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Really annoying in this case.

Oh, and Washington D.C. has a really annoyingnon-voting member of the House of Reps. Some people are not made for public speaking. As an extra bit of knowledge, there was a proposed constitutional amendment to give the District of Columbia the full voting rights of a state in 1985. 38 state legislatures would have to have agreed to it for it to have happened. 16 did.

I for one praise those other states. D.C. is primarily under the control of the Congress (and through some laws they passed it has its own mayor and council) and I don’t think that reciprocal power (voting rights and political control) would be a necessarily good thing.

Oh, and Bob Barr was on the Colbert Report last night. I don’t know if I’m voting for him. I’ll vote for his mustache though.

The tribute to the robot helmets was a nice touch. They are also lucky there aren’t more words to the song.

To emphasize further how few words there are in the song (although it has much awesomeness)

And then last but maybe least but still entertaining

Still here? You have too much free time. Read this post.

I can totally see Sage doing this.

Editor’s note: video embedded

sloth: 10^(220-10) is how many pieces of pizza I’m going to eat at lunch
sloth: roughly
sage: roughly… that’s a shit ton of pizza
sloth: a shit ton is 10^150
sloth: so it’s actually more than that
sage: that’s almost a shit-ton of shit-tons
sage: shitshit-ton?
sage: ohshit-ton?
sage: nawh, an ohshit-ton is anything that falls on you
sloth: ohshit-ton is a measurement of compressive force
sloth: shitshit-ton would be explosive force
sloth: holyshit-ton is a measurement of surprise
sage: in number of “oh shits”?
sloth: yeah

So there’s some rumors out there about maybe a Battletoads movie. There’s even a trailer.

Let’s talk about some of these things.

• Clips used in the trailer are from other trailer (TMNT , Watchmen, maybe others).
• The voice over in the trailer doesn’t sound like it’s from a good studio. Maybe someone’s basement?
• The domain name is registered by Domains By Proxy, Universal doesn’t do that.
• The movie is supposed to come out in one (1) month and we haven’t heard anything about it.
• IMDB is unaware of the existence of any Battletoads movie, and IMDB is god.
• How the hell is L. Ron Hubbard supposed to produce this movie?
• Will Smith and Sammy L. J. I get, where did Eddie Murphy come from?
• Longcat Pictures and Wirah Productions don’t even exist. I bet Wirah is the handle of whoever made this.

However, it has one redeeming factor. It’s on the intertubes, thus it has to be true. I’m pumped.

From trying to sell the wife on a logitech programmable remote.

Hey wife, read this blog post.

Tyler Cohen (who is one of the few people who write posts I actually look forward to reading in my many RSS feeds) writes about Saudi Arabia’s new ban on selling cats and dogs as pets.

It seems that the Saudi religious police are taking the fact that men are walking cats and dogs (seriously, walking cats?) to make passes on women. From Tyler’s post:

The final question, of course, is how do you use a pet cat to make a pass at a woman? I’ve heard of people walking their cats, but I expect it is not an easy experience. To limit sex, cats should be subsidized, not taxed. No?

So I wonder. Is the Saudi society somehow undermined if people meet each other on a sidewalk? Is this a threat to arranged marriage or something?

I see promising gains being made all over the world in freedom and acceptance of differences. And then I look at one small area of the world full of ignorance and fossil fuels and I scratch my head.

Oh, and the cats make their own arrangements when that time comes around, but I have to lock the dog up in the basement or the bathroom or something or he just starts barking. So in my experience at least cats aren’t as bad as Tyler makes out.