{"id":3564,"date":"2008-02-05T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2008-02-05T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:24:58","slug":"tuesday-afternoon-scratchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/tuesday-afternoon-scratchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Afternoon Scratchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Building A Bridge to the Late 20th Century<\/u><\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from <a href='http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/news\/speech\/view\/?id=5761'>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Super Tuesday speech<\/a>, delivered a moment ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt>I hope all of you will join our campaign at double-you double-you double-you dot hillaryclinton dot com.  Because you know that politics isn't a game. It's not about who's up or who's down. It's about your lives, your families, your futures.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, though: anyone who still includes the www when mentioning a URL is unfit for office.<\/p>\n<p><u>Mitt-Flops<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Romney, meanwhile, did best among &#8220;self-described conservatives.&#8221;  This despite the fact that, until recently, Romney was pro-choice, in favor of stem cell research, a proponent of gay rights (&#8220;<a href='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/Politics\/Romney_Flier_Pride_Weekend.JPG'>All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preferences.<\/a>&#8220;), and busy instituting Universal (or, at least, Massachusettsal) Healthcare.  This guy is so phony it&#8217;s as if someone Photoshopped him into reality.  Apparently &#8220;self-described conservative&#8221; is pretty much synonymous with &#8220;least likely to do the research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><u>Grimace<\/u><\/p>\n<p>If McDonald&#8217;s &#8220;Happy Meals&#8221; are named after the emotional state children are in while consuming them, shouldn&#8217;t the adult versions be called &#8220;Self-Loathing Meals&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><u>Private to the Guy I Just Finished Playing Racquetball With<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I may have lost to you 2-15, but at least I didn&#8217;t bellyache like an affluent toddler every time I missed a shot.  So, between your admittedly superior athletic prowess, and my ability to stoically endure misfortune, I think we both proved our masculinity today.  Except for you, ya fucking craybaby.<\/p>\n<p><u>Waxy&#8217;s Links<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I started my linkblog (did you know I had one?  It&#8217;s over there &#8212;&#8212;>) about a year ago because, at the time, <em>my<\/em> favorite linkblog&#8211;that run by Andy Baio of <a href='http:\/\/www.waxy.org'>Waxy.org<\/a>&#8211;was only updated sporadically, leaving me to search out more time-killers on my own.  Well, now Mr. Baio is blogging full time, and his linkblog typically features so many great links a day that I am spending less and less time on my own (not that I ever devoted more than 40 seconds a week on it &#8230;).  So if you like the stuff that I post, you owe it to yourself to check out <a href='http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/'>Waxy&#8217;s Links<\/a> or subscribe to Andy&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/index.xml'>XML feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>EPIC<\/u><\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/matthewbaldwin\/2236668685\/\" title=\"EPIC by Matthew Baldwin, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2133\/2236668685_88472115f7_o.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"533\" border=0 alt=\"EPIC\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building A Bridge to the Late 20th Century An excerpt from Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Super Tuesday speech, delivered a moment ago: I hope all of you will join our campaign at double-you double-you double-you dot hillaryclinton dot com. Because you know that politics isn&#8217;t a game. It&#8217;s not about who&#8217;s up or who&#8217;s down. 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