.

Hey Paul: calling someone a bratty 13 year old moves the conversation as far forward as celebrating the loss of the Olympics. I agree with the premise of your article, and think that it is important. However, that gets lost in your cheapshot.

You won a Nobel Prize. Act like it. Write like it. We need you to.

Text from Matt

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN. HOW DO YOU GET A PHONE OUT OF CAPSLOCK?

(Republican) Party like it's Nineteen-Ninety (four)

I guess not.

deeeyum

McCardle on Cash for Clunkers:

Cash for Clunkers moved a bunch of auto sales forward, causing people who thought they might replace their car in the next year or two to rush into the showrooms. Now, in the aftermath, sales are plummeting: 47% at GM, 44% at Chrysler, 8.9% at Ford, 16% at Toyota, 23% at Honda, 11% at Nissan. I hope those car companies used the cash infusion now, because they'll be on lean rations for months, even years.

That's why we need to fix health care+social security, boys and girls.

FAVORITE QUOTE EVER

Mr. Pauly has a very interesting sentence: "the above analysis shows, however, that the response of seeking more medical care with insurance than in its absence is a result not of moral perfidy, but of rational economic behavior." We may agree certainly that the seeking of more medical care with insurance is a rational action on the part of the individuals if no further constraints are imposed. It does not follow that no constraints ought to be imposed or indeed that in certain contexts individuals should not impose constraints on themselves. Mr Pauly's wording suggests that "rational economic behavior" and "moral perfidy" are mutually exclusive categories. No doubt Judas Iscariot turned a tidy profit from one of his transactions, but the usual judgment of his behavior is not necessarily wrong.

-KENNETH J. ARROW

Health Care fail

Let's give Everybody AIDS!
-John Stewart

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