Random Thoughts on a Wednesday
Yesterday, former vice presidential and presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said the following:
"It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril." -- Joe Lieberman
Can we at least stop pretending he’s a Democrat? Seriously, this sounds like Dick Cheney talking.In fact, I'm reasonably sure whoever wrote this for Lieberman also writes for the Bush administration. Which it has been suggested he could join as Secretary of Defense, replacing Rumsfeld. I'm all for replacing Rummie, and I actually doubt that Joementum would be as pathetically bad as Rumsfeld, but it's not bi-partisanship when the Democrat in question talks like this. I would be shocked at this point if he doesn’t join the Bush administration, and/or changes his party affiliation. Can he officially change his name to Zell as well? For my money, anyone who tries to suggest why Al Gore would have been such a wonderful president better explain to me why he chose this stain as his VP candidate. Grrr..
For fun, note who is grinning from ear to ear behind Bush and Joementum in this picture. Yeah, I'm REAL thrilled about that potential 2008 candidate. Crikey.
While this is the time of the year to reflect on the good things we’ve had, I was thinking this morning about two events that happened to me personally this year that sucked: the first was managing to squirt the oil from a jalapeno into my eye not once but twice within about thirty seconds. Trust me, if this has never happened to you, try and make sure that stays the case. I can only assume it feels roughly similar to being stabbed in the eye with an ice pick and having someone pour hot sauce into the gaping wound.
The second thing that happened was last night, when – while repairing a ceramic mask my cleaning woman broke but didn’t fully repair – I squirted Krazy Glue all over my left hand. As I sat there staring at it, wondering what the hell I was going to do, it dried. In all of three seconds, I was screwed. I don’t have nail polish remover at home, so I took the other advice and soaked it in warm water which did nothing but make my glue-ridden fingers pruny. It didn’t hurt, and frankly as I peed about five minutes later it was obvious that there were worse places I could have sprayed Krazy Glue onto, but for now, it feels like my entire left hand is a callous. (And yet, some folks preach putting Krazy Glue into small abrasions? Thanks, but I’ll pass.
It also struck me that I could have avoided both these scenarios by wearing gloves. Now, I don’t want to be one of those crazy people who wear a mask in the street to avoid pollution, but maybe a pair of gloves wouldn’t kill me.
The movie review site Pajiba is solid. Very solid. How did I miss this before? Damn gigantic internet.
Finally, is it too much to ask for a single week to go by where I don’t have to worry about how to fill some positions in fantasy football? I finally find a running back in DeShaun Foster and now Norvelle Turner decides to bench Kerry Collins? Jeebus. Is this some type of revenge on those of us not named Norvelle?