Happy Motherfucking New Year 2

Well, fuck me runnin', has it already been a year? Ok, not quite since I did this last time on New Year's Day.

Time to remember resolutions past and see how we measured up. Oh and maybe make some new ones.

Ok, did y'all click the link and have a gander? No, well, what the fuck are you waiting for?

We're gonna call it 5 out of 10 and I'm not gonna spell 'em out for ya.

As far as the new ones...I think I will do 'em tomorrow. It's still tough typing like this. Hmmm, maybe a resolution there. I may be really literal this year. Ok, go drink and sing Auld Lang Syne.

I wipe my ass with wolverine fur

This won't be a long one as I have only eight usable fingers right now and am on drugs. Prescribed ones, thank you.

Benny's dead and from the grave says Pervy did it. Some Italians disagree and some Asians do too. Of course they both use Syed Saleem Shahzad. Some guy at Time thinks it's Al qaeda and this story in the Times argues my point: this is a horrible situation for Pervy. He wins nothing in this and loses so very much. Including probably control of the nukes so desperately desired by the Batshit Crazy Wing of the Mohammedans. Fucked.

Spartans take on BC tonight. Let's see just how good that Big East is, huh?

Spread THIS!

Soooooooo, TSUN went out and hired a spread offense guru in Richie Rich (hit this link soon as it's his WVU bio), eh?

A guy who's got no ties to TSUN, Ohio or the Big Ten, eh?

Hmmmm, I seem to recall a guy like that coming into town a few years back and having great success against everybody but his arch rival and and in any big game.

But, hey, he runs the spread offense, right? And surely Jimmy T will have no answer for that. Especially if he knows that is what TSUN will be running, since as we are all fond of remembering, he doesn't take that whole rivalry thing very seriously. Nope TSUN is just another game, isn't it?

The Buckeyes are not Rutgers. Wisconsin ain't UCONN. The Illini are not Maryland. Welcome to the Big Ten, Richie Rich.

I guess I make too much shit, someday we'll look back and laugh...

Yeah, Minor Threat really, really rules me lately. That and I remembered what with all the news that Led Zeppelin was and is the greatest rock n' roll band ever. I mentioned that to my wife the other night and she looked at me like I was insane and responded, "Duh." Sons of Thunder indeed.

So what's going on in the world?

The Huck-A-Maniac's asking if Mutt thinks Jesus and Satan are siblings and slamming the Dubya for his bunker mentality on foreign policy. Interesting choice there, Huck. Clearly setting himself up as the conservative candidate for change. Oh he's gonna walk away with this thing if he doesn't implode. And if he doesn't implode in the primaries with the Cheney-ites - who clearly cannot control him - taking shots with wild abandon, he won't do it in the general. Saint Combover, save us.

The Carpet Bagger and The Drug Dealing Al Qaeda Sleeper Candidate are at each other's throats while The Breck Girl coasts along in 3rd while destroying anyone in the GOP in head-to-head polls (the delicious irony of the white 3rd place candidate piling up numbers beyond the woman and the muslim is noted by the Southern Boy with no small amount of disgust for his fellow commies).

The man who would be President has declared that the United States is the the greatest criminal regime ever to have been recognized upon the planet and only through it's systematic destruction can the world be saved.

Unbelievably enough, the Broncos choked and the Bengals gagged. Both to fucking back-up QBs. The bookies made out like fucking bandits on those, huh?

The Jets have the chance to play TSUN to New England's version of the '69 Buckeyes...and Kucinich has a shot at the Democratic nomination. Will the Pats break 100?

The Mitchell Report casts a pall over baseball. Expect a suit from Clemens. But Andy Pettitte's reaction to the report shows just exactly what a class act he is and always will be. No denial. He admits he did it and why he did it - not to get an edge, but to come back from an injury to help his team - and apologizes for doing it.

Share your faith using Hannah Montana? Sounds a tad pedophilic to me, but, ok. Did Jesus have groupies?

In the far off Islamic Republic of Toronto, we have a Muslim father who killed his daughter because she refused to wear the hijab. Religion of peace, baby, and far, far away, huh?

That's all for this miserably rainy, cold and slushy Sunday, kids. Remember, if you're going to cause trouble, carry a gun.

Huck's not so friendly persuasion

Seems Huck has some unwanted help out in Hawkeye country. This is exactly the kinda crap that helped do in Howlin' Howie in Iowa in '04. Granted, Howie had the legions of self-righteously indignant volunteers going door to door insulting people, but still, it's similar. I think it was Kudlow or maybe Eleanor who called Huck "this year's Howard Dean" which may be why I make the reference. But then to read this story, it's odd the coincidence.

To his credit, both Huck and his campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, came out very strongly against the efforts of the former Procter & Gamble Cabal stating in no uncertain terms, "On behalf of Governor Huckabee and his campaign, I ask that these calls be stopped immediately."

Are they playing both sides of the street and just being wildly disingenuous about it? I am sure most of my friends on the left would make that exact case, but regardless, it makes Huck look principled for coming out so forthrightly against this saying, "We don't want this kind of campaigning because it violates the spirit of our campaign."

He's gonna win this thing. Shit. Then what?

About that B-Day/X-Mas Present

I know, I know, I raved about the shaver, but since I couldn't find it anywhere and am not a fan of buying something that intimate online, I called an audible and got Guitar Hero III instead!

It rules, I suck and I love it.

Granted it's for my ol' venerable PS2, but it's enough for me. Grooving along to Social Distortion and Heart and Alice Cooper rules. Rules, I tell you!

It also keeps my mind of off the fact that Huck broke my heart. You broke my heart, Huck.

The bloom is off the Huck

"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents." --Mike Huckabee, 1992

Well, shit, Huck. Ya had me. I was a fan. I was ready to storm the garrison at your side. And then this. Quarantine? Seriously? In 1992? Four years after the Surgeon General explained in a mass mailing called Understanding AIDS that went out to every single home in America that AIDS was not communicable by means other than unprotected sexual contact or sharing needles? Seriously, Huck?

Unless and until you categorically refute those comments and apologize for the ignorance that prompted them, you've lost my vote.

Just in case you need some help doing so, here's what one should look like:

"My friends, in 1992 when I was running for the Senate in Arkansas, I was asked to complete a questionnaire. Some of the questions dealt with AIDS and AIDS funding. In response I wrote something that can only be described as ignorant. Not that this response was mean-spirited, but it came from a place of ignorance which no candidate for Senate should have had. Maybe that's why I lost. Although there was much known about AIDS at that time, I was woefully under-informed. I should have spent more time doing research before voicing an opinion which today makes me cringe to read. Those words came from a place of fear and foolishness. I apologize now for my lack of education then.

I have made a lot of changes in my life since 1992. Heck, just look at me then and now, and you can see it.

I'd like to think that I won't ever make a mistake like that again, but when anybody who talks as much as I do, chances are I will. What I will promise you is that if I do, you won't see me spinning and hemming and hawing. No sir, I will come to you just like this and explain myself. A lot of people were hurt by these words I wrote back then. I am sorry. That kinda sentiment is pretty doggone far from the kinda Christian I'd like to think I am today.

There's no taking back words. They live on once you say them or write them. I take responsibility for them, no one else wrote them, they're mine. But you can educate yourself in the hopes that you won't allow ignorance to let you speak from a place of fear. You can look in your heart and think twice and remember that Jesus didn't call for the lepers to be locked up, he went down among them. With love. As we must. With love in our hearts, not fear, we will make this country a better place for all Americans."

That's just a suggestion, but feel free to use it.

The Buckeyes rule over college football like a great Collossus

Which means that pretty much all of you are looking up at our balls. I know that some of you like that.

Eric questioned my Buckeye pride, so I'll 'splain why this here post is a bit late.

I was hooking up an old VCR so that my darling wife can watch the Korean soap operas she rented while I was in China before realizing that the VCR was not hooked up. It required a trip to PC Richard & Son for a cable. The I got distracted thinking about what I want for my B-Day/X-Mas (which I am combining into one mega-present that's not really that mega when you think about it) and searching out product reviews on various things.

I have decided on the Phllips Noreco Coolskin 8060.



It was between this and the Braun Pulstronic and the Norelco Arcitec, but this won since I can do wet or dry shaving. Yes, for the next few weeks I'm gonna look like I lost a fight with a sand paper bearing Ralph Macchio, until my face is used to it, but in the end it will be worth it.

Now, back to the Buckeyes.



Barring some sort of wildly bizarre incident of voter brutality, we are going to the National Championship. Where we will play the team coached by the man who would have been TSUN's coach. Maybe. Now this will be a darn good match-up of SEC and Big-10. I hope that Matt Flynn will be healthy so that whining Tiger fans will have no excuses when this one's over.

Christ, I hope the Sweater Vest Magic has truly returned after that fucking Illini debacle.