The News Journal, Delaware’s local propaganda sheet, I mean, newspaper, is trying to make a case as to why Delaware is better than any other state.
This is a good exercise in spin. I know my wife is going to have a ball with this one.

Colorado: Forget that Rocky Mountain freshness. Try a taste test of any Delaware microbrew against Coors. We know which will win. Beer that has traveled 2,000 miles does not improve with distance.

Oh yeah, give me a break. You have a few small restaurant breweries in Delaware, half of which have closed or are in the process of closing. Colorado is known as the microbrew capital of the US.
Sorry Delaware, but when even our Doctor is telling us we need to move away from the tristate area because of how bad the pollution is, you don’t have a chance anymore.

Even more boring than the sitting at the dr’s office? A change control meeting when you only have 2 days left on the job.

Jay Reding has a nice fisking on Maureen Dowd. Where else can you hear something like this?

Mullygrubs sounds like Cockney term for a venereal disease.

Not much more boring than sitting at the doctor’s office in the waiting room…

After lawyers, that is…
I vote for the traffic engineers. Now, I’m sure they’re nice people doing a hard job, but there has to be a better way of managing traffic than making sure that no matter where you go, once you hit one red light, you will hit every single red light as long as you stay on that road.
But once again, technology may have a solution. Slashdot has a link to an article about self-adapting stoplights. If you were part of a group of cars approaching a red light, inexpensive traffic-flow sensors would detect your group in advance and turn the light to green.
Sounds like good stuff. What are they waiting for?

I missed the citation for this, but while flipping radio channels on the way in to work, I caught a story about someone who stole a delivery truck full of donuts.
But the back door was ajar, and as the burglar took off, donuts kept falling out of the back of the truck.
Leaving a really nice trail down the highway.
Which the local police were able to follow on foot, without resorting to jelly-sniffing hound dogs, or a helicopter with glazed seeking radar.
They found the truck a short time later and called in a 10-60.

If it even takes that long.
Fastest, simplest drinking game ever.
Andrew Ian Dodge likes to watch Deadwood on HBO, and has whipped up a drinking game. Simple rules: Every time someone cusses, you take a shot. I’d like to add that every time a woman cusses on it, you drink twice.
Hmmm… only one problem: The shots will have to come so fast and furious, you won’t have time to keep pouring. You would just have to go out to the restaurant supply store and pick up a large case of shotglasses, and have them all filled before the show starts.
Since the game ends not when the show is over, but when you fall flat on your back, or front, or however you happen to land, you only need as many shot glasses as you can physically handle.
But you know what? I love that show…

Sometimes the differences between conservatives and liberals have to be examined closely in technical language, with deep analysis about tax laws, consititutionality of various laws, and the relationship to the UN.
Other times, it is written in such plain language that it is a delight to read. A comment over at the 2004 Weblog Awards by “song and dance man” lays it all out just perfectly.

Conservatives, inspired by a remark of the legendary Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker Jack Lambert, believe quarterbacks should be required to wear skirts, so they can more easily be distinguished from real football players.
James Brown and Ray Charles are conservatives. Michael Jackson and Milli Vanilli are liberals.
Most social workers, personal injury lawyers, journalists, and group therapists are liberals. Most ranchers, loggers, professional soldiers, and steeplejacks are conservatives.
Liberal jurors distrust the prosecutors and police. Conservatives figure the defendant must be guilty or he wouldn’t be on trial.
Most conservatives not only believe in the death penalty, they would cheerfully implement it, personally, if called upon to do so.
Liberals think capital punishment is a barbaric relic, and unfair to boot.
Liberals believe Europeans are, generally speaking, far more enlightened than Americans. Conservatives think they’re basically decadent, as evidenced by their complete absence in wars.
Typical conservative movies are “Raising Arizona”, “Patton”, and “Conan the Barbarian”. Typical liberal movies are “Prince of Tides”, “Last Tango in Paris”, and “The Big Chill”.
The quintessential liberal is the handicapper, the person who decides how much extra weight to saddle the faster horses with in order to make the race “fair”.
The American cowboy, of course, is your basic, full bore conservative. A hundred years ago an Englishman in South Dakota was trying to find the owner of a huge cattle ranch. He rode up to one of the ranch hands and asked, “Excuse me, but could you tell me where to find your Master?” To which the cowboy replied, “That sumbitch hasn’t been born.”

Dodgeblogium has “alternative” style horoscopes. Makes more sense than whats in the paper! My personal horoscope:

Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 22) - You are the worst of the lot. You are shrewd
in business and cannot be trusted. You shall achieve the pinnacle of
success because of your total lack of ethics. You are the perfect
son-of-a-bitch. Most Scorpios are murdered.

As you can see, Day by Day cartoon is back and publishing!!! Thank you Chris Muir!!! Woo hoo…
He even has new graphics up on his site. And a store is coming in January with coffee mugs and other great items. Thanks again Chris, I love your toon!
Others picking up the story are the Daily Brief and DGCI!