Ireneo_Funes

So Jay, you don't think what happened in Florida in 2000 could be accurately characterized as "manipulating an election"?

The distinction between the two might be fairly slight in some parts of the world. Whether you condone these images or condemn them, you have to agree they have the potential to work as powerful propaganda images for terrorist recruiters.

The real question is how much does she know about Arabian horses.

Bummer about the errors, but I'm looking forward to getting a copy. Have fun on your road trip.

Bush the Younger is more of a Nero type, anyway.

that is the

Maybe the horse was more qualifed than the average senator romanus? Suetonius, the source for most of the wacky stories about the Caesars, says that Caligula merely intended to make his favorite horse consul. It didn't actually happen. Whatever. It was a long time ago.

everybody's got after that by now

Sobo's correct.

Dru has the purtiest mouth of all.

Is it: Johnny Train's the baby in the house or Johnny trains the baby in the house or....?

hobbyhorse

I didn't say people shouldn't think for themselves. I just meant that building a relationship with a spiritual mentor doesn't necessarily mean shopping around for the priest with the best cirriculum vitae.

Most people I know who go to church or otherwise participate in an religious community don't seem to think about a priest's or pastor's qualifications in these kind of terms (years of schooling, certificates, whatever). I think a person who trusts someone enough to seek counseling is basing that trust on something less tangible than a diploma. And I don't think that's a bad thing at all.

5.8 or so.

Unbelievably, my boss has been bringing in beer (and popsicles?!?) for the office every Friday for the last few weeks.

So what happened with the skeleton and his beer?

c'mon, like that would ever happen!

It's important to remember that Germany in the 20s and 30s was a pretty screwed up place.

Um, yeah. Working, me too.

That's a four-year-old with a finely developed sense of the absurd, that's what it is.

Historical note: that knock-knock joke has been around since the Van Buren administration.

His final project "Doo Bop" is a good example of this. Except that no one liked that album, as far as I know. That's the one with the terrible rapping, right?

You met THE Mike Layton? Hard to believe he shops at Fred Meyer just like the rest of us.