She’s nothing! She’s like the Pastors wife who gets cheated on, but stays with him. A librarian with a big stack of “HUSH!”. She fills up every lil’ box on the Starbucks cups when she orders. And I’m seriously beginning to doubt her commitment to Sparkle Motion.
No thanks lady… I’ve already got a mom… in fact, I’ve got 2.
Oh, and John McCain looks like death.
Yeah… I said it!
This shit is something else!
I don’t know how or why, but I ended up watching America’s Got Talent last night… Holy Crap! Was I ever pleased to find JONATHAN BURKIN the BATON TWIRLER!
Cliches Galore. A Subtext Smorgasbord. I kept rubbing my eyes waiting for a cameo from Andy Samberg, but this shit is fer real!
I don’t know what’s better, the emotionally riveting pre-performance bio, the soundtrack, the flames, or the Hoff. I love it all!
P.S. MadEx I wish you got promoted to work on this show. This is your caliber of awesomeness.
hahahahha! I’ve never laughed so hard as when I ventured into Melanie Griffiths magical world of suck. I mean this chick is sooooo diluted. Seriously… Just click on a door to be mystically whisked into a different realm of crap. You will be guided by none other than the voice of the Goddess Working Girl herself.
I imagine this is the online version of Dollywood minus the great camp and fun. This is just sad, in a funny way.
Oooh, I wonder if Antonio Bandares has a swarthy swashbuckling bandero website?
So yeah… Gas prices suck… It’s nuts! But there’s a silver lining depending on how you look at it.
Just read this… Consider:
Consider the world of good that would come of pricing crude oil and gasoline at levels that would strain our finances as much as they’re straining international relations and the planet’s long-term health:
1. RIP for the internal-combustion engine
They may contain computer chips, but the power source for today’s cars is little different than that which drove the first Model T 100 years ago. That we’re still harnessed to this antiquated technology is testament to Big Oil’s influence in Washington and success in squelching advances in fuel efficiency and alternative energy.
Given our achievement in getting a giant mainframe’s computing power into a handheld device in just a few decades, we should be able to do likewise with these dirty, little rolling power plants that served us well but are overdue for the scrap heap of history.
2. Economic stimulus
Necessity being the mother of invention, $8 gas would trigger all manner of investment sure to lead to groundbreaking advances. Job creation wouldn’t be limited to research labs; it would rapidly spill over into lucrative manufacturing jobs that could help restore America’s industrial base and make us a world leader in a critical realm.
The most groundbreaking discoveries might still be 25 or more years off, but we won’t see massive public and corporate funding of research initiatives until escalating oil costs threaten our national security and global stability — a time that’s fast approaching.
3. Wither the Middle East’s clout
This region that’s contributed little to modern civilization exercises inordinate sway over the world because of its one significant contribution — crude extraction. Aside from ensuring Israel’s security, the U.S. would have virtually no strategic or business interest in this volatile, desolate region were it not for oil — and its radical element wouldn’t be able to demonize us as the exploiters of its people.
In the near term, breaking our dependence on Middle Eastern oil may well require the acceptance of drilling in the Alaskan wilderness — with the understanding that costly environmental protections could easily be built into the price of $8 gas.
4. Deflating oil potentates
On a similar note, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently gained a platform on the world stage because of their nations’ sudden oil wealth. Without it, they would face the difficult task of building fair and just economies and societies on some other basis.
How far would their message resonate — and how long would they even stay in power — if they were unable to buy off the temporary allegiance of their people with vast oil revenues?
5. Mass-transit development
Anyone accustomed to taking mass transit to work knows the joy of a car-free commute. Yet there have been few major additions or improvements to our mass-transit systems in the last 30 years because cheap gas kept us in our cars.
Confronted with $8 gas, millions of Americans would board buses, trains, ferries and bicycles and minimize the pollution, congestion and anxiety spawned by rush-hour traffic jams. More convenient routes and scheduling would accomplish that
6. An antidote to sprawl
The recent housing boom sparked further development of antiseptic, strip-mall communities in distant outlying areas. Making 100-mile-plus roundtrip commutes costlier will spur construction of more space-efficient housing closer to city centers, including cluster developments to accommodate the millions of baby boomers who will no longer need their big empty-nest suburban homes.
Sure, there’s plenty of land left to develop across our fruited plains, but building more housing around city and town centers will enhance the sense of community lacking in cookie-cutter developments slapped up in the hinterlands.
7. Restoration of financial discipline
Far too many Americans live beyond their means and nowhere is that more apparent than with our car payments. Enabled by eager lenders, many middle-income families carry two monthly payments of $400 or more on $20,000-plus vehicles that consume upwards of $15,000 of their annual take-home pay factoring in insurance, maintenance and gas.
The sting of forking over $100 per fill-up would force all of us to look hard at how much of our precious income we blow on a transport vehicle that sits idle most of the time, and spur demand for the less-costly and more fuel-efficient small sedans and hatchbacks that Europeans have been driving for decades.
8. Easing global tensions
Unfortunately, we human beings aren’t so far evolved that we won’t resort to annihilating each other over energy resources. The existence of weapons of mass destruction aside, the present Iraq War could be the first of many sparked by competition for oil supplies.
Steep prices will not only chill demand in the U.S., they will more importantly slow China and India’s headlong rush to make the same mistakes we did in rapidly industrializing — like selling $2,500 Tata cars to countless millions of Indians with little concern for the environmental consequences. If we succeed in developing viable energy alternatives, they could be a key export in helping us improve our balance of trade with consumer-goods producers.
Additional considerations
Weaning ourselves off crude will hopefully be the crowning achievement that marks the progress of humankind in the 21st Century. With it may come development of oil-free products to replace the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, fertilizers and pesticides that now consume 16% of the world’s crude-oil output and are likely culprits in fast-rising cancer rates.
By its very definition, oil is crude. It’s time we develop more refined energy sources and that will not happen without a cost-driven shift in demand.
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Nonsensical Italian 70’s disco-rap…
I always say I was born in the wrong era.
this made my day…
Attention Cruisers: in lieu of the 12:45 manscaping class, we will be moving up the afternoon bar-soap shuffleboard finals. Please join us on the lido deck, for all the excitement…and don’t forget your towels!
This video makes me want to put on spandex, do cartwheels, and get pelted by 10,000 nerf balls.
Why are the nordic peoples so much cooler than any of us will ever be?
p.s. it won the Swedish grammy for best video.
This site made all my co-workers wonder why I was crying-laughing and running to the bathroom.
Try not to laugh… you will… well, yeah.
Dude! I LOVE this movie. I love it as much as going to the dog park and watching all the crazy people who look like their dogs and talk about them in the third person.
If you are like me, and get embarrassed when your dog acts the fool when you have company over, then you will love this movie.
Molly Shannon is so great. She nails it. And so does everyone else in this movie. Every moment is crisp with the awkwardness and brilliance that makes working, paying bills, counting calories, plucking your unibrow, and cleaning up warm dog shit with a thin plastic bag all worth it.
I say Y-E-S.
There’s this bundle of really cool Mac applications from macheist.com for cheap. Some of the apps are kinda useless, but there are some others that are freakin RAD.
I like ‘Cha-Ching’ cuz I wanna get my finances in order, and ‘Awaken’ cuz it turns my iTunes into my alarm clock.
And… a good percentage from the purchases goes to select charities.
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