Comic for Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Posted: 6:30 am, Tuesday, September 2nd

Hot damn, off to try and teach and hopefully not fail spectacularly. And I know probably everyone's made the Palin-Roslyn joke already, but fuck it, McCain's pick is just that mind-boggling. It's the most transparent, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Well, not the most pathetic. The most pathetic thing was probably me in seventh grade. Politically pathetic, though.

We are totally on a three-strips-a-week schedule until further notice - the good news with that is that on a four-day week like this, I'll still give you three strips. Usually, it'll be Monday-Wednesday-Friday, but on weeks where Mondays are off, it'll be Tuesday-Wednesday-Friday. And some weeks, I'll have more time and can get another strip in. But for my sanity, yeah, we're scaling down output a li'l bit.

I saw very little of the collitch football this weekend, for various reasons, but I followed gleefully as Michigan went down to Utah, and Oregon had their way with the vicious animals. My favorite quote from that one was this,

First-year Huskies defensive coordinator Ed Donatell said, "We intended to tackle better."

Holy shit, the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis were the weirdest fucking thing I've ever heard of.

Also fascinating: Parachuters meaning to land at UNC for kickoff landed at Duke, instead. A wrap-up of most your collitch football action can be had here. In summation, long live Ty Willingham, and Michigan sucks.

My cousin was in town with his seventh-months aglow wife this past weekend, and, man, she was game. We did my standard walk-across-the-Brooklyn-Bridge tour of downtown, and she was down with all of it. And then they went at watched about nine hours of tennis at the Open. Ye gods!

What else, what else. 2.0 caught a few episodes of No Reservations yesterday as part of a marathon (it was also Labor Day of the Dead on the all-monsters-all-the-time channel we get), and Bourdain went to Laos in one episode. Man, did we fuck over Laos. Not cool, US of A, not cool at all.

Alright, so, I start teaching, the fuckers go to the Twin Cities, and For Better or For Worse does some weird reboot thing. I think that's the week in a nutshell.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Tuesday, September 2 2008, 08:22 am

You know, McCain Veep pick is really growing on me...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881

Good luck teaching! Educate them right in the head!

Zero

The thing that really worries me about the Palin pick (for Barack's chances, I mean) is not that she's a woman, but that she's exactly the person Hillary Clinton was trying to be during the Pennsylvania primary: a good ol' girl, with the common-woman touch, someone who can drink and shoot with the boys on Saturday and then go to church on Sunday. She's the female George W. Bush, both politically and personality-wise, and even more authentic than he is when it comes to small-town values and background. And if working-class whites break off and vote for her solely on that basis, then -- youch.

I read a lot about Palin Sunday morning (I was surrounded by people with different views of my own and they were VERY excited about her as a pick). DailyKos has some great links to her views on different issues - including not originally supporting McCain in the primaries! There was one article that basically said, liberals - don't be stupid, she isn't going to get the Hillary vote, she is there to reassure the fundies. McCain broke from the right wing nut jobs and this is their play to get them back in line and motivated. Sounds like it is working - McCain raised $7M the day he announced. Suburban soccer moms are going to identify with her, too.

That was me above

I think Diesel Sweeties has it right: It's Alaska vs. Hawaii for the Presidency. (Obama is apparently originally born in Hawaii.)

Some College Football thoughts:

1. Way to go, Texas A&M. You schedule the cupcake, and the cupcake ends up biting you in the ass.

2. So apparently the UCLA beating Tennessee proves that Neuheisel is a better coach than they thought and the turnaround for soul selling is quicker than it used to be.

3. San Diego State is bad. How bad? They lost 29-27 to Cal Poly, a Division I-AA school. I know, losing to a FCS school doesn't have the same ring ever since Michigan lost to Appalachian State. Anyway they are your first opponent, Damers.

4. Not one, but two Oklahoma athletes were stabbed at a nightclub after their 50-2 win against Chattanooga. You don't suppose they were stabbed because they were the ones who let their opponents to score a safety?

5. Score of the Weekend: Arizona 70 - Northern Arizona 0. That ain't right.

it's dOmers, not dAmers.

Considering the way Notre Dame played last year they played more like Damers than Domers. Either way, ND shouldn't screw this one up.

God, thank you for posting a link to Medium Large. I thought Marciuliano stopped doing the strip after he stopped contributing to Drink at Work's Web site. Now I can stop reading Sally Forth for my fix.

Palin had my town's delegate to the RNC saying "it was the talk in the bathroom stalls. It was, 'Woohoo, a woman, sounds wonderful,'"

Good luck and God bless--now go teach some kids something.

P.S. It would be nice if your bride would call me once in a while.

I think our game of the day should be pick your favorite Palin kid name: A) Willow B) Bristol C) Piper D) Track E) Trig

count me in for one vote for Trig. it's a math class, for goodness sakes. Even I'm not that much of a math geek.

You'll all be happy to know that after Jeremiah's first class I received a text that read "So far so good."

Pfew!

MNP - tomorrow's game should be to name her future grandkid. I recently tried a girl named Precious, so that one has been used....

I vote for Piper - Piper Palin has quite a ring.

UM, the Chicago newspapers have pictures of Palin's daughters, with her, at a campaign stop. Not only is one of them a pregnant teen, but they both look like the limelight already very much sucks.

You wil be a great teacher. I miss you and 2.0

Michael is really the only choice for a name if your last name is Palin. I mean, honestly, people. He lead the Knights who said Ni.

One day down, no visible scars. I wish my wife would get home so I could have a gin and tonic, though.