5.29.2004

album of the month

Terrorist Profiteers

The Best things Bush 43 ever did:

Golf Tip: Think Baseball.

From The Square to Square Golf Swing by Dick Aultman

Golf Tip of the Week: 7 o'clock

Apartment #4

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) by Christopher Hitchens

It is easy to summarize the foulness of the Thatcher years: the combination of Malthus and Ayn Rand that went to make up her social philosophy; the police mentality that she evinced when faced with dissent; the awful toadying to Reagan and now Bush; the indulgence shown to apartheid; the coarse, racist betrayal of Hong Kong; the destruction of local democracy and autonomous popular institutions. Yet every Tory in the House had voted gleefully for all of those things, and one of them, her newly anointed clone, John Major, has disagreed with Thatcher only from the right. While on the ostensible issue of principle, a common European system. Labor's conversion has been too late and too shallow to be convincing.

From an article in The Nation called "Lessons Maggie Taught Me" 
December 17, 1990

Future Water Ski Tricks.

1. The Bee Sting 2.Reverse Lipstick 3.Pancake 4. Cat's Cradle 5. Tomahawk 

Top Murphy's

1. Dale Murphy (athlete)

2. Murphy Bed (product)

3. Murphy's Law (adage)

4. Murphy Brown (TV show)

5. Brittney Murphy (actor)

6. Chris Murphy (senator)

7. Eddie Murphy (actor)

8. Dylan Murphy (Seinfeld)

9. Murphy's Oil Soap (product)

10. Charlie Murphy (Chappelle Show)

Roger Ebert 1942-2013

"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" co-written by Roger Ebert

"Siskel and Ebert"

Band name: Casual Ecosystem

March Madness: Historic events

1. 3/10/1862 The first United States paper money was issued. The denominations were $5, $10, and $20. 

2. 3/17/1845 The first rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London.

3. 3/191994 The largest omelet (1,383² ft) in the world was made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan.

4. 3/27/1790 The first shoelaces were invented

5. 3/5/1963 Arthur K. Melin received U.S. Patent for a Hoop Toy aka the hula-hoop.

6. 3/2/1969 Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic airline, roared into the skies on its maiden flight. The aircraft will travel at twice the speed of sound.

7. 3/7/1876 The Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone.

8.  3/15/44 B.C.Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius,

9.3/3/1931Star Spangled Banner adopted as National Anthem of the United States, 

10. 3/13/1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

Flashback: M.U.S.C.L.E.

1985-1988

1. spring

2. Israel

3. gun control

4. Pope Francis

5. sleep studies

6. bracketology

7. Thai recipes 

8. hiccup remedies

9. Wes Welker

10. Omnichord

beaker.

Adjustment tips.

1. To the left.

2. Loosen up.

3. twist.

4. look up.

5. duck.

Five Reasons Why Texas is #1 at sucking.

1. Ranked first hazardous waste generated.

2. Number one in Carbon Dioxide emissions.

3. Number one in teen pregnancies.

4. Number one in the number of uninsured.

5. Ted Cruz.

My Uncles Wedding.

Theories: Origin of the Universe.

 

1. a kernel shape

2. a flash followed by a snap

3. a cell spinning

4. dust particle accident

5. water vapor