...you will think of after reading this:
Dave Freeman, co-author of “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47.
... is "did he do them all?"
Apparently the answer is No.
(and if you're a blogger, and see this story, you will immediately write a post making this same joke)
Sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble:
Could you win the decathlon by doing exceedingly poorly? Well, the math is complex, and your scores would only count in the imaginary world. But, yes.
You’ll pardon me for having some confusion over the current state of Democratic thinking regarding multiple home ownership.
The fuck I will.
In 2004, the Democratic standard bearer owned multiple houses, and yet the party figured his wartime valor trumped that purported stain. Present-day secular saint Al Gore has parlayed his lucrative carbon offset racket into a lifestyle worthy of a 21st century Sun King. The left doesn’t seem to mind. And yet John McCain’s wealth is somehow a scandal?
I must question how genuinely scandalized the Democrats are by McCain’s wealth. Tonight, the Democrats will be honoring Ted Kennedy. Like McCain, Kennedy enjoys tremendous wealth. Also like McCain, the wealth that Kennedy enjoys has nothing to do with any personal industry he has shown. Of course, Kennedy’ wealth should in no way disqualify him from the honors he’ll receive tonight.
It's not about the fact that McCain's rich, it's about the fact that he has more homes than he can count, literally. McCain's life is so apparently divorced from common experience that asking if he knows anything about the needs of the masses, or if he can even relate to them, becomes a valid (and necessary, some would say) question to ask. It's not about his wealth, it's about the fact that he lives a pampered life, completely out of touch with the kinds of financial concerns the hundreds of millions of people who aren't John McCain, millionaire, live with.
Of course, that's bloody obvious to anyone who pays attention to this stuff. So maybe there's another reason a writer at a conservative magazine would fail to talk about the actual issue...
I only managed 40% on this MSNBC quiz about the American political parties' conventions. I think I guessed at each one.
List!
Listed!
Your password is "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz", right ?
I don't know what this thing is actually called. Googling for "hairy clam" or "bearded clam" only brings up things I can't click on at work, and a "spiny clam" has a few really long thick spikes, not a covering of fine quasi-hair, like this guy. "Furry clam", "Fuzzy clam", "Hirsute Clam"... all turn up nothing but crotch shots on Google image search. Any malacologists out there? (Do I dare bother the great and powerful PZ Myers ?)
Our friend, Summer, found this on the beach at Topsail Island, NC, a fwe months ago. I carried it back to the condo and forgot to give it back. And now it's mine. Mine all mine.
That little blob of white on the bottom is modeling clay - excellent stuff for holding small things in place while you photograph them.
It's probably a totally common shell, but not being shell collectors, none of us had ever seen one before.
I shall call it the Hairy Clam.
Or maybe it's some kind of cockle. "Hairy Cockle" works too.
