Dr_Flash_Amazing

Ha Ha Ha, . . your Jedi mind tricks won't work on me Distal. He's still proximal at this point, isn't he?

Sheer ineptitude?

Or if you were on the corner, bumpin' the fat beats and having a breakin' battle and the boombox turned back into your Impala!

The red book is also no longer available. Oops!

Fight chalk with chipping? Interesting proposition.

Sheesh. Most people bring along guidebooks and use them as you describe because it makes sense to do so. Most people don't want to spend the time to drive to their destination crag in order to blindly flounder up some unenjoyable chosspile, aborted 5.15 project, or merely mediocre grovelfest. Using the guidebook as a reference allows people to make informed decisions about what they are climbing, and to find something within their ability to climb. The idea that this is somehow detrimental to the climbing experience seems backwards, wrong, and stupidly puritanical. As for the green chalk route names and ratings, sure, it sounds kind of stupid, especially given the apparently obvious route layout. At least it was in chalk, though, and not paint. And DFA has encountered similar use of chalk or black charcoal at Maple Canyon, which is quite helpful at crags with many new routes that are not in the book or with routes that have different starts but share anchors or whatever. It helps spread the word, and when the word is spread, the chalk or charcoal can easily be brushed off. Not the end of the world! Like any other practice, moderation and forethought go a long way.

A more concise letter to President Bush: Dear fucker, Fuck off. Hatefully, Dr. Flash Amazing (feel free to copy it, replace the name with your own, and send it off to gwbush@president.gov)

Size 43?! What're you, Sideshow Bob?

On the NSAIDS topic, persons pursuing a course of anti-inflammatory treatment should look into bromelain. Good stuff, if used properly and intelligently.

Ooohhhh ... smack'ems!

Texas, Texas, Texas ... 61 degrees and partly cloudy at the mudpile! Come, clip some bolts, dog some classics, and bask in the high desert sun!

If you think Republicans are somehow above politics and bullshit backscratching political maneuvers, etc., you're delusional. Wake up, dumbfuck.

Why stop with the Bush-hate now? It's time to get warmed up, 'cause you can bet your ass the next four years are going to require every ounce of hate, rage, and disgust you can deliver!

REMF? = Rear-entry Motherfucker?

If you think America should have to live with crazy, dangerous, depressing politicians and politics, you belong in one of those countries, groveling under some dictatorial regime. Sheesh!

Why would anyone give a fuck what you do or do not think about THK?

"If we are against you then we are against you because you're a: TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF! criminal with protection of the law"

Figures. Nader man, no doubt?

That reminds DFA of another thing he thought of this morning. We wouldn't be in this, to quote C3PO, "ridiculous position," had the 2k election clusterfuck not been decided in the Texas Terror's favor.

Would you go out for one of those branches knowing you'd be risking getting a Special Forces-caliber wedgie from Mike Adamson every day? Chilling!

Ever stop to wonder why we're not?

3) At least the converse or inverse or obverse or corollary or whatever of #2 is four more years of inspired, righteously raging punk rock music. Should be a banner few years for Anti-Flag et. al.

"to end terror it takes a special skill KILL KILL KILL 'til there's nothing left to kill! pull on the trigger with heart and soul 'cause war is peace, now we know"

One of the first things that went through DFA's head this morning when the alarm went off and NPR announced Kerry's concession. Damn scary, to be sure. Just trying to stick to one topic for the sake of a coherent debate.

Per your first point, that's very generous, and may be true, but then again, appearances can, and do, deceive. Secondly, that seems pretty spot on. There have been some quotes from people in his administration to the effect that they create their own reality, which goes a long way toward explaining this aspect of his persona.