He would be eaten alive in my firm. He would last 3-4 weeks tops.

And of course the city is raising taxes to expand the bus routes. Which are 2-3 years or more from actually expanding. In the meantime I'll be paying double - more for gas, higher taxes for buses that won't show up till 2010-11 the earliest.

Blood tests, neg (sort of)

Urine, neg

Sonogram, neg

Non contrast CT, neg

Not your lower GI, appendix, gallbladder

We don't know why there's blood in your urine, and we guess that crippling pain and swelling you experience is for no earthly reason we can understand or explain. So go home and take Motrin.

And use zoo cages.

It's called something else, but by the logo you can clearly tell what it is. Apart from the fact that when the fad comes to Raleigh, you know it's dead, it's clear that people take a thrill in being abused or seeing others abused. Of course in this sanitized bike helmet wearing every day is MLK day world we live in, no one's actually going to be shouted at and thrown out. But one can hope.

The funniest part of "Flipping Out" though is the jump the shark aspect of it. The Real Estate Boom to Infinity is over. I hope they run the show out to the point where Jeff Lewis goes bankrupt and has to decide what to wear on his daily blowjobs for OCD medication trips downtown.

One wave and everyone instantly becomes a multicultural multiethnic San Francisco resident who doesn't own a car, is a Vegan, associates only with married gay couples and illegal aliens, doesn't own a tv and has a free solar powered assembly on the roof of the Urban Food Commune to sip free non animal cruelty power from Mother Sun.

Because any other option is heresy.

It's not about running up the bill so much as being able to say "we looked at everything we could think of". And no it's not bladder cancer or prostate cancer. That's not where the pain is localized. Best guess is that it WAS a stone that passed already. The thing is this: Instead of dicking around and sparing me a CT because of the radiation, they should just do it and short circuit the guessing.

But only if OJ Simpson is on the ticket too.

Now if the levees burst we have to freeze in the dark too. Good plan.

Seriously though, if you can't mandate CAFE standards, and it seems no one will, then perhaps they should mandate weight. If our vehicles weighed 10% less it would save more than all the hybrids Toyota could build.

More than half of all voters will fail to levitate their fat lazy asses off the couch TO vote. As Doug Stanhope says "You don't vote, you got shit to do. So you leave it to old people with breathing problems."

Vidal is a critic of middle brow tastes and thinking, much the way Updike was a critic of middle class mores. But as such he's a proud intellectual elitist and his satire often has a blind spot and is utterly un self aware. Compared to Jacques Barzun he feels one dimensional.

No not really they're not. They're about equating or balancing certain legal proscriptions. No one talked about "white rights" after the civil war. No one was attempting to see if a rising tide floats all boats. Otherwise Indians and Jews would have also been allowed to vote.

Another OW gem:

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

This book Bayard is writing about is essentially a previously published collection of essays. Go check Amazon.

He bailed on his own Vegas gig because it morphed into an old guy screaming at his audience about how much he hated them. Which is fine, really, but don't charge me $100 bucks to watch you do it, fuckhead.

Air traffic control radars will have to be replaced with the growth of wind farms. Of course we could just ban air travel outright and kill two birds with one stone.

Who I think is up to 8 or 9 days of ceremonies at this point.

Can ever have an opinion vis a vis the war given they were almost certainly never subject to any military service?

In a changing world we change change for change.

So in two years we'll have an up and running solar powered fully metered delivery infrastructure for electric capacity nationwide?

The South West's fight for its majority interest in solar power given the raw # of days per year of sunshine, vs. say, the Great Lakes Region. I'm sure Salon will scream and complain about those horrible Republicrats who evilly control that market too. Of course they will, and they will charge most of you more what you pay now. That means that everyone else will cling desperately to cheap coal fueled electricity while the South West provides for itself and it's clean clear skies.

They're going around the karmic wheel anyhow.

After Obama picks an ideologically compliant VP - unelectable and either unknown or hated of course. But with pure radical cred. Then the whole shebang goes down in flames and Salon and DailyKOS spend the next 4 years screaming more pointless loser shit.

You might want to check the law on that one.

And just push them OTC.

Because you have to be some kind of moron to climb alone. Take a flare gun next time, honey.

It reminds me of Jerry Stiller.

Dingos ate my baby.