I tend to be liberal in my thinking. No, really. I’m all for energy policy reform with renewable power sources because modern windmills are so cool to look at when driving by in your car. I guess the term nowadays is ‘progressive’ as liberal has been turned into a dirty word somehow, yet the conservatives that helped make the word synonymous with being unpatriotic have themselves no problems with naughty language. Take this excerpt from a piece of hate mail that Daily Kos got (you can read the entire thing here):

I’d like to personally kick the shit out of you. But since you’re probably in New York or Los Angeles, that’s not going to happen. I’ve been to Los Angeles. What a shithole. I’d like to get some good pizza in NY, but not at the risk of running across assholes like anyone on the New York Times, Madonna, David Letterman, or any other cocksucking liberal.

I have one huge problem with this well-thought-out debate on whether Obama as President would open the gates to terrorist attacks:

There is nothing wrong with cocksucking!

Cocksucking is a glorious and respected past time and should never used in a way that would make someone think the cocksucker is some sort of horrible, hairy monster salivating at the very thought of mouthing cock. The funny thing is this guy — c’mon, it has to be a guy. No woman I know would miss the chance of running into Madonna in NY and thumping her on the head for making it that much harder to live up to sexual expectations — should be exalting the act of cocksucking because, well, he’s a guy. If it popped up in his political jargon then you know he’s thinking about it. He’s actively imagining scenarios where he drunkenly picks up some girl but is not able to erect the “Burj Dubai” or is soliciting someone in an airport bathroom stall hoping to sting the back of a throat.

In other words, leave cocksuckers alone because you know you want ‘em. Besides, there is nothing wrong with them some mouthwash and an antibiotic can’t cure.

Listening to: “Sensation” - Bryan Ferry

Monday morning I woke up with a fever of 100.4 and haven’t really shaken off the slight fever feeling since, so my reading of blogs has been sporadic at best. I could be a bitch and say none of you wrote anything worth my notice, but it’d be an assoholic lie. Instead, I will entertain/bore you with some random things that happened this week when I wasn’t lying on the couch soaked in my own man sweat.

The big thing for me was the announcement that the Democratic Party has taken John Edwards and Barack Obama’s pledge of not taking donations from lobbyists to heart and made a sweeping change for the entire party. What that means — in theory — is that the only group that the Democratic Party has to now answer to is “We, The People”. This kind of integrity is reason I am a fan of both Edwards and Obama.

You may have noticed the blog being streamlined. I had some complaints about loading time and decided to get rid of most of the clutter. Now if I can just get my host to streamline their side.

I know Twitter is free and it can be fun, but it’s frequent downtime is certainly a fun sucker. Scott-O-Rama asked several of us to check out Plurk. It has a cool interface and a verb drop down menu that is fun. Check it out and see if you like.

“The Venture Bros.” season premiere party I held Sunday night was a lot of fun. It just sucked the the Mountain Time Zone gets screwed by receiving the Pacific feed, so while everyone else got to see the show at 11:30 (or 10:30 Central), we had to wait until 12:30. It was worth it though. I watched the episode again the other night and found a slew of funny stuff that was missed the first time because everyone was laughing/falling asleep.

And a final thought: they say drinking caffeine stunts your growth. I grew up Mormon and wasn’t allowed to consume caffeine. So why am I only 5′ 6-1/2″?

Listening to: “Dirty World” - Traveling Wilburys

Monday at the video store, I was joking around with a customer about collecting, when I had the following epiphany:

Obsession fuels capitalism

Listening to: “Sentimental Lady” - Bob Welsh

Can you guess what the image is to the left?

Wrong! It’s not Colorado. It is:

…the geoellipsoidal rectangle that stretches from 37°N to 41°N latitude and from 102°03′W to 109°03′W longitude…

Geoellipsoidal? Geoellipsoidal? No where in my brain does this word register. Since I don’t understand it, I shall laugh at it. And I did. Quite hardily. This hilarious description of Colorado is within the Wikipedia listing for the state and you would be correct in presuming that “geoellipsoidal” is a word that doesn’t exist… until now. Really. I did an exhaustive look for it and when I got to the second Google page of sites quoting the Wikipedia article, I gave up.

Oh, the word sounds fancy enough and at first thought sounds cool enough to actually work. At second thought, it doesn’t, but then as you take in the big picture, it does. Technically. But by then you’re so bored thinking so deeply you’d rather watch Whitney be the first “plus size” model to win “America’s Next Top Model” again. OMG! Can you believe it? So cool! She’s so pretty. I wish she was my sister.

geo-: geography

Check.

-ellipsoid: a surface all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles

This is where your inner sophomore cheerleader should be saying, “Uh, nooooo. Colorado is a rectangle. Duh. A quadrilateral. Dur-hoy. Take a geology lesson, dufus.”

“Actually,” your inner geography teacher says, “Earth is spherical and basically made up of many ellipsoidal planes on which Colorado rests making the quadrilateral bend along the z-axis giving it a third dimension, so the term ‘geoellipsoidal’ works in this instance. You see, if we apply the Cartesian coordinate system to our map of Colora…”

“Oh, my gawd, look! It’s Whitney!”

Listening to: “Candida” - Tony Orlando & Dawn