The Amazing Race 6--"You Deal With This Before I Hyperventilate"

Down the stretch they come--and they have to stop at the final turn to be bunched.

"This does rule out the terrifying possibility of an unkillable zombie Bin Laden though."

Courtesy BigBrainBoy via Fark, the latest CNN high point.

Map your typewriter to USB

This is the coolest hack I've ever seen.

The Amazing Race 6--"It Always Comes Down to the Details"

I've got no interesting text for this space. Other than that I'll take the Patriots and lay the points in two weeks.

Battle Stations!

WHDH-TV - Boston - The News Station had a great weather update.

Courtesy Fark, where a copy of it was helpfully copied for when it gets pushed off of the Boston page.

Middle America, Meet the Law of Unintended Consequences

Defense attorneys in Ohio are using the new anti-gay marriage amendment to challenge domestic violence charges where the perpetrator was not married to his victim. The reasoning? The law affords marriage-like legal status to the unmarried victims, which is now an unconstitutional behavior.

Nice, real nice.

The Amazing Race 6--"Are There Instructions on Donkey Handling?"

Oh, this one's just too easy:

--You mean someone on the Race doesn't know how to find their ass with both hands?
--If there are, Victoria could use some...

You try! It's fun!

Lockdown

They're pretty much shutting down DC (WaPost, login req.) for the inagural a week from tommorrow. I found this quote from Ridge telling:

"Our goal is that any attempt on the part of anyone or any group to disrupt the inaugural will be repelled by multiple layers of security."

Note: not "kill Americans" or "committ a terrorist act" but "disrupt the inagural." You can't help but feeling this is as much about protestors as it is al-Qaeda.

They have a map up here. There aren't too many actual residences effected; just some over by State in the "partially" closed to traffic zone. Government offices are closing for the most part--even I have the day off. And, of course, the cost is being passed on to the Distrcit itself. But spare no expense for the fortunate son.

The Amazing Race 6--"Tell My Mom I Love Her!"

"And that I'm a giant pansy!"

New term coinage

Most of you know my fledging few-date adventure has ended, and not of my initiative. I didn't really consider this serious enough to use the term "dumped", but didn't have another term, either.

After some kicking around with Mike of goatdogblog, he proposed the term "released." I like it and propose its immediate adoption for the ending of relationships greater than one or two dates and less than calling yourselves "boyfriend/girlfriend" or equivalent.

Suffering in Triplicate, or My New State Sucks

Apparently, some asswipe Republican has proposed a law that would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for women to fail to report miscarriages--within twelve hours of the awful event. This would include all the clinical data that would be taken by a medical professional in the event of a fetal death--even if you didn't see a doctor, or didn't see one right away. Other Class 1 misdemeanors? Statutory rape, providing alcohol to minors, carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence, and stalking. (all taken from the link, which does better than I'm going to do here.

Why put this burden on the suffering mother? Presumably, the article states, to advance the notion of the unborn as persons, whose deaths are worth noting. I don't get why anti-abortion activists would think they can change the minds of those who have decided the rights of the mother are more important by submitting the naturally miscarried to bureaucractic processing.

I'll do my part to make my voice heard here, but I wanted to alert you if this comes to your state anytime soon.

H-Dog in da State Department

This Fark threadis headlined by an observation that the new Deputy Sec. of State bears a resemblance to Onion columnist Herbert Kornfeld.

Scroll down the thread to see "nominations" of other columnists to other posts, such as T. Herman Zwiebel to the treasury.

Well, I found it funny, anyway.

In case of attack...

Get yourselves and family to the underground shelter. Oh, and don't forget portraits of Fearless Leader.

No, not that one.

You know, when reading the main story, my bullshit detector actually set off. But with North Korea, who really knows? I'm tempted to write some complete piece of crap as a "leak" from North Korea and see if anyone notices.

The Amazing Race 6--"One of You, I'm Gonna Break in Half"

And, we return to actual racing. I think.

My current guess is that the rest of the leg will take the rest of this episode--keep in mind they got $400, and where have they spent it? I'm thinking that the leg is running more than 24 hours and they gave them money for food and a room. The train back to Budapest couldn't have been that much, could it?

Larry has already called Adam offering to jump off of the bridge. I mistakenly guessed earlier this leg that Adam would offer to lie down in the road.