Squid

He was born a poor black sharecropper...

That was a beautiful rant, Bunglehead. If we meet, the first round is on me.

aw, love. Get's me all choked up and sentimental.

Sort of how the Pope views the Mormons.

Cat Stevens was Muslim when Islam wasn't cool I remember he supported the fatwa (sp?) against Salman Rushdie back in the eighties. i'm being followed by a moonshadow.. moonshadow, moonshadow edit : I was scooped!

Cheers to a full life

I was going to post that TR later (she's still passed out and I can't lift her off the couch).

but my TOOF COUNT is zero.

Think of all the skin he could donate to burn victims. and it would be soft and tender.

Call me callous, but that's a waste of resources. Time for some triage, fatty.

What are the dates?

Cubenza?

been awhile, dru?

Faster, Pussycat!!

kinda reaches out and grabs ya!

I just wanted to correct the f'ing typo in the subject line- it was really irritating me. Carry on.

Don't worry- you'll be back in time for Kerry's inauguration. I'll save a seat for you and we can and .

That's a pretty optimistic viewpoint. What some physics profs at the UW consider a 'significant impact' may well differ from MY definition of a significant impact. Still, other sites are being proposed, none of which are in a designated wilderness area, and most of which have pre-existing mines. I've yet to hear a convincing argument why Cashmere is a compelling choice among the US sites.

I just don't think that primary research is the altar on which all other aspects of our lives should be sacrificed. Does the Icicle add meaning to your life? I can think of at least one TR you've posted from there. Will neutrino research make life more meaningful for you?

There are other US locations in competition for hosting this facility- in fact every other location has a substantial mine already constructed. The neutrino research is interesting, if you're interested in neutrinos. Me, not so much. I'm interested in the Icicle valley- that's where I get my rocks off. If a bunch of geeks in lab coats wants to prevent me from getting my rocks off, fuck 'em. The worst part of this argument is when my lab-coated geeky friends look shocked when I let 'em know I'm opposed to DUSEL. They all make faces as if I've said something sacrilegious ("Hey guys, Christ was aiding on those nails. If he was really the son of God he could've freed that cross.") They protest- "But we need neutrino research! You're standing in the way of progress. Who knows where this could lead?" Screw research, screw progress. If it doesn't let me spend more time in the mountains, and if it doesn't keep the mountains pristine, then I don't want it. I don't have to accept your definition of 'progress': cell phones, video games, monster trucks, frozen burritos, instant messaging, wireless networking- none of this shit makes my life richer, and I'd happily sacrifice it all for a single Icicle Valley. Let Canada take all of our best and our brightest, just leave the Icicle Valley alone. Squid has spoken.

SUV's are very necessary for the treacherous & rugged mountain path up to x32. It might not be as bad as you make it out to be- lots of people commute responsibly (bus/bike etc) and then have a biggish monster-truck type thing to get out in the hills. I can't afford to have one vehicle for gas-conscious highway driving, and a separate high-clearance vehicle for dirt rut-fests, so I sold my soul and got something that would go everywhere I wanted to go, and bike-commute during my 9-5. Is that hypocrisy? Sure. It's my compromise between competing ideals. If you run around deriding every compromise, you're setting yourself up for some fine self-loathing. unless, of course, you have no ideals.....

No, thank god.

Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is regulated by the EPA, not the FDA. The EPA has maintained since 1993 that ETS is a significant health hazard. link Everyone knows this is bogus science paid for by rich urban Subaru-driving marriage-undermining homosexual atheist sport-climbing tofu-marinading job-outsourcing war-protesting Bosch-bolting cold-dead-finger-prying metrosexual environmentalists who go by the mysterious name Climbers 4Kerry !!!

Nope. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

A cc.com classic.