I think I mentioned that posting would be a bit off the usual schedule for the rest of the month...that's certainly going to be the case this week. I'll be filling in for Greg over at Plum Line while he takes a much-deserved break. Regular readers know the drill -- I'll probably still post one or two items over here each day, with the rest of it over there.
Meanwhile, if you missed the Sunday Questions, there's still plenty of time to contribute, and I enjoyed the answers I've seen so far to both of them. How about a Boxing Day supplement, though: yesterday, I asked for your sincere gifts to people in the political world; if you want to bring the snark, how about using them here? Any "gift" ideas you had that didn't fit into the Sunday Questions restrictions?
Monday, December 26, 2011
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A month's worth of native-Maine rainbow trout for every member of Congress who's against the new EPA rules.
ReplyDeleteIn case you're wondering why I like the new rules, Maine's freshwater fish guidelines here: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/environmental-health/eohp/fish/2kfca.htm
For all the GOP candidates: a brain.
ReplyDeleteFor the GOP base: a heart.
For Barack Obama: courage.
zic - what about the Congressmen who voted to ban incandescent bulbs and force people to use those CFL's with mercury in them?
ReplyDeleteCouves, I'll give them my flickering-light triggered migraines any day.
ReplyDeleteBut my personal belief is that the crappy lighting we use impacts things like work productivity and educational outcomes for more then we realize. But there's a difference between educated rule making and knee-jerk congressional legislation, isn't there?
zic, that's interesting, I'll have to look into it - might help explain my chronic eye strain.
ReplyDeleteMy 8th grade English teacher never turned the lights on for fear that the fluorescent bulbs would give us all cancer... of course she was kinda wacky.
Playing off philosophical Ron from yesterday (I'm a Ron, too) and even before I saw anon's post above, I decided I'd give B. Hoover Obama a heart.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he's cool. Too damned cool. I'd like to see something engage his passion. Which would be easier if he actually had some.
And I'll add that Rethug's do in fact have brains, of a sort. It's why I call them lizard people.
Cheers!
JzB
Jazzbumpa -- Your instincts are correct. Rumsfeld has repeatedly refused to deny that he is, in fact, a shape-shifting lizard man from outer space who eats human flesh.
ReplyDeleteTrue fact: http://youtu.be/dK8Y2nO_8TM
Couves -
ReplyDeleteWow. Thanx.
JzB
JzB --
ReplyDeleteLove having you around here, but I'm still being the language cop: please save the partisan epithets for elsewhere.
I'd give Obama free sessions with a therapist so he can overcome his addiction to pre-compromising with radical, obstructionist Republicans who aren't going to vote for Obama's bills or nominees no matter what he gives them in advance.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Took the snark invitation a little too literally.
ReplyDeleteI'll behave.
Also, what Ron E. said
Cheers!
JzB
I'd wrap the GOP nomination in a box and give it to Newt Gingrich... Then add a years' supply of one-on-one debates with Barack Obama sans teleprompter. Then I'd sit back and watch Newt get smoked in the general election.
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