Iron Fist

I always feel like a bit of an ignoramus when people hold a demonstration in my city, and I find that I actually have no idea what is going on in Burma to warrant this.  Fortunately for me, I work a desk job these days, which means that if nothing too pressing has come up I can spend the first hour of my day reading the news on the BBC.

I know that today was Blog Action Day, and I was supposed to write about the environment, but I didn’t have much to say about it except to note that I burned very few hydrocarbons today, which is good because I am told we are running out and now have to steam them out of big piles of Canadian sand, which is only slightly less ludicrous an idea than turning our topsoil into car fuel by way of making into corn first (apparently no one remembers the Dust Bowl these days).

I am short on sleep and long on thinking today.

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And now, for today’s round-up of stuff going on in the world:

• Bush gave his State of the Union address, which I confess I neither really read beyond the first paragraph, nor listened to. I did read a different state of the union piece, which sadly was probably more accurate.
• Corretta Scott King died today in a clinic in Rosarito, a town in Baja California. Apparently the physicians at the clinic had no idea who she was at first, since she checked in under a different name. Anyway, her body was brought back to the U.S., where one of my inside sources in San Diego said it spent the night at a funeral home across the street from her work. Her relatives are arranging to have her remains flown to Atlanta.
• The freighter that ran aground in Ensenada is still totally stuck there. Those of us in the Northwest that remember what a goddamn ordeal it was when the New Carrissa ran aground in Coos Bay would like to say, “Good luck, amigos.” (More rad photos of the ship available here.)
• Samuel Alito gets sworn into the Supreme Court. Enjoy it while it lasts, dickhead. Once I come into power I’m abolishing the Supreme Court anyway. That’s right, I’ll be making all the fucking decisions around here, not those tools. Sheesh.
• Speaking of tools, Molly Ivins calls out the Democrats for being spineless pussies. And about time, too. Grow some nads, dudes.

I’m sure there were other interesting things on the Internet today, but I can’t be bothered to look them up.

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Today was a sad day. I decided to check my real mail for once (not my email, which I check constantly because I’m a nerd) and received my latest catalog from Loompanics Unlimited, which featured the headline “Announcing The Great Loompanics Going Out of Business Sale!“

This was clearly cause for consternation. I discovered Loompanics a few months back (I don’t exactly remember how) and decreed it to be by far and away the coolest book store I’ve ever come across. I mean, sure, you can find some of these books on Amazon, but would you ever have gone looking for some of these? Only in the Loompanics catalog did I discover this many kick-ass, out-there books concentrated in one place.

And now they’re going out of business. Which is bad. But, they’re offering everything they have for 50% off. Which is good. So if you ever wanted to learn how to make fake ID, or take out a tank by yourself, or build a catapult, or use a bullwhip, or go Dumpster diving, or start your own country, or live as a hobo, or get out of paying your taxes, or any other number of things you probably won’t be able to find out about anywhere else, check out this bookstore. Soon. They’re selling stuff off like crazy.

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Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

Man. What a dick.

Really, this is just one more reason why I need to be in charge of things around here. Seriously, dudes, if it was me running this country? Goddamn.

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