Baltimore Celebrates Soft Shell Crabs!

Rob reacts, 'What!!!???'

I know. I also think of Baltimore as a hard shell crab kind of place.

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize and Every Other Award in the Universe

Seriously my first thought is that the New York Times has been taken over by The Onion and I'm going to read a multi-paragraph essay on Obama as the greatest man ever to live. Which he probably is, but it still makes me giggle.

I'm still not entirely convinced.

Now back to work on my speech celebrating the 2nd and 3rd people ever given this blog's address.

"When it leaves here, it does not have any cocaine in it"

Best spokeswoman quote draws me out of retirement. What a strange set of studies to run, and how awesome to need to justify whether the printers impregnate currency with cocaine:

Money can become contaminated with cocaine during drug deals, or when users snort the substance through rolled bills. It can then spread to other cash when banks process the money.

Zuo said his research shows an increase in contaminated U.S. cash. In a similar study two years ago, he found that 67 percent of bills had traces of cocaine.

I'm listening to:
The Dodos- Time to Die

Now: Taxation WITH representation!

So hooray for Washington! But this gun-control language... why does it have me singing about bad- idea jeans:

"We want the law-abiding citizens to have the arms--not just the criminals,"

Thanks Senator Ensign. And now that I have kids, I feel a lot better having a gun in the house

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Zim Zimma / who's got the keys to my Zimmer

Well if this doesn't make you sick to your stomach, I don't know what will:

Once, he said wistfully, he made $1,300 on a single transaction, when a religious charity needed to convert $8,000 in donor funds to Zimbabwean dollars.

Oh, development

give it up Georgia

Can you believe the nerve of some people, questioning our societal right to put people to death as a punishment for their crimes:

“Unfortunately, you have people who say they’re willing to consider the death penalty, but when they get on a jury, it becomes clear that they’re actually death penalty opponents,” said Representative Barry A. Fleming, a Harlem Republican who twice sponsored efforts to revoke the unanimity requirement.

I want to say something more sophisticated than 'jerk' or 'douche', but I'm really having trouble this morning not being angry that someone can be upset that anyone could come in to a trial perhaps undecided, and then come to a decision that maybe, just maybe, the death penalty isn't an appropriate punishment.
Brian Nichols' crimes are heinous. But he can sit it out.


I'm listening to:
Puccini- Madame Butterfly.

Now is the time on Schprokets when we dance!

Never first on the scene, I do really like the idea of Mike Myers returning to SNL to play Rod Blagojevich:











I'm listening to:
Aphex Twin- Richard D James Album

maradona breaks the blog silence

ok, I know it's obama day and go vote and this is a blog, but come on:
MARADONA is back.

hell yes:

In 1994 and 1995, he piloted two Argentine club teams to just three wins in 23 games, and he was once forced to call the shots from the stands because a suspension for ephedrine use prevented him from sitting on the bench.

I'm listening to:
Biostatistics. Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose

pagination

In idle anticipation of tomorrow's July 1ness, I just checked my pager.

I am Available: Long Range.


I'm listening to:
Bjork- Selmasongs

Most Informative Headline Ever

Wilber Hardee Dies at 89; Founded Restaurants

And I'm spent.

Spaceheads for Obama

“In many ways, he really will be the first woman president,”

Megan Beyer apparently does not want Barack Obama to be our country's next president.


I'm listening to:
Five Years Time- Noah & the Whale

a franchise per patient

I'm not sure where to take this one, but I do know I think it's awesome that there are more McDonald's in the United States than cases of tuberculosis:

McDonald’s is rolling out the sandwich in all 14,000 of its restaurants in the United States, in what the company says is one of its biggest product introductions this year.

Compared with 13,779 in 2006.


I'm listening to:
The Pixies- Trompe le Monde

houskeeping

Observations that make me want to have my own Twitter:

1. I am grateful to the courteous monkeys who stayed on the stoop rather than invading my room. Respect.

2. Xenophobia is the new car-jacking. Discuss.

3. Noted on a patient's data form: High risk occupation- lumbar farmer. I didn't know they let neurosurgeons in to my study.


I'm listening to:
The Pixies- Surfer Rosa

be strong, bitches

I guess I haven't been in the states for a minute, because my first thought on the latest in the Florida and Michigan delegates is "gasp: people are still wearing the lance armstrong bracelets."

Is this true? Comments are open...


I'm listening to:
Leonard Cohen- The Future
a mistake I'll not make again

In an irony I hope to milk forever, the boy I'm not seeing left me with new music and a computer virus.

Breaking news: Many Women Plan to See the 'Sex and the City' Movie in Groups. Film at 11.

There are, naturally, many ridiculous quotes in this article. But only one is good enough to force me out of my blog-ernation (I just made that up. Can you tell?)

26 percent of those who responded planned to see the film “with the whole gang.”

Really? Not only are you taking the time to fill out a Fandango questionnaire, you are also dragging your cute posse with matching bomber jackets in to this? My guesses on ther other prompts: 'all by my lonesome,' 'with my honey' and 'I think your survey is stupid.'

Only 7.5 hours of my awesome 36 hours home remain. This is a low...


I'm listening to:
Blur- Parklife.