Whoa, nelly

The ingredients: Regional branch down the road has its computers go down, cold rainy Sundays are the busiest day of the week and there are only two of us working instead of three. Outcome: Urge to kill...rising.

A Minor Miracle

I did not have to work yesterday so I had a chance to catch up on some personal business. I needed to pay my county vehicle tax and then run by the DMV and renew my license tag. For the first time in my life I spent more time driving while taking care of these two tasks than I did standing in line. I was in and out of each office in less than fifteen minutes. When I walked out of the DMV office I was in a daze. I had the whole afternoon in front of me. It was like free bonus time. It was like my life had been extended by three hours.

Whenever this time of the year rolls around I always have to run by the county tax office to pay my vehicle tax before I head to the DMV. I never pay my vehicle tax until I absolutely have to and you absolutely have to have that paid before you can renew your tag now. I guess that's good because if it wasn't set up like that I probably wouldn't pay my vehicle tax until they came to my door.

A Short Dialogue

Me: Wow, the wait here gets shorter each time.
DMV Lady: We're trying!
Me: I barely had time to read any of my book. I used to bring two books but you have been getting faster so this time I only brought one.
DMV Lady: Hopefully soon you won't have to bring any book at all.

Wow, imagine that. That would be pretty close to heaven on earth if the DMV ever got to the point where you could just walk up and get what you need without having any line to wait in at all. Jesus, to dream is to dream.

A cat picture

It's been a while since I've posted a picture of one of my cats being cute. So here is Pippin sleeping on my bed.

The Comedy never stops

I see our hilarious president has put a notice out that it is wrong to resort to violence over an offense to one's religion. Man, that's funny stuff. Who writes his material?

Oops

Often when I recommend that someone go to the main library to do some research they claim that parking downtown is a nightmare or that it costs too much to park or there is too much crime there. I usually poo poo their claims and tell them that parking is much easier now because there is a ten-story parking deck near the library where you can park free for ninety minutes and it's only two dollars every half hour after that. Not a bad deal, right? I aslo tell them that the crime that was a problem downtown has been pretty much cleared up since the mid-nineties.

I had to be at the main library at 11 today for a big meeting. I left home at 10:30. I figured I would be able to park at the parking deck and get inside to the conference room with time to spare. Naturally the parking deck was full and the parking lot at Spirit Square was full also. I had to drive around, find a pay lot and stick four bucks into one of those metal self service boxes. By the time I got to the meeting room I was ten minutes late and the web seminar had already started. The second in command of the library and the head librarian were at this meeting. Man, did I feel like a tool walking in there late. Oh, and the manager of my branch was there also. It was a glorious moment, I tell you.

At least I didn't see any crime while I was down there. I'm still right about that.

New Look

A friend recommended I gets an RSS feed. I gots one now. I figured it wouldn't hurt if I found out how to do this since I am going to teach the general public a class on blogging next month. My old template had some HTML in it that blocked the news feed so I had to change. Nothing is permanent, even on the rock solid internet. If you have an irrational desire to have All You Need is Blog show up in your news reader you can do it with the link available to the right of this here text.

My new phrase

After reading about and watching some of the steaming bowl of bull shit served up by the torture legitimizing attorney general yesterday my favorite new phrase is "constitutional, necessary and legal." I think if the Bunker Brothers ever make a new album that should be what we call it. That title kinda reminds me of Illegal, Immoral and Fattening by Flo and Eddie.

Killing for god, Part 5,565,323

How can religous people expect me to take them seriously when they riot because some guy in the Netherlands draws a cartoon? God, I love fundamentalism. If you insult the prophet of the true one god of love we will burn your fucking house down.

Obscenity of obscenities

I was reading about the federal budget today. This year we are going to spend $489.5 billion on killing people and/or preparing to kill folks (that figure includes the $50 billion budgeted for Iraq). If you figure we have roughly 300 million people living in this country that comes out to $1631.67 per person. We could buy every person in this country a 1990 Honda Civic for that much money. We could probably feed the world also but that's commie talk.

Of course that money isn't really set aside just for killing. That money is needed for a strong armed force that can protect mine and your'n freedoms. Freedoms that our un-named and mostly invisible enemy hate hate hate. An enemy that could hit us again at any second. Of course, if that enemy hit us with every they had once a week for six months still couldn't kill as many people as Americans do every year with their legally purchased firearms. That's commie talk also.

If I budgeted I could probably feed myself for a whole year with a little more than $1631.67. I could probably eat pretty well. How many families could you feed in Honduras with $1631? You could give that much money to a school teacher and she wouldn't have to spend her own money for supplies this year. How about a single mother? How much would that chunk of cash help her with day care? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard all that shit before. Nothing will be done about it. Bush will get that serious look on his face and start talking about 9/11 and protecting uneducated fat Americans and the military budget will just get bigger and bigger and people will go hungry in the richest country in the world and change will not be considered let alone debated.

Color me confused

I see attorney general Santa Anna, I mean, Gonzalez is being questioned by the senate judiciary committee yet he was not required to be sworn in. What is up with that? Those oil company execs don't have to be sworn in and now Gonzalez isn't either. My quesion is, if you aren't sworn in is it legal to lie your ass off?

For the man who has everything

If you are every wondering what to buy me on some special occasion may I suggest this. It would be most appreciated.

Quick Quiz

One of the men in the following photograph is a cool rock star trying to do good in the world. The other is a joke of president doing all he can to further the cause of the big business and the rich. Can you tell which is which?

Whoring out the grand old dame

I see that Tiger Stadium is being used to house a temporary night club sponsored by Buttwiper beer. First of all, if you don't think marketing works how is it possible that swill like Budweiser sells so much product? Secondly, something needs to be done about Tiger Stadium. Either blow the place up or maintain it and use it for high school baseball playoffs, college games or whatever else you can think of. It drives me crazy that the place is sitting there rotting and used every couple of years for a movie or some silly promotion like this one.