Poll Dancers...

I think this will be my new favorite term for politicians on either side of the ideological fence. Just because it amuses me.

If I ever see one of those bloated pompous assholes on a stripper pole, I may commit Hari kiri on the spot.

I do love going to vote though. The party people from both sides standing at the edge of the DMZ have no idea what to make of me. I drive up in a car that costs more than the average American earns in any given year, and competes with the average family income. I'm in faded black jeans, a black t-shirt with some pithy saying on it, a pony tail, black leather 'engineer' boots (Double-H calls them "urban" or "biker", but S. E. Hinton referred to them long ago by their original designation, and that's how I'll always think of them), and today I'll be in my riding leather (not that I have a motorcycle anymore). If I shave, I can pass for under 20. They're usually well dressed suburban soccer moms handing out pamphlets, and they get all confused. It's great. By the time the confusion wears off, I've already made my way inside the Shill Free Zone.

Voting for Jim Webb is gonna make me feel dirty, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I don't think he's any less reprehensible than Allen, but at least he's not gonna toe the Republican party line if he wins the seat in the Senate.

Poll Dancers...

I think this will be my new favorite term for politicians on either side of the ideological fence. Just because it amuses me.

If I ever see one of those bloated pompous assholes on a stripper pole, I may commit Hari kiri on the spot.

I do love going to vote though. The party people from both sides standing at the edge of the DMZ have no idea what to make of me. I drive up in a car that costs more than the average American earns in any given year, and competes with the average family income. I'm in faded black jeans, a black t-shirt with some pithy saying on it, a pony tail, black leather 'engineer' boots (Double-H calls them "urban" or "biker", but S. E. Hinton referred to them long ago by their original designation, and that's how I'll always think of them), and today I'll be in my riding leather (not that I have a motorcycle anymore). If I shave, I can pass for under 20. They're usually well dressed suburban soccer moms handing out pamphlets, and they get all confused. It's great. By the time the confusion wears off, I've already made my way inside the Shill Free Zone.

Voting for Jim Webb is gonna make me feel dirty, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I don't think he's any less reprehensible than Allen, but at least he's not gonna toe the Republican party line if he wins the seat in the Senate.

Poll Dancers...

I think this will be my new favorite term for politicians on either side of the ideological fence. Just because it amuses me.

If I ever see one of those bloated pompous assholes on a stripper pole, I may commit Hari kiri on the spot.

I do love going to vote though. The party people from both sides standing at the edge of the DMZ have no idea what to make of me. I drive up in a car that costs more than the average American earns in any given year, and competes with the average family income. I'm in faded black jeans, a black t-shirt with some pithy saying on it, a pony tail, black leather 'engineer' boots (Double-H calls them "urban" or "biker", but S. E. Hinton referred to them long ago by their original designation, and that's how I'll always think of them), and today I'll be in my riding leather (not that I have a motorcycle anymore). If I shave, I can pass for under 20. They're usually well dressed suburban soccer moms handing out pamphlets, and they get all confused. It's great. By the time the confusion wears off, I've already made my way inside the Shill Free Zone.

Voting for Jim Webb is gonna make me feel dirty, but I'm gonna do it anyway. I don't think he's any less reprehensible than Allen, but at least he's not gonna toe the Republican party line if he wins the seat in the Senate.

Global warming...

Now, I have to come clean on this. I'm a skeptic on global warming. Always have been. The worst that can happen is the planet becomes uninhabitable for 6+ billion people all at once, but with massive reductions in human population, the ecosphere would recover pretty damn quickly, and the fact is, the planet has been far warmer for tens of millions of years at a stretch since long before we came along.

So, I present another view on global warming (it's from The Telegraph, which by US standards is a conservative bias, but the author makes all of his references and calulations available as a PDF for anyone in the world to download right there).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml

My thing with global warming is the minor fact that ~70% of the planet is covered in water, which is still the magic molecule. It's an acid, it's a base, it absorbs heat, it moves heat, it dissipates heat, it's a buffer, it's a catalyst...in short, it's fucking amazing stuff, and it's more prevalent than stupid people in evangelical churches.

Now, deforestation, overfishing, polluting, these things I have real problems with, as they directly affect my quality of life and are just stupid things to do that will make the planet uninhabitable (note to BigCorp Inc: poisoning your customers is not going to increase sales...in fact, you might notice the opposite if you pay attention). Not to mention just plain ugly. I'm all about aesthetics.

So, I'm curious what my faithful readers think of the homey from the UK's take on this issue.

Global warming...

Now, I have to come clean on this. I'm a skeptic on global warming. Always have been. The worst that can happen is the planet becomes uninhabitable for 6+ billion people all at once, but with massive reductions in human population, the ecosphere would recover pretty damn quickly, and the fact is, the planet has been far warmer for tens of millions of years at a stretch since long before we came along.

So, I present another view on global warming (it's from The Telegraph, which by US standards is a conservative bias, but the author makes all of his references and calulations available as a PDF for anyone in the world to download right there).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml

My thing with global warming is the minor fact that ~70% of the planet is covered in water, which is still the magic molecule. It's an acid, it's a base, it absorbs heat, it moves heat, it dissipates heat, it's a buffer, it's a catalyst...in short, it's fucking amazing stuff, and it's more prevalent than stupid people in evangelical churches.

Now, deforestation, overfishing, polluting, these things I have real problems with, as they directly affect my quality of life and are just stupid things to do that will make the planet uninhabitable (note to BigCorp Inc: poisoning your customers is not going to increase sales...in fact, you might notice the opposite if you pay attention). Not to mention just plain ugly. I'm all about aesthetics.

So, I'm curious what my faithful readers think of the homey from the UK's take on this issue.

Global warming...

Now, I have to come clean on this. I'm a skeptic on global warming. Always have been. The worst that can happen is the planet becomes uninhabitable for 6+ billion people all at once, but with massive reductions in human population, the ecosphere would recover pretty damn quickly, and the fact is, the planet has been far warmer for tens of millions of years at a stretch since long before we came along.

So, I present another view on global warming (it's from The Telegraph, which by US standards is a conservative bias, but the author makes all of his references and calulations available as a PDF for anyone in the world to download right there).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml

My thing with global warming is the minor fact that ~70% of the planet is covered in water, which is still the magic molecule. It's an acid, it's a base, it absorbs heat, it moves heat, it dissipates heat, it's a buffer, it's a catalyst...in short, it's fucking amazing stuff, and it's more prevalent than stupid people in evangelical churches.

Now, deforestation, overfishing, polluting, these things I have real problems with, as they directly affect my quality of life and are just stupid things to do that will make the planet uninhabitable (note to BigCorp Inc: poisoning your customers is not going to increase sales...in fact, you might notice the opposite if you pay attention). Not to mention just plain ugly. I'm all about aesthetics.

So, I'm curious what my faithful readers think of the homey from the UK's take on this issue.