It is amazing how much trust you give anyone who tells you what you want to hear. That is the classic definition of someone who just can't wait to be fooled.

This being an apolitical holiday

For were the impulses of conscience clear..and irrisistably obeyed, Man would need no other law-giver.

A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feeling as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

How'd you do that Tex?

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the death sentence would be commuted to life in prison for everyone on death row

Suggested to my sister that she buy her little boy a pink dress to match the dress she was wearing if she is going to continue to enter him into beauty pagents.

her husband agreed with the larger point of he doesn't need to be entered into the pagents.

... the question is, are you paranoid enough? Voters in Italy are using electronic electronic voting machines for the first time in a national election. The polls and the exit polling all have the incumbent, Bush's good friend Silvio Berlusconi, who literally owns the Italian media, losing. And for the first time in Italian democratic history, suddenly the election is too close to call. I hope I'm wrong, but I think I've seen this movie before ... in Florida and Ohio. I predict that Berlusconi will win. But only by the grace of machines that have no paper trail.

They have beauty pageants for little boys?

I have a new dog who likes to wipe his ass on the family room rug,

but there are at least two divisions where little boys and girls compete against each other.

Why not? Isn't the kid pretty enough?

race does not play a part in the equation.

The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands--as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands. Really. Thursday (March 30), Interior Secretary Gale Norton called a press conference to claim our long nightmare of wetlands loss had finally come to an end due to unprecedented gains since 1997 (click hear to read the report she cites). However, she then admitted much of that gain has been in artificially created ponds, such as golf course water hazards and farm impoundments...

Not every pitcher is an easy out Charlie...in fact the Mets staff has been getting good wood on the ball at the plate. Besides, if pitchers had to hit in both leagues (as the good lord intended) they would hit better. And it's real easy for an AL pitcher to throw at guys knowing they themselves never have to get in the box. The DH has removed so much strategy from the game, when to pull pitchers, double switches, sacrifices, etc...a robot could manage an AL team. It's blasphemy! The AL is pretty stacked this year though. Posted by Johnny April 17, 2006 06:44 PM Jason Marquis of the Cards is a better hitter than many teams can claim to have in their leadoff spot.