The Wounded-Courier:

NY Times Hires Vladimir Putin as Weekly Columnist

“We are thrilled to add Vladimir Putin's distinctive voice to our op-ed page,” said Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor. “He is a captivating leader and keen observer of the 21st-century political landscape. His work will undoubtedly be provocative in this election year. Plus, he threatened to have me poisoned if I didn't hire him.”...

In further defending the hire, Rosenthal explained, "Look, Hitler and Stalin are dead. Pol Pot, too. Osama bin Laden tends toward the run-on sentence. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has trouble meeting deadlines. Musharraf told us he has too much on his plate right now to commit. Charles Manson's parole board has repeatedly declined our requests for Chuck to pen a column for us while serving out his life sentence. Dick Cheney can't write a sentence without dropping an F-bomb. And, well, let's just say all options were off the table concerning President Bush."

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and they don't hate us for our freedoms. They saw "American Idol" and just knew that we needed putting down.

Wow. You nailed that. The whole thing. But double "word" on the last part.

"Mystical undergarments" is more intriguing, but I can see how "magical underwear" might have it's appeal with the targetted audience.

Happy Mystical, Magical 2008 everyone!

Let's keep talking about Austin. Resolution anyone??? ;->

It was also fun to go through a 30-foot snow tunnel to the outhouse.

That brought back memories for me.

My father has a cabin on a lake in Ontario, Canada. The winter he had it built I accompanied him on the trip. I was 10. We had to go through a snow tunnel to reach the outhouse too. I'm short now, but I was really short then, and the snow seemed to me to be at least 20 feet deep. Angus, the camp cook, who took care of me during the day when the others were working teased me by telling me there was an old bear that hung out by the outhouse looking for a good meal.You can imagine the speed records I must have broken for peeing in an outhouse after that. ;->

Angus was a great guy. I still have a letter somewhere that he wrote and mailed me that was written on birch bark. He Even fashined the envelope out of it. He was such a patient person. We would play cards for hours and when I tired of that he would get some bark and make me a teepee and canoe so I could play with that.

Thanks for the memory RMP.

If you google "saltation", the third entry from the top is "Farting through my fingertips".

From the viewpoint of someone who, over the course of years working in the field of clinical microbiology has seen the damage done by the selective mutation of bacteria to more resistant forms, I'd have to say that sounds about right.

We can argue til the cows come home about the wherefore's of these things, but the fact remains, if we don't succeed in keeping up with the evolution of such organsims as Methicillin Resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) and multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDRTB), then evolution will have succeeded in finding one more way to rid the planet of our sorry selves, irrespective of how long it took us to evolve.

Indeed, since the whole point of science is to learn then we would be remiss if theories, themselves, did not evolve based on the experiments devised to explore them. That is the "fallacy" that the flat-earthers base their argument on. And because they are creatures of unnassailable faith, nothing we can say will put a dent in that.

Well, I'm off to a New Year's Day party to see if my theory that Illinois can prevail in the Rose Bowl has any merit. ;->

If I hadn't spent so many years seeing the direct, and sometimes catastrophic, result of these nasty bugs then I don't suppose I would be so exasperated with people who like to throw out the "theory" of evolution yet rush to take advantage of every damn thing that's resulted from the advancement of science since that "theory" came about.

We now have young, healthy people dying of community acquired MRSA, something that hasn't happened with staph infections since the discovery of penicillin fer Gawd's sake, and we're supposed to waste time on the educational smoke-screen these people throw up so that we can go back to that time faster?

It's a huge waste of time and lives and they are too narrow-minded to even realize how destructive their ill-founded putsch is.

Sorry History Channel showing hybridization of monkeys and humans-no Nostradamus tonight.

-- bethincary

That explains Bush and Shooter.

I may have to rethink The History Channel...

-- L.W.M.

Chimpy and his Mandrill.