Fishtail Stories, and Damned Lies

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Wednesday March 10, 2010 · 4:20 PM PST

2010/03/10 · 16:20

Ah, the unwise days of youthful employment -- pizza delivery in used beaters with serious mechanical problems. In retrospect, my cars probably should not have even been allowed on the road. Nor should many of the moving trucks I've rented.

I've stalled in traffic. I've had a rusted hood latch go on me at highway speeds so I had to pull over in traffic while looking through the tiny slit under the hood. I've had tires blow, accelerator cables snap, and chunks of car fall off unexpectedly.

Warning... about as work-safe as groping your staffers

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Toyota media mania, a product of...

11 votes Vote Now!

Toyota media mania, a product of...

Genuine Concern

4 votes

Mass Hysteria

2 votes

Stock Market Dump and Pump

1 vote

Day-tuk-r-jyobs

0 votes

Prius Envy

1 vote

Generic Assholism

1 vote

Generic Litigiousness

2 votes

Secret Plot To Kill Old People

0 votes

Other Prosecutions I'd like to see (w/poll)

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 6:01 PM PDT

2009/05/07 · 18:01

I want to see a frog march.

Not torture, not bankers... yeah I'd like to see those too.

But something much more mundane... if you own a cell phone, you probably know exactly the perps I have in mind...

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Got phished? On Do Not Call List?

13 votes Vote Now!

Got phished? On Do Not Call List?

On DNC List got these on my cell

2 votes

Not on DNC List got these on my cell

1 vote

On DNC List no cell but got them on land line

2 votes

Not on DNC List no cell but got them on land line

0 votes

On DNC List got these on both cell and land line

2 votes

Not on DNC List got these on both cell and land line

0 votes

Never got these calls own a cell

1 vote

Never got these calls own both cell and land line

5 votes

Never got these calls no cell just land line

0 votes

Cell phones do audio? Why has nobody ever mentioned that to me in a text?

0 votes

The Party Of The Flat Tire

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 19:15

This diary will be a bit rambling. Just hastily shoving a bunch of stuff that came to mind today out there as food for thought.

If someone with an Obama website account could suggest in the appropriate forum that a good campaign event would be to hold a side-of-the-road "car wash" type event where Obama volunteers inflate people's tires for free (and talk up/leaflet energy policy) ... I just haven't gotten around to making an account or exploring the forums there.

I wonder how many Exxon execs are fuming at McCain right now for putting tire pressure in the public spotlight. They've got this collapsing demand problem at the moment, you see...

PIBI stands for Pride In Being Ignorant. Or Proud I Be Ignrent. Pass it on.

More than you ever wanted to know about tires after the bump.

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How do you work this thing?

23 votes Vote Now!

How do you work this thing?

Click here

1 vote

No here dumbass

3 votes

I think you use this one

0 votes

You have to plug this in first

1 vote

Point first click later not the other way around

0 votes

Oops did not mean to click that

5 votes

Now look what you made me go do

0 votes

Definitely not this one

0 votes

Go get Cindy she knows how these things work

13 votes

The "censored" MYOM lawn signs

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Sunday June 29, 2008 · 6:45 PM PDT

2008/06/29 · 18:45

Most of you are probably unaware of the "contest" going on at myyardourmessage.com to design lawn signs that will be available for ordering, and some of which will be put up around town before the RNC in August.

It seems the Walker Art Center wanted only non-partisan signs. They were not very clear about that in their submission rules. Any sign that mentions a candidate or Republicans or Democrats is being "un-approved" for the contest, unless it's one of those weenie "can't we all just get along" things.

Now as far as I know they might even have legal reasons to do this. I don't know whether they get federal funds and/or are restricted somehow.

I just wanted to make sure the signs that got "un-approved" got seen. So they are linked after the bump.

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Hes known as Short Change McCain because

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Hes known as Short Change McCain because

Obsession with chump change line items for political gain

3 votes

Forgets to pay his taxes

4 votes

When it comes to being different than Bush he comes up short

6 votes

Miserly even in the face of a GI Bill

6 votes

Thinks we can be bought for a few pennies of gas tax

7 votes

Thinks 300 million is enough to build a lot of battery factories

1 vote

Pays two bucks a gallon for gas and drives off before the clerk can correct him

4 votes

You're such the tough guy McCain

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Tuesday June 17, 2008 · 9:02 PM PDT

2008/06/17 · 21:02

So now we come down to the "tough guy" strategy. The other guy is "soft" and I'm the big bad "real man" in the room.

Liar.

What kind of "real man" does this...

...to the guy who's campaign ruthlessly smeared him over an adopted child?

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Mc...

44 votes Vote Now!

Mc...

McAngry

2 votes

McCandyass

4 votes

McCan't

6 votes

McCantankerous

1 vote

McC*nt

9 votes

McCannon

2 votes

McCanned

0 votes

McCanard

0 votes

McCoverup

0 votes

McSame

17 votes

McCopy

0 votes

McContradiction

3 votes

An Outside-The-Box Veep Suggestion

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 5:03 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 17:03

Lunch break is always painful for me because that's the time of the day I have to watch the best front-page diaries go sailing by without leaving a comment. (I only have a couple of minutes to glaze over websites.)

So I missed out on the Veep-a-thon today. Coincidentally, I was talking with a friend and fellow kossack this weekend about who would make a good VP pick for Obama. Nothing clicked then. At lunch today it did, and I couldn't post, dammit!

I had a bunch of criteria, and I'll list those after the bump, but one criteria some are hesitant to mention is that Obama's veep is more than a Vice President. He/she should be an insurance policy against foul play -- that's about as lightly as it can be put I guess. Someone that those most likely to commit the unthinkable would not want assuming power after the fact.

And I came up with a name nobody mentioned (unless my text search betrayed me.) It's an out-of-the-box, out-on-a-limb suggestion, from a non-policy-wonk, but who knows... at the very least I expect to be constructively berated...

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How crazy am I?

151 votes Vote Now!

How crazy am I?

Less beans than a convenience store coffee machine

12 votes

One Hussein short of a complete deck of playing cards

11 votes

Bill OReilly crazy

17 votes

Crazy, but that is OK during silly season

42 votes

Crazy... like a fox

31 votes

I got you beat in the crazy department

4 votes

This button is staring at me, so I am going to poke it in the eye now

34 votes

Welcome To McAngry.com

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 7:16 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 19:16

UPDATE: I decided to point mcangry.com to AnotherMassachusettsLiberal's johnmcaingry.com. which is funny because I actually am a Mass Liberal.

No seriously, type "McAngry" into a web browser and you end up here at this very diary. I registered it last night and just pointed it here. Sort of like tinyURL.

The "McThreat Level" estimates the chances of a McCain "Dean Scream", a.k.a. a "McHulk Moment"

MCTHREAT LEVEL: GREEN

As the campaigns are taking time off this weekend, McCain should get plenty of McNaptime.

Keith Olbermann locked up the prime top-of-page real estate for this week with his segment on McAnger Management.

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McHulk Moment -- place your bets

45 votes Vote Now!

McHulk Moment -- place your bets

Before the Republican convention

10 votes

During the Republican convention

0 votes

Before the Democratic convention

2 votes

At a sporting event

0 votes

Election week

0 votes

During a debate

10 votes

On a FOX show

2 votes

On an MSNBC show

0 votes

On a CNN show

1 vote

On the

0 votes

Something to do with hippies

5 votes

Standing in a pool of dead press correspondents

5 votes

Something to do with furry animals

0 votes

In front of a world leader

0 votes

Button Making McHulk... McAngry! McHulk ....SMASH.... BUTTON!!

10 votes

On "Stupid People" and Cattleprod Politics

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 4:24 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 16:24

You hate stupid people, too, right? You know: the "joe six-packs"; the "uninformed"; the "people who should know better"; the "American Idiots."

Like all those morons in the electorate -- not just the "30% backwash," but even some "so-called progressives" are pretty numb.

You'd like to see a presidential campaign be about the real issues, for example, but all you get is "identity politics," "wedge issues," and other hysteria.

So what do you do about it? Read on, I'll tell you...

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The "stupid people" problem can be solved:

34 votes Vote Now!

The "stupid people" problem can be solved:

Slowly: through patient and persistent two-way-street understanding.

6 votes

One at a time: my finely honed skepticism and cunning wit make stupid people melt into puffs of soot.

0 votes

Pretty soon: if only we just got all the smart people together in a united front.

1 vote

Tomorrow: if everyone listened to me and did exactly as I say.

2 votes

With gulags.

8 votes

Never: there is no hope for the world. Steal and horde what property you can defend and run for it.

6 votes

Shiny button! So pretty!

11 votes

Hillary found her voice, and it was Edward's

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 9:48 PM PST

2008/01/08 · 21:48

I think by now it is established that both the Obama and Hillary campaigns realized that populism sells, watching Edwards do what he did in Iowa with much less cash. I have been watching the language slowly morph and it is fascinating for those of us who really like to parse.

Depending on their demeanor, Edwards supporters (I am one) are either irked, or just point to it as Edwards having a positive influence on the campaign. Talking about poverty, it seems, is OK even for a rich guy to do, and no amount of accusations of hypocrisy will kill that message.

Especially when Edwards is savvy enough to string the media along waiting for the Iowa "concession" sound-bite they so desperately wanted, reclaiming some of that lost airtime they have been denying him.

So now that's settled. What's next?

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What's next?

26 votes Vote Now!

What's next?

A Rove "pin the voter fraud on Hillary" manufactured fiasco.

4 votes

Yet another Osama videotape.

2 votes

A spate of reports of newly discovered oil fields that do not exist, followed by yet another oil-price-spiking "crisis"

2 votes

The troll army goes on the march against "populism."

17 votes

Devastating cyber-attack shuts down the facebook, finger pointed at Iran.

1 vote

Protecting Your Teeth From Republicanism

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Friday October 12, 2007 · 5:38 PM PDT

2007/10/12 · 17:38

Untreated cavities, dental care prices up up up. Mexican dental tourism. Less than half of U.S. children with sealants on their molars. That's what seven years of cavity creeps buy us.

The consequences? Disease, the occasional dead child, decreased productivity. Increases health care costs. A nation of sickos. The teeth are often the first domino to be tipped. Prevention here is perhaps the best investment of time, money, and effort a nation can make.

But you are left on your own. So time to bone up...

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This thread is about to erupt into a flame war on...

107 votes Vote Now!

This thread is about to erupt into a flame war on...

mercury amalgam fillings

38 votes

water flouridation

29 votes

smoking

7 votes

some original, but surprisingly ridiculous, minutia

33 votes

Attack of the Killer Pondscum II: The Awakening

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Sunday September 30, 2007 · 5:06 PM PDT

2007/09/30 · 17:06

When we last left our terrified audience, they were fleeing the movie theater, as the credits to Attack Of The Killer PondScum scrolled by, watched only by those too petrified to find their feet.

Hastily they upgraded their sleeping pill scripts and returned to their lives, hoping to someday forget the horror. It was not to be. Just when they thought it was safe to go back in the water, the previews started, and try as they might, they could not avert their eyes. Something was calling -- a great undertow of a voice pulling them like helpless jellyfish, taunting them with that little orange link they knew they just should not click on, but yes they just did, tripped over the bump they did, to suffer the sequela of the sequel.

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My future vacations...

11 votes Vote Now!

My future vacations...

winter

6 votes

summer

2 votes

fall

3 votes

spring

0 votes

Solar From Concentrate -- Just a Sip

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Monday September 03, 2007 · 1:18 PM PDT

2007/09/03 · 13:18

It's been, wow, almost a year, since I last summarized solar concentrator companies for our mutual eco-edification. I started this post yesterday afternoon thinking I'd just have to check out ten or so news articles. Boy was I wrong. For every company I looked at then, there are two more on the radar screen now. Many are based in California, but also other states and across the globe.

You hear all the time that the cost of solar power is going to go down, and if you are like many people find yourself asking "yeah, right, when?" Well, don't let the slow progress fool you. There's a bulge in the garden hose and if you'll follow me past the bump, I hope to give us a better idea of how far we are from the nozzle.

Linky goodness, I promise.

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Swimming is best in a

41 votes Vote Now!

Swimming is best in a

lake -- too much trash in the ocean

7 votes

river -- at least rapids never stagnate

3 votes

ocean -- too many chemicals in the pool

14 votes

pool -- too many chemicals in the ocean

6 votes

neither -- these days everything is a health risk

2 votes

neither -- it's not that the water is contaminated, It's that I'd contaminate the water.

9 votes

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