I heart puppies!

Over on my triathlon forum, someone posed the question "what does 'I support the troops' mean"? And it touched off something I've been harboring for a long time. You can't drive anymore without tailgating someone sporting a yellow magnetic ribbon on the back of their car. "I support the troops" is about as empty a sentiment as you can have. You support the troops? Well golly, that's awesome!

Seriously, who *doesn't* support the troops? You may love or hate or not give a fuck about the war, but you'd have a pretty hard time finding someone who doesn't appreciate the job soldiers do. It's like having a bumper sticker saying "I love puppies." Or "breathing". Duh! Everyone does! You don't need to waste your breath telling us something that should be painfully obvious.

Now, if someone wants to float a magnetic ribbon saying "I hate the troops", now there's a position worthy of telling people. I wouldn't agree with you, but damn, a statement like that takes balls. Dare to share an original thought once in a while, and your life will be infinitely more interesting.

It's just common sense, part 2

It's just common sense

Everyone loves boners

Thanks to Rhonda for this. I don't know if these boners are real or not (snopes is mum on boners), but really, I don't even care. If they're fake boners, it's interesting that someone would make the effort to so meticulously photoshop so many great boners into old Batman panels. And if they're real boners, well, I guess the opium was flowing freely when the boners were conceived--there are so many boners(!). But whatever, someone really loves boners.

So I've got that going for me

Last night, Alice, the world's snarkiest copy editor (or a cuddly little ball of hate, depending on who you talk to) said Holly said I was the hippest parent she knows.



(bows deeply)

Exquisitely sufferable

Amy (to Nola): Daddy's sense of humor is completely insufferable.

Jim: Obviously not, since you've been suffering it for 16 years. It's obviously entirely sufferable. Eminently sufferable.

Exquisitely sufferable.

A (to N): See what I mean?

Ann Coulter is awesome

First of all, she's as sexy as a $5 whore (WWJD? He probably wouldn't get all tarted up to sell his books, that's for sure..). But really, the woman sure speaks her mind. And I love that, god knows I do. Opinions are sexy, even if you don't agree with them. Even if they're filled with hate, vile and vitriol. And mostly, even if they're not based in fact. But what's really awesome about Ann is her total lack of duplicitousness. As evidence, I present this, the disclaimer from the "forum rules"in her official forum, on her official website:

"All debate must be honest and fair."

If only...