tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83412472024-03-07T15:24:54.497-05:00are you effin' kidding me?chain smoking, drunk and (more often than not)pissed off in md.baltimore.hampden.<br>
"I notice that you hail from Baltimore, a city whose residents fall into one of two categories, in my observation: (1) persons of exceeding wit and ingenuity, and (2) complete idiots. Your commentary, quite honestly, lends itself equally well to either proposition." <a href = "http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_049.html">*</a>jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1013125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-75196761102770981802011-07-02T22:24:00.002-05:002011-07-02T22:31:12.146-05:00I know you don't want to hear this.President Bachmann. Seriously. Our dude in the Whitehouse doesn't seem to be willing to do what it takes. So, say it with me. "President Bachmann". I am not effin' kidding you. What to do about it? I don't know. But if he continues what he's doing now I have two words for you: "President Bachmann". They laughed about Reagan the same way they do about her. That's all I got. See you later.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-9598777677309352422011-01-14T15:56:00.002-05:002011-01-14T15:59:57.131-05:00With All That Cognitive DissonanceIt's a wonder they can even speak at all. Shorter Palin et al: "If you traitorous bastards don't stop accusing us of using eliminationist rhetoric we are just going to have to shoot you."jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-88048731714981196242010-10-28T08:54:00.003-05:002010-10-28T09:01:04.493-05:00A Simple QuestionIn all the talk about the Rand Paul supporter stomping on a Move-On activist an important simple facet has been lost. The stomper - Mr. Profitt - has claimed that he stomped because he has a bad back. Why has no one asked the simplest question? "Mr. Profitt, if you've got a bad back, why did you volunteer for such an obviously physical activity as crowd control?" There really are only two jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-40908299325629486752010-07-06T22:11:00.002-05:002010-07-06T23:01:00.399-05:00Note to My Fellow AmericansWe pay attention to Niall Ferguson at our peril.Let me start with a personal anecdote. Last year I went to visit my grandmother for her birthday, and mere hours before she fell down, broke her hip and then insisted she be taken to her birthday meal to get a steak and decent scotch, she told me that my brother had given her a copy of Ferguson's The Ascent of Money and that she had read it but jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-48544973840511261122010-04-20T23:00:00.001-05:002010-04-20T23:00:45.750-05:00Dear Joe ScarboroughFuck you. I work for a living, asshole.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-12511129766397105852010-04-07T10:09:00.003-05:002010-04-07T10:10:31.053-05:00You gotchyerself a witness.We offer up a hale and hearty "Amen!"jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-21314341327942455572010-03-23T12:58:00.001-05:002010-03-23T12:59:42.348-05:00Good evening, there is very little weather throughout the United States.Also, Local Reactions Vary on Health Care Reform.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-50446302451171413722010-03-22T04:14:00.003-05:002010-03-22T04:15:28.742-05:00Now that HCR has passed, a prediction:In November we will discover that the number of Americans that hate losers is larger than the number of Americans that fear Communism.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-85586227349848500932009-12-02T12:03:00.003-05:002009-12-02T12:42:31.863-05:00"The Cathedral And The Bazaar" was also a load of crap.I view it as my duty as a programmer to point out that being a programmer does not qualify you to be much of anything other than a programmer. The best part? Raymond's attempt at digital forensics fails due to his inability to READ THE EFFIN' SOURCECODE. For a list of things that being a programmer does not, by default, qualify you to do, find a list of professions that does not include "jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-56403645668050611822009-11-20T09:45:00.001-05:002009-11-20T09:47:11.686-05:00Submitted without comment (or context)An wide-open marketplace of ideas hardly looks attractive when the result is the intellectual ascendancy of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. (context here.)jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-55156653460186085782009-10-07T09:34:00.000-05:002009-10-07T09:35:50.778-05:00Read this Alternate Brain on Afghanistan. jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-24033729284714094502009-08-20T08:45:00.000-05:002009-08-20T08:46:01.284-05:00Just Read ThisPlease please please.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-60900927060387648752009-08-11T09:42:00.002-05:002009-08-11T09:51:39.738-05:00Healthcare MY ASS!The Government should stay out of personal decisions like health care and stick to telling us who we can marry. For a long time, I made the decision to be too poor to afford health care. Man it felt good to not have The Government getting involved in that decision. I want the freedom to break a leg and set the fracture with bailing wire and part of my Rock’em Sock’em Robot set. First we let SuperOceanLadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01657333660915800103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-67267037444345701572009-07-27T21:54:00.002-05:002009-07-27T22:02:39.870-05:00(cough)I know Palin has supposedly, finally, turned herself into a complete joke and her political career into mist. So keep laughing (I know I am). Then remember what they said about a certain draft-dodging rehab'ed drunk ex-fratboy who could barely speak English. Or the senile actor before him. There's a bit of a longer list actually, but there's not much point in being bored by it. If there is one jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-7364213146077296922009-04-29T20:42:00.000-05:002009-04-29T20:43:11.454-05:00All Swine, No Flu?You didn’t think that the federal government would come to the dance without a partner, did you? For the past few months, my office has been involved in CDC preparedness for an influenza pandemic. I can’t really get into the details, but given recent developments I thought I’d share some observations and insights about pandemic planning as an FYI with you (both of you who still read this blog BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-73450687365398325432009-01-11T11:59:00.002-05:002009-01-11T12:06:36.944-05:00Madness and LoveIt’s been a long time since I contributed anything to this blog. I don’t even know if anyone reads this anymore.I’ve decided to write some thoughts here about a close friend of mine. I’ve chosen this blog because its one this particular friend does not know about, and hence he will not know I have written this.Some of you may know that after obtaining my bachelor’s degree, I lived and worked in BETCHAFIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062482450561815518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-17863966756496121032008-11-13T08:34:00.002-05:002008-11-13T09:02:59.686-05:00What the suburbs mean to me:The incessant drone of leaf blowers.Morning noon and night. Backpacks, push models, electric and gas.They join together to form a background cacophony.A discordant harmony that sits on your ears, weighing down your brain.The full effect only truly realized when it stops for a momentand blessed silence returns just long enough to fall in love with it again.It's always there, this anti-Buddhist Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-55478369387403760422008-09-29T21:52:00.004-05:002008-09-29T23:19:19.068-05:00Effin' Main StreetHow many times have you heard it since last week?"What about Main Street?"On the radio. On the TV.Fox news. NPR.From the mouths of politicians and pundits alike.Main street. Main street. What about Main Street?In my liberal world I've heard it from at least 3 different NPR hosts and SEVERAL guests. I've heard it on MSNBC and CNN. Seen Pelosi say it. Seen Obama say it. McCain, Reid, etc. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-53793895103393386902008-08-01T19:41:00.004-05:002008-08-01T20:04:56.858-05:00Democrats, transgenderedForeign policy expert Samantha Power may have thrown herself under the Barack Obama bus after being caught calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during the primaries, but if Obama is reading the New York Review of Books, he can still take her counsel.Powers's piece in NYRB argues that the Democrats are on the verge of transforming themselves from the Mommy party to the Daddy party.Between Obama's disappearinginkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09180633669701930363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-42402605650974656052008-07-09T12:43:00.002-05:002008-07-09T12:46:06.953-05:00"Until he proves me wrong..."Until he proves me wrong Tom Delay is a criminal and a degenerate.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-16030546465879743282008-04-23T10:10:00.003-05:002008-04-23T10:11:35.009-05:00Quoted without commentD-squared::"The great thing about the market mechanism, of course, is that when it kills a million people, it doesn't leave fingerprints."jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-4806675275139535662008-03-07T18:13:00.002-05:002008-03-07T18:17:57.186-05:00Strolling in the gardenA bit of inside Batlimore media baseball: Marc Steiner is no longer with WYPR. Bad for them and us. Good for us is that he's figured out that he can do his own podcasts which he releases through the auspices of his Center for Emerging Media. If you're a Wire fan then you should check out his series of related podcasts. All the usual faces are there including David Simon and Ed Burns. Also jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-25960739551637185312007-12-10T12:12:00.000-05:002007-12-10T12:41:21.983-05:00One ParkI've been keeping a somewhat suspicious eye on the new Open Society Institute blog that is supposed to share big ideas about how to fix the city. This week's posting by Steve Ziger is interesting: make a big park through and around Baltimore. It seems like a great idea, but also raises a bunch of questions. Mine, in no particular order, are these: how do you police that space? Much of the Dave G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07610115871540518305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-23128475029923713312007-11-26T09:08:00.000-05:002007-11-26T09:09:22.695-05:00I can only summarize this with sound effectsSo I won't bother... Read it, you know?jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341247.post-24099066542026159612007-11-13T18:12:00.001-05:002007-11-13T18:12:13.644-05:00I'm breathing easier too...Rodger Payne at the Duck on the (unlikely existence of) suitcase nukes.jayinbmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646154228871084092noreply@blogger.com0