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200 WORDS OR LESS:

A NEW FAD

I tried starting a fad a while back, but during the preliminary focus group meeting…

Harv: Thanks for coming, kids. Now, you remember how much fun pet rocks were, right?

MacKenzie: What's a pet rock?

Harv: Never mind. Anyway, here’s my new creation: Shooty, the Pet Glock.

Maekenzee: My mommy says guns are evil.

Harv: Your mommy is a lying hag of a hippy. Now, this...

Makenzie: Is that the kill'n end?

Harv: No, you little hydrocephaloid, that's the beat'n end. Read the freakin' manual. Anyway, it's like a Tamagotchi. You just keep it fed with happy yum-yum bullets and...

Makynzi: But what does it do?

Harv: Most of the time it just sits & looks pretty, but it comes in handy for pest control. See that cockroach over there?

Shooty: Blam!

Cockroach: Splatter!

Harv: Works great on hippies, too.

Chorus: Waaaaahh! All our mommies are hippies!

Harv: Then die, you evil hellspawn! Here's a little chlorine for the gene pool!

Shooty: Blam! Blam! Blam!

Harv: Damn, they all got away. Well, Mrs. Brady, that's why you need more than 10 rounds in your magazine. Stress can really frink up your aim. *SIGH*...  Back to the drawing board.

MMM... LEMONS

I keep forgetting to add this to my blogroll, and I keep being reminded at other sites that I need to get it done. So I FINALLY have a permalink to The Lemon on my blogroll now, and I feel better.

The latest issue has an explanation of the California recall election situation. Drink Alert in effect.

POP QUIZ

I've read the Constitution. I also studied it during my brief, painful tour in law school. But I was still surprised by the answers on this short quiz regarding what the Constitution does and doesn't guarantee. Sharp Knife really puts the Patriot Act into perspective.

Quit laughing. Let's see how you do.

[hat tip to the Emperor for pointing this one out]

GOOD DESIGN

I really look forward to my trips to Reflections in d minor. Lynn is to aesthetics as Stephen Den Beste is to engineering: rational, intelligent, and informative. You come away smarter for having visited.

Fortunately, she's also stronger in the brevity department ;-)

Today, thanks to her post describing Mandarin Design's delightful web site, which is chock full of hints & tips on web design, I've seen something I NEVER would have believed actually existed: a non-annoying use of the color yellow on a web page

Incredible.

SWEET NOTHINGS

Boots and Sabers whispers those 3 little words that every man longs to hear:

Full Auto Glock.

Go and catch the link to the 1.1 meg avi file.

Suh-wheet.

WELL, AT LEAST THEY'RE FAIR AND BALANCED

The only difference between UC Berkeley and UW Madison is a few degrees of lattitude & longitude. On any given day, it's a toss up as to which one is leaning farther left. Sure, Berkeley has the Bay Area screwball esthetic, but Madison has a state capital building 6 blocks away, which makes it a political freak-magnet.

Following the lead of the despicable Governor Doyle, whose "not taking sides" in the Tyson Foods strike I mentioned earlier, it seems that the UW has now gotten into the act. Boots & Sabers has the whole story, but here's the point:

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Responding to student requests, University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators announced Friday that Tyson Foods products will not be served on campus until the six-month-long strike at the company's Jefferson plant is resolved.

Casey Nagy, executive assistant to the UW-Madison chancellor, said the ban will include food served at the campus unions, residence halls and UW-Extension facilities.

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Fine. UW is a bunch of nattering, pro-union, commie freaks. Whatever. I don't care. THIS is what pisses me off:

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Nagy added that the ban does not mean the university is taking a position on the strike, but is instead a nod toward meeting consumer preferences.

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I can't properly convey my reaction without resorting to the polite and courteous use of the English language, so just head on over to Boots & Sabers, 'cuz Owen restricts himself to a mere 4 excremental euphemisms.

How? I have no idea.