this paragraph is why I love Weetabix.
dumber than a box of rocks:
“I don’t know if it’s the fact that the holidays are stressful or that they bring up bad memories or if it’s merely the fact that I’m a one woman estrogen band ensemble of crazy right now, but I’m seriously considering running off to live in a cabin in the woods. A tastefully decorated cabin furnished by Restoration Hardware, but a cabin nonetheless. I would have but a dog to keep me company and perhaps also a duck for times when the dog and I aren’t speaking. And also, what can make one happier than being followed around by a fat little white duck? Nothing, I assure you. Nothing at all. Well, maybe candy.”
More cruelty to children.
Yahoo! News – Julia Roberts’ Twins Born Early in Calif.: “Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder “
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Yeah, I’m still here. I’ll post when I’m not so cranky.
are you kidding me with this name?
If there were ANY doubt of insanity running rampant in the Jackson family, here’s the evidence…
Gisele Bundchen’s pooch goes missing; Sharon Stone becomes an ordained minister; Bruce Willis sues over ‘Sun’: “JERMAINE TO DIVORCE
Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine has filed for divorce from his wife of nine years in a Los Angeles court.
The former Jackson 5 member is citing irreconcilable differences for his split with wife Alejandra, who is the mother of his two sons, Jaafar and Jermajesty.
This was Jackson’s second marriage — he divorced Motown boss Berry Gordy’s daughter Hazel in 1988.”
…either that or its a sign of cruelty.
Its almost as bad as George Foreman naming all of his kids “George”… now, if he named then all “Fred” I would understand.
Fearing food and frightful eating (kottke.org)
Fearing food and frightful eating (kottke.org):
“Dan Barber has a great op-ed in the NY Times today about the benefits of natually-grown food (especially when compared to ridiculous fad diets like Atkins):”
So wait, not eating flour and sugar is a ridiculous fad?
What do these people think Atkins is? Bacon 24/7?
Bother.
my political compass
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15
Nice to know I’m closer to Ghandi and Nelson Mandela, though they were/are probably a lot nicer people than I am.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
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“Hello, is this the FBI?”
“Yes. What do you want?”
“I’m calling to report about my neighbor Billy Bob Smith! He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood.”
“Thank you very much for the call, sir.”The next day, the FBI agents descend on Billy Bob’s house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they bust open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana. They swore at Billy Bob and left.
The phone rings at Billy Bob’s house.
“Hey Billy Bob! Did the FBI come?”
“Yeah!”
“Did they chop your firewood?”
“Yep.”
“Merry Christmas Buddy!”
What number are you?
You Are the Enthusiast
7
You are outgoing and playful – always seeing the happy side to life. You’re enthusiastic and excitable. You love anything new. Multi-talented, you do many things well… and find success easy. You prefer to keep things light with others. Opening up is hard for you.
What number are you?
Just like in Priscilla Queen of the Desert…
You Are From Uranus
You shine with brilliant creativity, and you’re more than a little eccentric. You love everything unusual and shocking. You’re one far-out chick or dude. Anything unconventional excites you – and you have genius potential. Just don’t let your rebel side get the best of you, or else you’ll alienate everyone.
Your original thinking and funky attitude is all you need to be you.
What Planet Are You From?
new blog on the horizon
I created a new blog to hold my rants and political vitriol.
This blog is about me. That blog is about how badly the world is being run.
I’ll be moving posts over slowly.
=:) = fredlet.blogspot.com
Conservatives Urge Closer Look at Marriage
Yahoo! News – Conservatives Urge Closer Look at Marriage:
“‘When you talk about protecting marriage, you need to talk about divorce,’ said Bryce Christensen, a Southern Utah University professor who writes frequently about family issues.
While Christensen doesn’t oppose the campaign to enact state and federal bans on gay marriage, he worries it’s distracting from immediate threats to marriage’s place in society.
‘If those initiatives are part of a broader effort to reaffirm lifetime fidelity in marriage, they’re worthwhile,’ he said. ‘If they’re isolated — if we don’t address cohabitation and casual divorce and deliberate childlessness — then I think they’re futile and will be brushed aside.
I’m not sure what choosing not to have a baby has to do with marriage at all.
Am I a bad person because I got a divorce because my ex-husband decided that it was convenient to let me support him while he stayed up all night playing video games and watching telly? Am I a bad person because, knowing how he let me do all the earning, housecleaning, bill paying and general maintenance to make sure we weren’t destroyed credit-wise (and also by not allowing him to ask for help from our freinds when he should have gotten off of his ass and done a little work himself), know ALL OF THAT about him that I am a bad person because I didn’t let him knock me up, because obviously as a woman my only worth is for reproducing.
If I’m a bad person, so be it.
So, fuck any of you who think that you are protecting marriage by making this about me not having babies and blaming me for choosing to leave someone who obviously didn’t care about me and who really only wanted me around for my paycheck.
Fuck you and I hope you go to your hell and rot for an eternity.
little known?
Sheryl Crow battles ‘obsessed’ stalker; Sigourney Weaver’s alien quest; Mischa Barton to leave ‘The O.C.’?:
“VINES STAR DIAGNOSED WITH MENTAL CONDITION
The Vines frontman Criag Nicholls has been diagnosed with a little-known brain condition called Asperger Syndrome.
Details of the singer’s diagnosis came to light at a criminal hearing in Australia Thursday, where Nicholls faced charges of assault and malicious damage after allegedly kicked a photographer’s camera during a live show in Sydney earlier this year.
After a brief 10-minute hearing at Sydney’s Balmain Local Court, Nicholls left the court saying, ‘I’m free,’ according to Australian newspaper the Herald Sun.
Nicholls was only linked with Asperger Syndrome after one of the Vine’s crew brought it to the band’s management’s attention — even though psychiatrists and psychologists have spent years trying to pinpoint the root cause of his behavior.
The condition causes sufferers to display autistic-like behavior including difficulties with social and communication skills. “
It seems to be the diagnosis celebre of late. I hear about it all the time, but maybe I run in different circles than the hoi polloi.
“The other major characteristic of AS is the socialization deficit, and this too, tends to be somewhat different than that seen in typical Autism. Although children with AS are frequently noted by teachers and parents to be somewhat “in their own world” and preoccupied with their own agenda, they are seldom as aloof as children with Autism. In fact, most children with AS, at least once they get to school age, express a desire to fit in socially and have friends. They are often deeply frustrated and disappointed by their social difficulties. Their problem is not a lack of interaction or interest so much as a lack of effectiveness in interactions. They seem to have difficulty knowing how to “make connections” socially. Gillberg has described this as a “disorder of empathy,” the inability to effectively “read” others needs and perspectives and respond appropriately. As a result, children with AS tend to misread social situations and their interactions and responses are frequently viewed by others as “odd.” “
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…and its funny, but I fit the Asperger’s Syndrome pretty closely.
British hunters seek to end fox-hunt ban
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP – Europe: British hunters seek to end fox-hunt ban:
“The House of Commons enacted the ban in England and Wales, effective Feb. 18, by invoking the Parliament Act for only the fourth time since 1949. The Countryside Alliance contends the Parliament Act was not properly applied. Scotland outlawed hunting with dogs two years ago.
‘What we saw in Parliament yesterday was nothing more than political vandalism,’ said Simon Hart, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance.
If that challenge fails, the Alliance planned a second case arguing the law violated human rights, said spokesman Tim Bonner.”
Yes, because it is a human right to ride on horseback and have a pack of canines descend on another terrified canine animal and have the entire pack rip its body to shreds.
“Oscar Wilde, mocking the parties of red-jacketed gentlemen who thunder through fields on horseback, once labeled the sport “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”"
and then sometimes
When I’m dressed tidily (a.k.a. not in college drag – jeans, tennis shoes and a tshirt) and I’ve just gotten done leading a meeting with my team on the project I am managing, I’m going through the stuff in my head that I’ve gotten done to make sure that tomorrow goes off without a hitch, my grocery list is formulating in my head so that I don’t have to live on frozen food, and I know that my laundry is done (and folded)… then, just for an instant I realize that I might be a grown up…
…until I realize that the song I’m singing under my breath is “Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts.”
