The Downside of Genetic Engineering

I came across this on threadless.com which is a site where you can purchase hipster/geek/nerd t-shirts for the hipster/geek/nerd in your life. I thought it was funny, if a bit involved for a t-shirt.

h/t wwheaton

A Larf For You

Stealing from the Onion's Worst band Names of 2007:

Honeydew Revue
This Austin band wins for Best Opening Line Of A Band Bio: "34.7 hundred years ago, in the mountains of Echinacea, an elf gave birth to a baby elf."

Google Wit

I got this when I was searching for images related to bargaining. Apparently the fine folks at Google has sat around one too many bargaining tables as well.

More Thorp

If I could say it better than the Curmudgeon I wouldn't be working at the GTFF:

Uh-oh, Howard looks like he’s about to prove that wearing Buddy Holly glasses and being named “Howard” doesn’t automatically make you smart. It’s well known that the Internet primarily exists as a vehicle for anonymous personal abuse. Googling the name of a crappy high school quarterback who plays in a town unnaturally obsessed with high school sports will mainly serve to demonstrate how many ways there are to misspell “YOU FUCKING SUCK.”

A Larf

I'm not saying that Hot Chicks with Douchebags is my new favorite or anything, but I do loves me some snark.

The Perils of Blogging While Drunk and Republican

This astute political analysis was posted on a the Willamette Week (Portland indie paper) blog by the Vice-Chair of the Marion County (Salem, OR) GOP:

I Hope the Democrats have enjoyed their short lived pouncing of peoples paychecks while giving more to Illegal Aliens and Communist sympathizers.

Republicans will take back Oregon next year, I will make sure of it.

Oregon will not become a Communist State no matter how hard the Dem's keep trying to do so, as people wake up to their cradle to grave-Gov't (Unions-Mafia)knows best agenda, people will flee that backwards Damn the people, Party of far left wacko's.

America has hundreds of Millions of peoples from all over the World that want to live here for Freedom & Independence, not Oregon's Gov't dictators or Union's that also take your paycheck(Making them worse than Corp.s, at least you voluntarily give them $), very similar to where they live now and why they want to leave their Country and come here. Democrats keep forgetting that, because they are drunk with power and can't get on the 12 step program because they hate God.

It's OK people, the responsible, keep the money YOU earned & put American workers 1st, real Republicans will make it better soon.

I WILL MAKE SURE OF IT!

Rick Hickey, New Vice-Chair Marion Co. R's

Zing!

Hilzoy on Golberg:

Jonah Goldberg has no such fears: he sees that contradiction is not a peril to be feared, but the narrow footbridge that allows us to cross over the great abyss of incomprehensibility into a world of sublime and transcendent certainty, in which, freed from niggling doubts and hairsplitting distinctions, our soul can fuse with the world-soul, and we can simply know, with every cell in our body and every fiber of our being, that whatever we did in Iraq was justified, that history will redeem our grand vision, and that liberals are always wrong.

Necessary Compromises

From LG&M:

Jonah Goldberg, 18 July 2007:

Democracy — by which I primarily mean a liberal order marked by the rule of law and political accountability of government officials — is morally preferable to tyranny and it is always worth some measure of our effort to advance it wherever tyranny reigns. That doesn't mean we should deliver liberalism at gunpoint around the globe. But even if it is a matter of rhetoric and soft diplomacy, we should always be on the side of freedom. Necessary compromises with reality are forgivable, even advisable, but that shouldn't change our conviction. Charges of hypocrisy as we deal with the Musharrafs of the world is [sic] a small price to pay for championing liberty. I thought this was the sort of stuff Reaganites believed.

Jonah Goldberg, 18 July 1979:

Necessary compromises with reality are forgivable, even advisable, but that shouldn't change our conviction. Charges of hypocrisy as we deal with the anti-Soviet mujahedeen in Afghanistan is a small price to pay for championing liberty.

Jonah Goldberg, 18 July 1984:

Necessary compromises with reality are forgivable, even advisable, but that shouldn't change our conviction. Charges of hypocrisy as we deal with Saddam Hussein is a small price to pay for championing liberty.

"Charges of hypocrisy," if recent history is any help, are the least of our worries when it comes to "dealing with Musharraf."

Lil' Baby AB

So Amber asks me the other day, "Can you inherit weirdness?"
To which I reply, "Do you mean is 'weirdness' genetic?"
She says, "Yeah, is it in your genes?"
I say, "No. I think it's environment on that one."
Amber again, "You mean it's, like, learned."
As I was saying "yeah," she kind of realized that she's fucked both ways.

She was cleaning the racks to the oven and when she was done she asks me if she should just put them back in the oven. I said, "Sure, what else would you do with them?" She says, "Well I didn't know. I thought they might cause a fire or something as they dry."

Amber let's me know she hates the new floor.
"I hate the new floor," she says. "It's too slick."
"Slicker than what?" I ask.
"Slicker than everybody else's floor," she relates.
I ask, "How would you know? Do you go over to your friends' houses and stand around admiring their floors?"
"No," she says, " I look at their silverware and ovens, but not the floors."