I love polls, and I would like your assistance in formulating one. I was listening to clips of the Demoncratic debate on Morning in America this morning, and was amused at Clinton inserting her Size 8s into Obama’s backside over and over again. The poll questions will be “Which Hillary Do You Prefer?”. What I need help with is the various faces she has taken on in the last 20 years. There have been so many, that I have a hard time keeping track. A few come to mind: The Ball Busting Hillary (e.g. at the debate), The Weepy Patriot Hillary (e.g. New Hampshire crocodile tears over how much she loves her country), The Contemptuous Hillary (e.g. her treatment of Arkansas troopers and Secret Service), The “I’m Just a Girl” Hillary (e.g. the New York senatorial debate where the opponent got “too close” to her): The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Victim Hillary (re: Monica Lewinsky), and The Stand By Your Man Hillary (re: Jennifer Flowers). Do you have additional suggestions?

I was in Dallas over the weekend on business, and took my daughter along with because we have friends down there (Maggie Katzen and Gradual Dazzle) and I like to travel with her. Anyway, we fly out of Minneapolis – St. Paul International Airport, and you can imagine my surprise when we were flagged by the airline (which shall go unnamed) for special security screening. I don’t know if I was too nice to the lady who took our luggage (i.e. I appeared suspiciously nice, or she thought I would not make a fuss over the extra hassle) or whether it was a truly random screening. Anyway, we get over to the security checkpoint, and they take us aside, and give our carry on an extra look over and swab it for bomb materials. They pat me down, which I don’t have a problem with — as far as I’m concerned, they should pat down every male between the ages of 15 and 50 if they want. The absurd part was that they patted down my 5 year old daughter. RTO over at the Signaleer, who would know far better than I the logic of what they were doing due to his service in Afghanistan, explained to me that for checks to be effective, they truly need to be random. I realize it has become almost passe to complain about airport security, but does anyone think that what they are doing is making any of us safer in a meaningful way? It was my understanding that 9/11 happened because the hijackers were able to gain access to the flight cabin — a problem that has been done away with. It seems like everything since has been overkill. Sure, I can appreciate it is probably not a good idea to allow knives, lighters, and box cutters aboard, but do we really need to ban fingernail clippers and hair gel? And now, there are these extra restrictions regarding batteries, which I don’t really understand. Given the fact that airport employee security is porous at best–is anyone confident that insiders can’t get stuff on board a plane that should not be there–are these extra hassles really doing us any good? Anyway, I thought I would throw the topic to the comments, since it interests me. Out of respect, I will not identify the airline that flagged my 5 year old daughter as a terror suspect. Maybe they heard that she had was double gold stripe Karate expert?

Washington D.C. (AP) President Bush will announce a two phase plan to reinvigorate the nation’s economy at a White House press conference tomorrow. Phase I of the Bush plan calls for removal of the Capitol Rotunda and its replacement with the world’s largest commode. Phase II calls for the collection of $150 Billion of taxpayer money, which will then be thrown into the gigantic crapper and flushed away.

and would like to speak with you about some truly exciting real estate investment opportunities in the Reno area.

BBC News, Hong Kong — Hoping to siphon off support from Barack Obama, the first viable black Presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton completed treatment today at a local research hospital to become “the first colored Presidential candidate.” Clinton modified her genetic structure utilizing jellyfish DNA so that she now glows pale green in the dark. The technique was perfected earlier this year in animal experiments involving pigs. Researchers indicated at a press conference that the procedure was successful because Clinton’s genetic structure is almost identical to that of a sow. Clinton, who has been traveling on the campaign trail with her husband and former President Bill Clinton for the past four months, stated that she thought her pale green pallor would appeal to voters and matched nicely with the blue glow emanating from her husband’s crotch.

When looking for an Aquaman costume source photo, I came across a flickr account that has to be seen to be believed. As you can see below, he takes the Aquaman character in interesting directions. Have a gander at his gallery. (It is all SFW–at times slightly disturbing, but SFW). I swear I saw that coffee table and chair in Frank’s living room . . .

UPDATE — don’t stray far from the page I linked to if not at home — apparently there are some NSFW photos in his larger gallery — who’d have thunk a bondage loving cosplay Aquaman fan would be into trouser snakes?

Continue reading ‘’ »