I’m not the world’s finest user of punctuation (or grammar for that matter), but I’m absolutely delighted by the idea of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Which is, I hasten to point out, on my Amazon wish list.

Yes. I’m a bit of a language nut. Now you know. Oh, and bonus points for anyone who knows the origin of the entry title…

(I got 92% Stickler on the game, too. Hah!)

Via The Average Bear, I give you The Day After Tomorrow In Fifteen Minutes. (And, really, you should take in some of the other In Fifteen Minutes riffs… the Van Helsing entry is utterly priceless…)

If I was just a teeny bit more clever, I’d try something along those lines. Hell yeah.

Via Jack Bog’s Blog, a few dozen bullet points as to why Bush should go down in history as, among other things, a one-term head of state. Including:

I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.

I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I took the world’s sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world.

Oh, just go read the whole thing yourself… if you’re inclined to revisit the reasons why we should all be disgusted with our current so-called leadership…

get Bush out of office

The recent migration of the Amish Tech Support Dead Pool (2004 edition) seems as good an excuse as any to list the picks I’d made last December for this year’s run. (Last year, for what it’s worth, I managed one measley death out of my entire roster. This proves, yet again, my complete lack of precognitive power.)

So here are my 2004 picks, in alphabetical order:

Astin, John
Brando, Marlon
Dawson, Richard
Falwell, Jerry
Garner, James
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Hefner, Hugh
Ioccoca, Lee
Kasem, Casey
Lee, Stan
McCullough, David
Palmer, Arnold
Stevens, Cat
Taylor, James
Thatcher, Margaret

DISCLAIMER: Yes, yes, this is sick and wrong and reprehensible and God will probably punish me, yadda yadda yadda. He was going to do that anyway, so I doubt that my participation in the Dead Pool will matter that much in the final reckoning.

Oh wait, I’m agnostic, so I don’t really believe in that crap anyway. Alright then, bring on the falling celebrities!

ATS Dead Pool 2004

You know those holier-than-thou folk who hate everything big and successful on general principles and who worship the most obscure personalities and brands?

Yeah, okay. I was one of those too, once. But I’m in recovery. Anyway… read the following diatribe. Nuff said.

(Found via a comment thread on Jack Bog’s Blog.)

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