Hither and thither 10/22/10

Well ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages: I've got a full plate for you. As usual, click on images to enlarge (usually), and check back for updates until noon PT.

• Did you know that tomorrow is Christian Store Day? Well, it is.
• I've found a graphic way of expressing how I, and many voters, feel about the Obama/Reid/Pelosi agenda:

• If I give you the headline Former U. S. Surgeon General calls for marijuana legalization, whose name comes to mind? If I add "the most ludicrously incompetent in memory," does that help? How about if I add the memorable lines, "I love Eric Clappner [for Clapton]," and, best of all, "All of us are goin' to die of somethin', eventually"? Of course. It could only be Jocelyn Elders. Which just goes to re-prove...
• Democratic presidents leave a stink for years and years and years to come.
• DAOD notes that, in addition to being delicious, artichokes are nutritious, and have more antioxidants than red wine or chocolate. (She's not saying anyone should give up either, though.)
• BTW, however wonderful he may be in other ways, don't go to Alton Brown to learn how to prepare and eat artichokes. On that subject, he's off.
• I just never, never, never get this sort of thing. Why would an institution want to call itself Evangelical or Lutheran, let alone Evangelical Lutheran, while featuring this sort of thing? (Thanks to reader Robert Sakovich for the tip.)
• To turn the phrase: if you build it... Obama will probably take credit for it.
• Meanwhile, the President continues to blame Bush and Boehner, when he's not blaming stupid, scared voters.. goodness, what a spoiled child. How long has his party held Congress? Do you remember him saying any of this during the campaign? "Though my party has controlled the budget for years, I won't be able to do much unless everybody does everything exactly my way — and even then, no promises"?
• And before we move on: are you a woman? Then Obama thinks you should say, "Thank you, Mr. President, for helping me," and go vote Democrat.

• And again I say: some pictures, you don't want explained.

• Playing games with the military — it's The Obama Way™.
• Yeah, this is pretty much the move I'd have made too. If, you know, I had a different body and everything.

• Where are you? You're in a place where it's not okay to say offensive things about some kinds of sexual perverts, but it is okay to wish a slow, painful death to Rush Limbaugh. Where? Facebook.
• Reader Aaron found indisputable evidence that they have 'wayyy too much time on their hands in Colorado.
• I don't think he's surprised, but Aaron also notes that when director James Cameron says "We're going to have to live with less," he actually pretty much means just you. Not him.
• Dear wife will love this (click to enlarge):

• Or, more often:

• Berry Davis found a site that will calculate your odds of winning various prizes in McDonald's Monopoly game — and what it would cost you (financially and dietarily) to do it.
• Now, this is a burger!

• Occasional reader and FRiend Elliot, who is a lawyer (but I like him anyway), found an interesting article approaching The Lord of the Rings as a study in property law.
• Reader Dave Sloan noticed the headline End of the Earth Postponed, but observed, "Nope, still right on schedule...Matthew 24:36." Correct.
• How R2-D2 should have looked in the prequels:

• Reader Matt Gumm notes that Google maps found Batman's house.
• I have come to love cats, but I must freely admit: no cat can do all of this. (Tweeted by Phil.)
• How many blogs today link you to an article speculating as to what a Tyrannosaurus Rex would taste like? Thanks to Berry Davis, at least one.
• Hawk, by the way.
• Reader Al Sends found a machine made of Legos that makes things... out of Legos.
• Hey! Wait up!

• Just interesting: Virginia Thomas, wive of Justice Clarence Thomas, made a little phone call to Anita Hill. Why? To suggest that Hill pray, think, and offer an apology to her husband. Props to Mrs. Thomas for seeking to clear her husband's name. Unsurprisingly (if disappointingly), Ms. Hill declined to retract the one and only reason for which her name is known beyond a very small circle. (Tim Bayly offers a few more thoughts.)
• I followed those hearings, and remember them well. I remember that the only people testifying in Hill's defense knew only her, while those who knew both Hill and Thomas testified in Justice Thomas' behalf.
• This also gives me an opportunity to do two things:
• First, to quote Justice Thomas' dead-on words, spoken during the hearings, from that article: "From my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you." Things haven't changed much since then (read: at all).
• Second: to remind you that I wrote Justice Thomas, and he wrote me back. So, nee-nee-nee.
• And now, relatedly....
• Surprise! Turns out Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayor was a really bad pick! Yessir, this last election's bills will be coming due for years and years and years.
• Proverbs 22:29 picture of the day:

• Unions want women in Nevada to know that Sharron Angle would be bad for women. Because, you know, women's most-cherished value in life is the right to kill inconvenient, imperfect, or ill-fathered children. (Thanks to reader Robert Sakovich for the tip.)
• I definitely know at least a couple out there who will thank Matt Gumm for pointing out The Death of Jar-Jar Binks — in glorious ASCIImation.
• Some of my Pyro readers may want to get me this for Christmas:

• One of the most incompetent, embarrasing senatrixes ever to serve — I speak, of course, of Barbara "What-there-are-other-issues-besides-the-sacred-act-of-abortion?" Boxer — touted her endorsement by the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars). What? Was that an oversight? Nope; the PAC for the VFW endorsed her, along with some of the worst, most rancid liberal extremists in both houses. When word got out, and it caught the attention of VFW national Commander Richard L. Eubank, he acted quickly and sacked the entire PAC board. Go, Cmdr. Eubank!
• Not a happy story, but it is nice to know that there is at least one parent in the world who doesn't enable his child's violent lawbreaking, and try to turn the blame on victims, police and society.
• Just a healthy reminder that doctors are neither God nor infallible.
• Old white politician reportedly hits young black candidate. Quick! Name the policital parties!
• Wrong. 
• Hunh. Who knew? Turns out you can't work for NPR if Muslims on an airplane make you nervous — or, at any rate, if you admit it in public. (You can read their explanation, and see if it passes the giggle-test.) In that case, the NPR CEO might fire you and hint that you're crazy. Of course, more often than not, Juan Williams is crazy; but not this time. Just candid... and non-pc.
• ...and (surprise!) turns out NPR's claim of opposition to its analysts expressing opinions is, at best, selectively enforced.
• And now, a clip from my week in the Sierra with my younger sons. Good times.

• OK, not exactly.
• Hobbit news: the project has finally been "green-lit." And now we even have casting news. (More, with more pix.)
• Paula found a better-than-average Page Not Found page.
• Good news. Paula also found a "healthy" donut sandwich.

• Yet another... well, what shall we call it? A Wahh! Alert, or a Gosh, I Had No Idea What the Boy Scouts' Policy About Homosexuals Was! Alert? Regardless, this poor lost soul demands truckloads of sympathy, deserves none — not for this. His poor kid, though.
• Sigh. In related news, reader Robert Sakovich points us to another Proverbs 29:18 moment, thanks to a man who thinks certain men should be able to compete athletically as women. But presumably only sexually perverted men. 
• Leading, in no logical way, to these: