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Halloween posponed; now airing bordom.

Hopefully this image will help undermine the anger felt by all those like myself. As it FOX would air a stupid baseball game instead of a Simpsons Halloween episode. HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD!?

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xkcd comic

Happy Birthday to the late Bob Kane

Yooper song

Ole Pete Bateese
from "Lore of the Lumbercamps"
Ole Pete Bateese got chase one night
By wolf up by de Soo
Dese wolf dey t'ree, four in de pack
And dey scare him tru and tru.

Pretty soon ole Pete climb up a tree;
He t'ink he stay awhile.
Dese wolf dey sit down in de snow
And lick dere chops and smile.

Pretty quick two wolf go trot away;
Pete t'ink de rest soon go.
Pretty quick dese wolf come right back;
Pete's spirits dey sink low.

For w'at you t'ink dese wolf dey got?
Big beaver—one? No—two!
Dey set dem down beside dat tree
And say, "by gar, now chew."

Dose beaver start in chew dat tree;
Dey chew like beat de band.
Pete t'ink he soon be on de groun'
Unless he take a hand.

So Pete pull out his one-quart hooch
And let it run out slow.
It trickle down de trunk to where
Dose beaver chew below.

Dose beaver dey get drunk, by gar.
Dey don't see none too good.
Dey make mistake and chew de wolf
Instead of chew de wood.

Dose wolf run 'way, and Pete climb down
And sit down in de snow.
And cry and cry to t'ink for where
His one-quart hooch she go.

From Mark Twain's "A Pen Warmed in Hell"

Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date 1900)

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
His lust is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps;
I have read his boomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps--
His night is marching on.

I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal;
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel;
Lo, greed is marching on!"

We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;
Greed is seeking out commercial souls befor his judgment seat;
O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet!
Our god is marching on!

In a sorid slime harmonious, Greed was born in yonder ditch,
With a longing in his bosom--and for others' goods an itch--
As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich--
Our god is marching on. Mark Twain

Lenin the nihilist

I recently read The Life and Death of Lenin by Robert Payne and thought I would transcribe a short excerpt that I found amusing. Oh, Krupskaya is Lenin's wife. The story is as follows:

In the spring of 1915 Krupskaya's mother died. There is a story that one night Krupskaya left her vigil by here mother's bedside and went to bed, after asking her husband to wake her if her mother needed her. Lenin went on working. During the night his mother-in-law died. When Krupskaya awoke the next morning to find her mother dead, she turned to hewr husband and asked him why he failed to wake her. "You Told me to wake you if your mother needed you," Lenin answered. "She died. She didn't need you." (pg. 250)

If you decide to read a biography on Lenin, I would recomend a differnt author. Payne tends to run on with his sentences. He also leaves out world events where most other authors would make reference to for the sake of historical context. I do like the statue of the monkey looking at the human skull, it sat on Lenin's desk.

Ego Trip

If I were to, for some reason, have the opportunity to name an NEO (Near Earth Object), a large asteroid, an Earth Killer if you will, I would name it after myself. What an ego trip. News readers around the world, voices quivering in fear, repeating over and over again: "The best minds of the world are focusing all of their efforts to prevent Leif from destroying civilization as we know it. Though all of humanities resources are being utilized in the on going effort to stop Leif authorities warn us to prepare for the worst. So pray to whatever god you believe in because it appears nothing short of divine intervention can stop Leif from unleashing his wrath upon Earth." What an ego trip.