Old FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

Apparently, a “conservative theologian” with a book to peddle appeared on FOX News to explain that men should be men and we should stop raising “nice” boys. “You look at the culture, the movies, the television,” he reportedly said, “and it always shows boys and men being these morons that a woman or a gay man has to take by the hand and lead us through the fog or we’re not going to make it.” I mention this only because this conservative theologian seems to have a pretty gay shirt on, and makes sure to use the word “ramrod”, so maybe he’s projecting.

So now comes word that the president of the eponymous Robert King’s House of Wingnuttery has sent a letter (pdf) to Mayor Potter, in which King states that he will be coming to the table not to “evaluate racial profiling issues in this community and help to identify ways to eliminate it as soon as possible” (in Potter’s words), but instead simply “to explain that we do not engage in racial profiling”.

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This week I am suffering from an acute case of Bed Head, wherein you really would rather just spend the entire week in bed. Nonetheless, here I am, at work, although likely operating at something less than peak efficiency for the second day in a row. Cyclical, although completely irregular in period, Bed Head eventually dissipates. Just not, you know, yet.

You must be out there, somewhere. Assuming that’s the case, I really do need you over here as a contributor. Or do all the backers of enacting Charter reform this May prefer to skulk about in the background, rather than make their arguments in public?

On the flyer posted outside the house for sale across from work, nestled in amongst the usual sorts of things you’d expect (3 bedrooms, “lots of hardwood floors”, on block to bus line) is a list of places to which you can walk from this house. That list begins with these words: “Walk to the Tram”.

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They are removing and recycling the old shelters on the transit mall. I still think they should reuse them, not recycle them — repurpose them into newsstands on one end and public restrooms on the other, and scatter them around downtown. The premise of that combination being that the newsstand would mean there were eyes on the restrooms at all times. Oh, and add a hot pretzel operation to the newsstand, because we need hot pretzel vendors everywhere.

Apparently, according to Newsweek, the new Dinesh D’Souza book blames liberals for being a “domestic insurgency” aiding and abetting terrorists and are “at least as dangerous as any of bin Laden’s American sleeper cells.” It’s too bad it’s his own positions which most closely relate to those of the terrorists.

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