Comic for Friday, January 22, 2010

Posted: 6:30 am, Friday, January 22

Can I just have a nice peaceful blog entry? Let's see!

I've been kind of just free-associating in my "plotting" of the strip lately, and I can't tell if it's to any decent end or not. I kind of think it's not. I'll have to buckle down.

ad mentioned the hidden stats in the lowest-murder rate ever in NYC a week or two ago, and, sure enough, we have a rising gang problem. I can't lie, I'm acutely aware of this, although not too many of the kids in my actual classes are all that tough. I do get to see their asinine handshakes a lot, though.

Forced perspective is fun.

I had no idea Ebert couldn't speak at all any more. That totally explains the excessive (and brilliant) tweeting. (Awesomest thing about Ebert's Twitter page is his following list. He's following 34 people and is followed by nearly 45,000. Three of the people he's following? Shitmydadsays, Sarah Palin, and Hugh Hefner. Roger Ebert, where have you been all my life?)

Walking Dead!

Oh, man, Franz Nicolay is leaving the Hold Steady. Bummer. Probably means no more harpsichord-laden tracks like One for the Cutters, which is fine with me, but 2.0 really liked that track, so it's mixed over all.

2.0 and I watched most of Star Trek: First Contact last night, the Next Generation movie that had the Borg in it. Whoa, does that not hold up well. Almost makes me worried to ever watch Undiscovered Country again.

Tomorrow is the last day of me having to teach Saturday academy. Ugh, I can't wait. Not much sucks more than teaching all week, getting to Saturday morning, and having to get up to teach some more. Noon oh one tomorrow, I am out on the town.

bullfrog

Miyaa -- Friday, January 22 2010, 10:21 am

It must suck that Ebert can't verbally yell back had a particularly horrible movie. Thank goodness he probably has his iPhone or Blackberry.

Just curious, what is the plural for having more than one Bloody Mary?

Isn't it great that corporations can now pump as much money into politics as their little hearts desire???? Yay democracy!!!

Seriously. At what point do we admit that we are a failed Republic and just have a CEO and a Board of Trustees instead of a legislative branch?

Not that I agree with the supreme court, but doesn't it just make what was once covert through lobbying and the PAC's overt now?

I guess, but now instead of there being only 2,000 PACs (I think that's all there were previously), there will be unlimited numbers of corporations spending unlimited amounts of money.

I really don't like the idea that they've given corporations the freedom of speech. Now I know the amendment is written so that the freedom of speech is protected--not the person/entity who does the speaking--but did they really have to go there? I'm envisioning corporations now claiming free speech when someone suggests limiting advertisements of, say, prescription drugs. And since corporations are way more creative than I am when it comes to stretching the law, I shudder to think what they'll figure out to do.

We need an amendment to change any of this, because I think the Court also found that corporations have the rights of individual people back in, like, the 70s. So, I guess we m'ise well welcome our new corporate overlords, because if corporations can basically tank any candidate they want, and if we need a vast majority of office-holders to change that status quo, then...

Holy shit, Sarah Palin's writing (speaking? I'm not sure the source of this, I got it from Doonesbury) is on level with my low-performing students:

"I'd like to see the Obama administration willing to do anything to be done to protect the American people, and we want to know that."

The fuck?

totally not on thread with every other comment, but that video was really cool! the guy had some neat other videos. i threw a link at my friend who helps run the little shop of physics at colorado state university. it's a children's science touring show that i used to work for, and some of the guy's videos might be applicable as experiments. thank you for putting this up!

(i am throwing in a link to the little shop cause despite your non-science educating ways, i thought you might like to see what they do. i don't know. here you go!

http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/

I am waiting for Siskel's tweets. What?! Too soon?

Every once in a while, you should pretend to not be irredeemably awful.

Because I'm a raging narcissist, I was just flipping through some of the archives, and I found almost the exact-same punchline almost exactly three years ago today.

http://www.fivebuckstofriday.com/2007/archive070118.html

I am a dynamo of creativity. Something needs to change.