An Accident Waiting to Happen

I don't believe it. I don't want to believe it. Milka Duno will be driving an Indy car again this year. She is the slowest and sloppiest driver I've ever seen. Every race she starts is a potential obstacle course for the other drivers. Shouldn't the ability to drive an Indy car safely be a prerequisite for driving an Indy car?

Shenanigans

A woman, who apparently weighed the same as a duck, and her husband were hanged from a tree because they were accused of being witches. She then proceeded to prove that the mob was right by giving birth and then getting down from the tree. The sorcerous family is reported to be doing well.

It's in a newspaper, so it must be true, right?

I Really Ought to Have a Better Title For This

The nominees for the Oddest Book Title of the Year have been announced and they are all, well, pretty odd. They missed a good one though by not including Toilet Bowl Christianity: Purge Your Past For a Redemptive Future. Spiritual bulimia?

About Frigging Time!

Unification. After all the rumors and all the nonsense, it finally happened. The IRL will absorb what's left of Champ Car and there will be one open-wheel racing league in the US.

What does it mean for us? The quality of racing can only get better. No matter how you slice it, this is good news.

It's a good day to be a race fan.

Lookin' Good For Christ

Guess who has His own line of personal care products?

Sizzle, Not Steak?

My nutritionist told me that I should eat less meat and more veggies, so I suppose I could tell folks that I was visiting Casa Diablo for health reasons. It's the world's first vegan strip club, and if you see me there I want to assure you that it is purely for medicinal reasons.

Meow Sounds

A day late for Caturday, but I love a nice kitty story.

When Martin Luther Said That the Gospel Was Clear . . .

I don't think that this is what he meant. Nice rant about Bible paper at Classical Bookworm.

Life. Don't Talk to me About Life.

Hey, where have I been lately? You probably figure I'm still in mourning for my beloved Patriots. Nah. It would have been nice to see them run the table, but you can't always get what you want. Besides, it's only a game. My problem is time. Right now my candle is being burned on both ends. Way too much work on one end and a family crisis on the other. I've had neither the time nor the desire to write much lately. I'd like to say that things will be getting better soon, but that's not very likely. The best I can hope for is that things will just slow down a little.

Follow the Money

I was listening to a conversation about Arlen Specter's grandstanding the other day. One of the guys said that Specter has been in Comcast's pocket for years. Huh? I didn't know what the guy was talking about, so I did a little digging. It seems that Comcast is Specter's second largest contributor. It also seems that Comcast and the NFL have been fighting for a while now. A lot of money is involved, so Comcast sent their pet Senator out to piddle on Roger Goodell's parade.

Sadly, this is not shocking. It is not even unusual. This is American democracy in the 21st century -- the best government that money can buy.

Let’s Go Bowling

I finally saw The Big Lebowski. Now I can get all the jokes about the Dude.

It’s one of those movies that I’ve been meaning to see for a long time, then I see it and kick myself for waiting so long. The plot is really complicated. There’s this guy named Lebowski, but he doesn’t go by that name. He calls himself “The Dude.” Then these enforcers for a porno producer mistake him for the eponymous Lebowski, after which he goes bowling and . . . wait a minute. I lost my train of thought.

Look, who cares about the plot? It doesn’t matter. What’s important is that a whole bunch of weird stuff happens to the Dude, who is the laziest, most laid-back stoner and league bowler in the world. The characters are interesting, or at least funny, the dialogue is sharp, and the visuals are great, especially the Dude’s occasional dream sequences. The Busby Berkeley inspired vision of bowling is an instant classic of cinema weirdness.

This thing is seriously funny and occasionally mind-boggling. Your mileage may vary. Not everyone digs the Coen brother’s style of humor. That’s okay. The Dude . . . well, you know.

Top 5 reasons to watch The Big Lebowski

The nihilists

The Dude dreams

Maude’s vaginal art

Tumbling tumbleweeds and the Stranger

The coffee can

Fool on the Hill

We are at war in two countries and under threat at home. Our economy is teetering on the brink of recession. Climate change is a reality. The issues are serious and we elect people who we think will deal with them on our behalf. So what does Senator Arlan Specter want to do? He wants to hold hearings about spygate. That'll help. Your tax dollars at work.