"Obama!" The Musical

Is it over?

Is it over? Is this how it felt to consider Viet Nam in the early 70s? How long until violence explodes again and we feel the obligation to reenter for further combat missions?

Either way, I hope that the soldiers coming home find peace and welcome.

RIP Dodgers 2010

I'll still watch this year, but c'mon, it's over.

El Museo de las Momias

This is how Jenny and I spent our Sunday afternoon.

We weren't mummified actually, but just walking around a museum looking at mummies. I think in the US, a museum like this would be successful, but there would be far fewer tiny little children being taken in to the place. In Mexico, they have this real interest in death, in a way that is a little spectacle with a little celebration. Here, they have Dia de los Muertos, all the skulls, devil masks, and crucifixes everywhere. The Mummy Museum fits with all that.

Fellow workers...

Nurses rock.

The California Nurses Association's "Queen Meg 2010" parody is awesome. Especially clever are the sash-wearing escorts, Goldman and Sachs:



I don't understand why these folks try to take on nurses, firefighters, cops, and teachers, but they do.

Jonathan Broxton

Trade. Him. Now.
Big John says: "I'm fat and the Dodgers should trade me for a starting pitcher while I'm still marketable."

Are you kidding me?

Glenn Beck is going to hold a crazy Tea Party event on the Anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech. Are you kidding me? Glenn Beck and other like-minded conservatives are trying to frame Dr. King's vision as a right-wing one? There is only one response for that. Glenn Beck is a liar. Observe (picture that HR is Glenn Beck):