'Just Words' That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget

My personal favorite: "Speaking to the New York Observer: Biden was equally skeptical -- albeit in a slightly more backhanded way -- about Mr. Obama. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," he said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

My money (fake) is on Bayh for OB1 and Lieberman for Old Mac.

NBC has a really nice slide show up that highlights the complex signals used by beach volleyball players to communicate strategy.

Despite the dominance of the US's May-Treanor/Walsh combo, I'm giving the edge to Brazil in the rankings for firm, well-rounded, tightly executed strategy.

MMMMmmm. Strategy.

My wife asked where the Stealth Bomber went. I replied: It's hard to tell.

Catching the incoming gulls is a lot harder than it looks.

Yeah, no idea either.

What's with the poorly cropped architectural photos...? Oh, right.

F-22 Raptor: at $140 million per plane it is still a bargain.

You can be anywhere in 30 seconds.

Tax dollars hard at work for the past fifty years.

Nice teeth.

Who doesn't love a good Barn-stormer?

Bouya. Three series that made a huge difference this year: The 4-game sweep of the Brewers in WI; the 2-1 series with the Cards this past weekend; and the 3-game sweep in GA.

The first halted the Brewers when they were on a roll, and put Sabthia in his place. The second, told a rather good Cardinal team to step down. The third, kept the gas on while the Brewers were charging again and put them back a game further.

The single best part of this whole campaign season, for me, has been watching the Clinton ship sink.

This fantastic article just warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe even in the sub-cockle area.

Just one quote:

"Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence--on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to "do the job from Day One." In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles' heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton's loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency. What follows is the inside account of how the campaign for the seemingly unstoppable Democratic nominee came into being, and then came apart."

I hate to think how close we came to having her in The Chair.

Energy Independence: A Bi-Partisan Pander

"Indeed, true [energy] independence will only be achieved when we can harness the voluminous quantities of hot air being generated by our political leaders. That, at least, appears to be an infinitely renewable resource."

Indeed. The rest is actually a good article. Consider this:

1. Inflating tire to their proper pressure is estimated to affect a 2%-3% increase in efficiency.
2. The Gas-Holiday could lift 18¢ of a gallon a gas. At $4.00/g that's 4.5%.
3. Since the oil market is fungible (thanks Savage), no matter how much oil the U.S. produces domestic production will still be more expensive than the Middle East. Unless you want to mandate where we buy our oil from and in doing so pay even higher prices for gas, Saudi Arabia is here to stay.
4. If we cannot drill our way out of this problem, we clearly cannot grow our way out either. The US cannot produce enough ethanol to make a serious dent in the oil demand without converting every farm between the coasts to ethanol production. Even if that happened, and food prices went through the roof globally, the production and transportation of the ethanol will only increase oil usage. Ethanol cannot be transported in pipes due to condensation. Those 18 wheelers and combines used to produce it are not hybrids. Add to that the fact that ethanol is roughly 1/4 less efficient in terms of energy output. So, you need 1.25 1.33* gallons to get you as far as 1 gallon of gas.
5. As alternative energy sources come online in the next decade or so, their usage will reduce the demand for gas. Thus driving the cost of gas down. Add to that the fact that the internal combustion engine is really cheap to make, and a sure thing when compared to other new technologies, and gas is not leaving the scene until the wells become too expensive to drill.

*1gal. gas = 40 miles; 1gal. ethanol = 30 miles; 1/3 gal. ethanol gives you the extra 10 miles to catch up to gas. The actual drop in efficiency is about 27% not 25%, but the math still holds.

Fucking hilarious! (and I use the bang sparingly) Unless of course, you happen to be a man that wears skimpy shorts and acts like wimp. Then I could see why you would be offended. To which, I do not give a shit, and would like to suggest not acting like a sissy and as the ad declares - Get Some Nuts!!!