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February 17, 2006
Random Friday Thoughts
A collection of unrelated and random thoughts for Friday:
1. Sammy Sosa is apparently retiring. You know, at least McGwire had one great season without the juice. Sosa was unremarkable before the streroid era, brilliant during it, and downright suckalicious after testing began. You do the math. McGwire will get my HOF vote before Sosa does, because 588 home runs or not the man was clearly a product of the substances that gave name to the era rather than being a genuinely great player. Not to mention that by the end, he was just an egotistical jerk.
2. Watch out for the drunken trees! Stanford University's mascot is a giant walking tree. Members of the school band portray the tree at basketball games. (And I thought it was embarrassing that I once donned the Chuck E. Cheese costume!) One of the trees has just been fired because she was drunk during a basketball game. In a Bode Miller-esque statement, the band's spokesman said that the tree girl was fired because "We don't want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless." Higher education, ladies and gentlemen, at one of the country's most prestigious universities.
3. Bush satisfied with Cheney's "explanation." The man who gave us "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" believes that the Dick "handled the issue just fine," in his so-called explanation of how he shot a man. Has there ever been deeper proof of who really wears the pants at this White House? Bush is so incompetent and emasculated that he can't even step up when Cheney commits the biggest PR gaffe in an administration since Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. In fact, name the last time Bush stood up to anyone he couldn't order the Pentagon to bomb? (Meanwhile, it's clearer than ever that the "above the law, accountable to no one" attitude that has hallmarked this administration since the day the Supreme Court installed them comes directly from Goldfinger in the VP's office.
4. Greenland ice caps melting faster than ever. But there's no such thing as global warming, kids. Never mind that the second largest ice sheet in the world is disappearing faster than Nick Lachey's career. Global warming isn't real. Neither were dinosaurs, for that matter.
I'll do some real writing over the weekend. I promise.
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Comments
"...(And I thought it was embarrassing that I once donned the Chuck E. Cheese costume!)..."
Yeah, 'Mudge. I would definitely be embarrassed about that one.
Posted by: Erika at February 17, 2006 10:07 AM
If it makes you feel any better, I was once my high school's mascot. It was an all girls' school. I was a koala.
Posted by: Jill at February 17, 2006 10:31 AM
Lay off Nick, I heard his last album went cubic zirconia.
Posted by: Corey at February 17, 2006 06:43 PM
Wait, Nick Lachey had a career?
erika, don't knock it til you tried it. I spent a full summer as BooBoo Bear.
Posted by: thebeav at February 18, 2006 01:36 PM
