overheard in texas:

i don’t mind them [the chinese], i just don’t like it when they consume all our oil on the world market.

gone moving, be back next week…

if you don’t think cable companies are preying on the poor, go to their offices during your lunch hour and watch all the people count pennies at the customer service counter desperate to keep hbo coming for the next month.

hopefully they were southerners and had seen this before, otherwise the folks at the ymca who saw me drop the towel on the way to the shower would have mistaken the man-eating chigger bites for something sexually transmitted and highly contagious.

they recycle 100% of the water on the international space station – this means astronauts drink pee, and most importantly, not just their own pee.

i’m so glad i didn’t grow up to be an astronaut.

you would have expected the highlight of yesterday to have been the no hassle close on our new house, but honestly, how can that compete with the news of the atkins nutritionals company (you know, the fine folks that brought us the uber-fadish all protein no carb diet) filing for bankruptcy protection.

and before the smile could come off my face i find out herr bush made a recess appointment of john bolton – implying the republican party is completely void of any qualified candidates for government position requiring consensual approval.

from imaginary heroes:

is there such a thing as a human heart, that is the better question.
well if you listen closely, you can hear them breaking.