Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

4.26.2007

As The Very Shallow Legislature . . .

. . . votes to slap down Gov. Rick Perry on his optional HPV vaccine for young girls, I couldn't help but notice this ad in the Dallas Morning News today.

Maybe some of our school kids today will get to join this study someday because our legislature was too stupid to care about the prevention of cancer.

Edit: In light of one of the most bizarre comments I've ever seen (summary: only sluts get cervical cancer caused by HPV), you might want to check here.

"Several people?"

"Believed to be" trapped? In Turkey? And that's "breaking news?"

Hey, there's more carnage than that on the roads of DFW today.

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Cover of the DMN This Morning

And Dallas' Josh Howard was called for the foul.

Can I Have Some Money, Too?

I'm not exactly sure why a private company gets a "grant" (that is free money that is taxpayer money, isn't it?) when other private companies have to compete without that benefit. Then again, I suppose its similar to a tax abatement.

U Want 2 Do What 2 Me 4-Eva?

It's a crazy world. The Boston College girls hockey coach was fired after allegedly sending "filthy" text messages to one of his freshman players (that's her on the right) with a bio here. (He probably would have just been suspended if they were sent to the girl on the left.)

I would like to give my professional opinion as to whether or not they were indeed "filthy" but they haven't been released yet. Developing. . .

4.25.2007

I'm Getting Out My Dress Blues . . .

. . . if I see one more commercial for the DVD release of "A Night At The Museum." I haven't seen it, but it looks like a movie that would beat me down.

Mavs Try To Bounce Back Tonight

I'm seriously concentrating on the game. Maybe.

Rangers Announcers Go Insane

It was 41 degrees in Cleveland tonight as the camera panned to these shirtless Cleveland Indian fans in a game against the Texas Rangers:

Then the camera cuts to the TV booth and we see Tom Grieve and Josh Lewin:

Grieve is 59 years old.

News You Can Use

BENTONVILLE -- A Bentonville man asked the city to pay his two sons $20,000 and to fire the library director for including what he called "pornography" in the Bentonville Public Library collection.

"The Whole Lesbian Sex Book" by Felice Newman was removed from the library shelf after Earl Adams of Bentonville complained it is "patently offensive and lacks any artistic, literary or scientific value," according to a letter he wrote and faxed Feb. 16 to Mayor Bob McCaslin.

Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons, Kyle and Ryan, looked at the book while the 14-year-old was browsing for material on military academies. He requested the city pay him $10,000 per child, the maximum allowed under the Arkansas obscenity law.

"My sons were greatly disturbed by viewing this material and this matter has caused many sleepless nights in our house," he said in another e-mail to McCaslin earlier in February.

Story. Those poor boys. How will they ever recover?

Edit: Youtube even has an educational video here which I refuse to link to.

Before I Forget

Happy Administrative Assistant's Day

Hey, Now . . . . .. Oh, Wait

Political Junkies Of The Local Persuasion

There is not a link to it yet, but check out local Republican guru D.A. Sharpe's editorial in the Messenger today.

Random Thought

I watched the first two seasons of "Lost" on DVD and went from loving it to being bored with it. There's more freakin' people on that deserted island than there are in the Decatur Walmart on Saturday afternoon. And that's a lot of people.

4.24.2007

Mobile Blog

Northbound 287 between Rhome and Decatur shut down due to flooding. Pics coming. Traffic backed up for miles.

Edit (click to enlarge):

This pic taken as I was coming up on the flooding (taken while heading southbound). That's the northbound lanes completely under water: