Triad SmartyPants provides the post with today's headline of the day: Got a Ladystache?
As a guy with his own hair issues I'm sympathetic of anyone who feels they have hair in all the wrong places.
If you haven't already seen this, you really should give it a look. William Shatner doing Sarah Palin's farewell speech as a poem.
My two oldest kids are at the driving stage. The oldest will be getting his license any day now and the middle kid has her learners. I'd like to say that I'm confident, but when I have nightmares it tends to be of my kids driving like the person in the video below:
Although I grew up all over Northern Virginia (the joke in my family is that we moved every few years because my Mom hated redecorating) the place I think of when I think of my childhood is Arlington. We moved there when I was in 7th grade and stayed through the end of 10th grade and those were some formative years for me. The Arlington of the late 70s and early 80s that I remember was a little rough around the edges, with neighborhoods like Ballston and Clarendon epitomized by retail strips that had seen better days and some neighborhoods that were teetering on the edge of going to seed. Well in the 80s the Orange line of the Metro system was finished and the stops in Arlington attracted all kinds of development and there isn't much of Arlington, the smallest county in Virginia and located right across the Potomac from DC, that hasn't be redeveloped. Heck, it's downright upscale these days. That's what makes this video, Arlington: The Rap so funny. Thanks to my buddy Rich for sending me the link.
What do you get when you combine a tree pollen count of, like, 80-quadzillion and combine it with a weekend soccer tournament that requires sitting at Sara Lee Park for something like 15 hours in 90 degree heat? A really hot, sunburned and smelly middle aged guy who can't breathe. Welcome to my hell, otherwise known as "Snotsville".
The Sunlight Foundation has released a funny yet meaningless report about CongressCritters' favorite words. Their Capitol Words project takes speeches recorded in the Congressional Record to calculate the frequency of specific words used by each member of Congress. When I clicked on North Carolina on their interactive map I found out the following:
Some times stories just tell themselves. Here are the two headlines that were at the top of my WXII12 news feed in Google Reader when I opened it up:
Put those two together and you have quite the crime family.
The folks at WXII continue to wow me with their headline writing prowess. In today's example they give a car on I-77 remarkable powers: Speeding Car Shoots at 3 Tractor-Trailers.
I'm willing to bet your Easter Sunday was a tad more relaxing than mine. To begin with my Easter-eve didn't end until well after 4 a.m. because, well, just because. And it wasn't a good "because." Then we overslept and didn't make it to Easter service, which is saying something since the service didn't start until 11. After that I decided to take care of all the bushes that had been torn out of our front yard and made into two big piles when our new septic field was installed last week. I lost count, but I think it was something like ten mature bushes and one small tree that were all piled together, and since bushes are bushy they weren't easy to get apart, and trimmed down and moved to our rather large brush pile in the woods behind the house. Even with the kids' help it took the better part of five hours and let me tell you those root balls weren't light. The fact that my chainsaw broke down midway through and I had to start sawing by hand didn't help matters, and of course the fact that I'm not exactly in fighting trim hurt my cause too.
Befuddled 