News Flash: Joe goes...

Well it seems that Mr. Lieberman got the high sign sometime last night. We are now down by three of the original big nine in the 2004 edition of presidential Survivor. For those of you keeping score at home we have now lost Carol Mosely Braun, Dick Gephardt, and Lieberman in that order. Now Senator Joe can go back to telling us what we should or shouldn't be listening to, watching or reading. The biggest surprise so far has got to Gephardt's premature withdrawal, after a disappointing finish in Iowa. All of which leaves Dennis Kucinich and Rev. Al Sharpton in a dead heat for last place. More on this as it develops.

It's about friggin time-

In a stunning display of waking up and SMELLING THE DAMN COFFEE the Massachusetts High Court (State Supreme Flavor) handed down a ruling that said "that nothing short of allowing gays full-fledged marriage is legal in the state..." As a practical matter this means two things: Massachusetts is about to experience an economic windfall the likes of which you cannot even conceive, and we can expect a national test-case sometime after May 17th. Seems Mass. has no state residency requirements for marriage meaning that a couple can go there, tie the not, move back to there own state and demand the legal recognition promised to them under article IV of the constitution. Eventually this will all lead to the question of amending the constitution so that for the first time it actually takes away the rights of US CITIZENS. Things is about to get a might interesting out Washington way...

No...No...No No NO NO!!

I know that the 007 movies are not everyone's cinematic cuppa Joe, but I cannot begin to even fathom how bad an idea this is. No. Don't do it, if you really want to know why rent Crossroads. Make sure you bring your shrimp fork along so you can jam it in to your jugular vein to take the pain away.

Castro's Junkyard Wars

I'm certainly not trying to make light of the situation these poor people find themselves in. God only knows where I'd be if my father's grandparents hadn't been able to get the hell out of Germany when they did. (Although, they tell me that the 'Von' prefix that got chopped of my name at the intake station indicated landed gentry. Hmmm...I wonder if I have a castle somewhere.) So here is my question: why are we turning these people away? Clearly we should be taking them in and sending them to engineering school. They took a 59' Buick and made it into a boat fer pity's sake. Not only that, this is the second time. For my money, anyone who wants to be American that badly gets in. The next time you can't decide if you really want something, consider whether or not you would be willing to lash a car to some Oil drums and sail the ocean to get it.

Now where am I gonna take Susie after the prom?

Thai officials banned cockfighting* yesterday in an effort to quell the spread of avian flu. Okay, go back and read that last sentence one more time. Banned. Cock. Fighting. Clearly, this is going in the "too weird not to be true" file. I didn't even know that cockfighing was still legal, all this time I've been wasting reading books and going to college I could have been in Thailand watching armed birds try to kill each other. News of the ban was said to have a chilling effect on plans for a US national bear-baiting team...

(*Sorry if you punched the word "cock" into your search engine, and ended up here by mistake. I've got no Porno for ya.)

No linkage tonight--More tomorrow-

J