Movies - Silent Bob is talking

Kevin Smith is posting a series of stories on his blog, My Boring Ass Life, about his real life friend and on screen hetro life mate, Jay's struggle to get clean and away from heroin.

It's a great read.

Humor - Whatever happened to professional courtesy?

A guy is walking down the street in Washington DC, when a masked robber jumps out, pulls a gun and says, "Gimme all the money you have!"

The guy says, "I'm a United States Congressman! You can't do this to me!"

The robber says, "Yeah, you're right... just give me MY money back."

SciFi - Greatest T-shirt. EVER.

I am not a cylon but my imaginary girlfriend is.

See also: STARBUCK IS HOT (the new one)

Personal - Yeah, I kinda saw that coming...

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

Pure Geek 43 % Nerd, 69% Geek, 43% Dork

	You scored higher than 22% on nerdiness
	You scored higher than 92% on geekosity
	You scored higher than 79% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Science - I'm not "afraid" of spiders...

I do have an "intense, violent, deep seeded hatred" of spiders, though, and this does little to change that.

Injections of stress hormone may reduce fear of spiders "Arachnophobes around the world can rejoice - the answer to their darkest fears could be a simple injection away after scientists found that a dose of the body's natural stress hormone, cortisol, can help phobics deal better with fear of spiders."

Personal - And my vacation spot this summer is...

Chodova Plana in the Czech Republic!
"We believe in the healing properties of beer and we offer the full range of treatments. We are a fully-fledged beer spa."

Personal - In brightest day, in blackest night...

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Hot-headed. You have strong
will power and a good imagination.

Green Lantern

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70%
Spider-Man

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70%
Hulk

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60%
Batman

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55%
Catwoman

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50%
The Flash

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50%
Superman

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45%
Robin

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40%
Supergirl

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30%
Wonder Woman

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25%
Iron Man

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25%


Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Politics - DeLay license to carry concealed handgun revoked

The Raw Story | DeLay license to carry concealed handgun revoked "Under Texas law, indicted felons are not allowed to carry concealed handguns."

snicker-giggle-snicker

Politics - Welcome to Kansas!

Please leave your misplaced belief in personal freedom at the border.

I missed the part where I'm supposed to be glad they are doing this. Is this the 21st century equivalent of, "papers please?"

Idiot - My first nominee for "Idiot of the Month"

Unattended Toddler Leads to Arrest at Tulsa Strip Club

"A Kansas man is arrested at a Tulsa strip club after police say his toddler son was left in a cold car and found wandering into the club.

Christopher Killion of Sabetha, Kansas, was arrested Saturday on a complaint of encouraging a minor child to be in need of supervision. He posted $500 bond and was released from jail.

Reports show the toddler told police that his father told him to stay in the car and that if he left it, monsters would eat him."

Politics - This is why they all should be fired.

Every stinking one of those pricks in Washington need to be fired.

America, United States, Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times

"$9 TRILLION

...Is roughly four times Britain’s GDP

...Equates to $1,500 for every man, woman and child in the world

...Would buy all the tea in China. In fact it would buy all the tea in the world for the next 2,000 years.

...Is enough to solve the Palestinian crisis by rehousing every Israeli and Palestinian family in a £1.5m detached house in Henley-on-Thames

...Would build 28 Eiffel Towers — constructed out of gold."

Disgusting.

Personal - Great timing

It's 32 degrees.
The wind is blowing 40 miles per hour.
It's raining sideways.

And we have a fracking fire drill.

Personal - Holiday report

I had a great St. Patty's day. Drank some pints, ate some great food and heard a killer band.

Big Fat Fun played at Loft 150 in Wichita this weekend and they put on a helluva show.

Good times.

Personal - Time for a career change?

I'm thinking seriously about doing this...
Kansas City Bartending School

Politics - Helen Thomas has a posse... part 2

I had the good fortune to speak to Ms. Thomas today on the radio. She was the guest of Steve Kraske on KCUR's Up To Date this morning. I thanked her for being a voice of reason and asking the questions that have to be asked of the current administration. She is a much needed voice of dissent and all the members of the White House Press Corps can learn from her. Let's hope they are listening.

She will present the Emily Taylor & Marilyn Stokstad Women's Leadership Lecture with a speech titled "Covering the White House from Kennedy to Bush" at 7:30 on Tuesday evening March 14th at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas.

Her new book, Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public is slated to be released June 20, 2006.

Sports - Roy who?

Big congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks on a spectacular end to a great season!

Kansas Jayhawks Big 12 Champs

“Can you believe it?” Self said as he turned to assistant Tim Jankovich. “We’re the best in the Big 12 — the best team in Big-Freakin’-12!”

Yes, Self really said ‘freakin’ — and, no, not many would have fathomed something like this could have happened in a season that seemed destined to be a rebuilding year.

But there it was on the American Airlines Center scoreboard: Kansas 80, Texas 68.

Current events - The Iraq war in thirty seconds

Kansas City Star | 03/10/2006 | He knows how close Hussein came to nukes: "He knows how close Hussein came to nukes

For years Saddam Hussein’s nuclear dreams lay like dormant mushrooms in the soil of Mahdi Obeidi’s garden.

Obeidi, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist, had buried blueprints, documents and parts for a centrifuge system “in a safe place” shortly after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

The Iraqis had been only a few years from producing nukes then, with a little help from a surprising source, according to him.

“In the United States, we got some critical things (such as research papers and system programs).”

Through the black market?

“Not from the black market. We asked for it and got it, through normal channels.”

All came to a halt with the Kuwait invasion, the postwar sanctions and U.N. weapons inspectors.

Were there leftover WMDs when American forces invaded in 2003?

“No, no. … I would’ve known.”

There was his stash, however, which he turned over to the CIA. In return, he and his family got sanctuary on the East Coast.

And now, according to Hollywood reports, Johnny Depp has agreed to play Obeidi, 61, in a film project based on his book, The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind. He spoke in Lawrence this week."

Yes, that's the whole article.

To re-cap...

1. Hussein almost had nukes.
2. He got the plans from the United States government.
3. The first war stopped him.
4. There were no WMD's at the start of this war.
5. Johnny Depp is in a new movie.

Wait... JOHNNY DEPP IS IN A NEW MOVIE?!?!

That screaching you hear is the sound of my brain rebooting.

Current events - Guinness 1759 Society

The Guinness 1759 Society is a celebration of all things Guinness.

Comics - DC gets stamped!

USPS - 2006 Commemorative Stamps: "DC Comics Super Heroes
Ten comic book heroes will be saluted on the 'DC Comics Super Heroes' stamps next summer. Half of the pane of 20 will be portraits of the characters; the other half will show individual comic book covers devoted to their exploits. The characters include Aquaman, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Plastic Man, Supergirl, Superman and Wonder Woman."

What? No love for the Martian Manhunter? Sheesh!

Comics - NERDGASM!!! Jim Lee Joins DC Universe MMO

"Today at the New York City Comic-con artist Jim Lee and Sony Online Entertainment accounced that Lee would be collaborating on Sony's upcoming MMO based on the DC Comics universe."

/rocking back and forth chewing on his fingernails
OMG! OMG! OMFG! Please don't screw this up Sony!

Humor - Survivor: Kansas

Not mine, but damn funny.

Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, Kansas is planning to do its own version, entitled "Survivor, Kansas Style."

The contestants will start in Lawrence, travel to Pttsburg, Winfield, Dodge City, Colby and then to Concordia, Atchison then on to Olathe and back into Lawrence.

Each will be driving a pink Lexus with a bumper sticker that reads, "I'm gay, I hate the Chiefs, I'm a vegetarian, I voted for Al Gore, and I'm here to confiscate your guns."

The first one to make it back to Lawrence alive wins.