Terri Schiavo

May she rest in peace finally. My only hope is that
there weren't too many hearts jumping with happiness
when the news broke. The questioins posed by her case
are too important to be reduced to our-side-their-side.

Weird Games

At the third annual Weird Games, Olya proves once again
that those Belarussian girls can kick a dog higher and
further than anyone.

Friends around a table

Tonight I spent an evening with old friends, from the days when
our group was a danger to civilized society. Well, a danger to
ourselves mainly, but society did register a few complaints. We
met at my friend Ed's childhood home, which looked just as I remembered
it. Not one of us had aged a day, or so we said. Course by the end
of the evening I had heard at least two conversations concerning
hair growing out of ears.

We talked about the old days, and our old cars, and the ditches
our old cars ended up in. I got misty eyed talking about la Bomba,
my old Ford Torino. (Starsky and Hutch's car, only in need of paint)
It was a heap when I bought it, and still a heap when
I sold it to Ed, and a heap when it ended up in a west virginia
ditch. But it always *looked* bad; you had to careful when you drove
la Bomba because it would draw police from miles around.

And a first.... tonight I sat for the first time on a couch that
Ed's mom had put a plastic cover on thirty years ago. She's in a
retirement home now so two days ago the covers came off. And you
know what? Those plastic covers really do work; the couch looked
brand new. Course, for a generation nobody dared sit on that couch
so it's hard to argue that it's life has been extended. It's sort of
been in hibernation. A couch deferred.

baseball

Ah, smell the hot dogs, hear the crack of the bat,
see the flashing ambulance lights. Must be spring again.

self exploitation

From Reuters:

Harvard in Lather Over Campus Maid Service
Thu Mar 10, 2005 04:02 PM ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - A Harvard University student's fledgling dorm-cleaning business faced the threat of a campus boycott on Thursday after the school's daily newspaper slammed it for dividing students along economic lines.

The Harvard Crimson newspaper urged students to shun Dormaid, a business launched by Harvard sophomore Michael Kopko that cleans up for messy students.

"By creating yet another differential between the haves and have-nots on campus, Dormaid threatens our student unity," the Crimson said in an editorial.

"We urge the student body to boycott Dormaid."

Like many elite American universities, Harvard comprises a mix of affluent students as well as those who are less well-off.

But Kopko, 20, said he could not understand the Crimson's reaction to his business, which he said was all about creating jobs and wealth at the Ivy League school.

"In a free economy it's all about choice, and the Crimson is trying to take choice away from people," the student entrepreneur told Reuters. "I think it's a very uneconomic and narrow view. It's essentially against creating wealth for society."

Kopko said since launching his dormitory-cleaning service last month in the Boston area, he has signed up 50 clients. He plans to expand the service to other parts of the country and is aiming for $200,000 in annual sales in a year's time.

Reminds me of those who would close down maquiladora shops because
the workers aren't being paid enough. Never mind that *any* paycheck
is better than none at all. Why not ask the exploited worker what
he wants?
(Anyway, I suspect that in ten years time, Mr. Kopko will be
squarely in the "haves" camp.)

the mind boggles

From Leftwing Media Machine How to get the liberal "message" out there? Splice it to a porn video, of course:

I suggest that leftists learn how to make porn videos. Integrate the teaching of progressive ideas and progressive-oriented contemporary history with the "plot" of the porn video. If you have a high quality video, you could attract a large, albeit male, audience. You could use willing and attractive progressive females, or, seeing as how digital cameras are getting ever cheaper, and broadband is everywhere, raise funds to do it in 3rd world country--outsource the creation of progressive porn.

Then distribute it for free on the p2p networks. And the good thing about good video that has been distributed on the p2p networks--it becomes immortal: it lives on forever, traveling from computer to computer in an onanistic valhallah, forever spreading the progressive message to ever more young and impressionable American male minds.....
A good porn video might be seen by tens of millions of men.

Now, understand that this does not necessarily have to be hardcore porn. It could be something like "PROGRESSIVE GIRLS GONE WILD!". And then insert graphics or text to teach the viewer something you want them to learn about. For example, you could insert facts or graphs about how the highest marginal tax rate has been dropping as the the quality of life has also been dropping. Or you could list facts about universal healthcare in other countries. There are a hundred ways or more to get across a progressive message.

Progressive Girls Gone Wild? My poor milk squirting nose.

Forklift Driver Klaus

Click on the picture for a very odd video. It starts out
looking like a training film but at about the two minute mark
things start going terribly wrong. Lots of blood and gore but
it's more hokey than disturbing. It goes on for about 9 minutes
total.

this may work better than the link:

And the winner is.......

100_0738, originally uploaded by lumberjack.

NordicThunder

Lutheranocity

"I have nothing against English, I speak it every day," he
said, "But if we don't teach our children Norwegian, what
will they do when they get to heaven?"

Not me

retrieve, originally uploaded by lumberjack.