I tried to watch the state of the Union, but watching all the Democrats clap for lines about health care, when the real awful plan is based on robbing working people and defunding public hospitals in NY (where Senator Clinton is from, hmmm) to make tax breaks for healthy yuppies, well, that was too much.
But if you missed the real one, this summary goes down somewhat easier, although it's also painful:
Having blogged David Brin’s worries about blackmail of today’s politicians, I can’t resist noting that the ‘Phantom Professor’ is worrying about the blackmail of today’s students when they become tomorrow’s politicians.
I was doing my first session of brain calisthenics this morning, figuring that I should start now before I get old, and get my cerebellum into really good shape. I know you’re supposed to ease into a new exercise regime, but who knew that translating Proust into Esperanto would really be that hard?
Now I fear I may have pulled or strained something in the noggin department. But maybe if I rest it really hard, it should be better soon.
Anyway, I suspect I won’t be posting much this week.
I’m sorry, but I love lightbulb jokes. And it’s a rare day indeed that I find SIX new ones. But thanks to Games * Design * Art * Culture, I learn how Game Developers Change Light Bulbs.
Sample:
Q: How many art directors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Does it have to be a light bulb?
Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke solves the problem of finding humor in this remarkably horrible daily comic. At first I didn’t think the explanations were funny, but by the end I was roaring. It grows on you, like a certain type of near-surrealism. (Read at least a dozen before you give up.)
Wednesday’s post was entitled I Quit, which made me nervous, but fortunately Mathlete wasn’t serious.
Mathlete does not, however, explain how it can be that newspapers continue to carry this thing.
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