Pawprints From Space

Is it just me? I mean, has this occured to anyone else? The recent death of the Ex-KGB guy Litinenko in England from poisoning via Polonium 210 and all the news coverage of his ordeal while awful and horrific sparked a weird little giggle in the back of my head. I am a fan of the Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian and I am sorry but the isotope Polonium 210 sounds WAY too much like Marvin's coveted Illudium Q-36. As in the power behind the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (with which he was going ot blow up the Earth because it blocked his view of Venus) and the focus of the race between Marvin and Duck Dodgers to Planet X the last known source of Illudium. This weird little giggle is either a case of too much caffeine or not enough.

I am about ready to throw the printer through the window. I have cleaned the print heads, I have aligned and I have even cleaned the rollers and installed new cartridges. All to no avail. I have ink blots the size of dimes on my printouts. These are papers that I have to turn in for grades you see so I am not happy. Not one little tiny bit. The printer is not old. It has not been used and abused. On the advice of trusted geeks and the paperwork that came with the thing I do not shut it off (ever) as the ink can get "cold" and be useless. Wonderful way to screw up a Sunday. Oh yeah.

Yes indeed as we all now know the Democrats have control of Congress and George Bush is eating a bit of crow these days. As the new Senator Brown from Ohio put it though (to paraphrase) if the Democrats go in seeking revenge they will lose. In my opinion, the country has asked for change. The Democrats have a mandate from the people to enact change. They can not afford to screw it up by throwing subpoenas at everything that moves and generally acting like the sheriff in a bad western seeking to gun down the bad guys and clean up the town at the point of his gun. You got elected. You have the power. Now play nice. And while you are at it get a dictionary that contains the word bipartisan.

Gotta love politics, it is just too funny. And you gotta love the folks in Tennessee for trying to have fun with it. Apparently there is this Senate race over there wherein the guys running the campaign are trying to be funny. And they are succeeding and of course the other party is extremely annoyed by this. The guy running is a Democrat currently serving in the House named Harold Ford Jr. Those "bad" Republicans have been running an ad featuring mock voters giving silly reasons to vote for him. Including such things as he "looks nice... isn't that enough?", "so he took money from porn movie producers... who hasn't" and closing with a pretty blonde who says she met him at a party and the Playboy mansion whereupon she winks at the camera and gushes "Harold, call me". C'mon guys isn't this more fun than the usual mud slinging? Sure it is a little muddy but instead of the sweet old lady saying how she doesn't trust Senator What...