Archive - Feb 2008

Now, this is useful.have your cake and read more too!

Because it's Friday afternoon and I don't have much going on. Swiped from Sheila. Here are the rules: Bold movies you have watched and liked. Turn red movies you have watched and loved. Italicize movies you saw and didn’t like. Leave as is movies you haven’t seen. You got it? Read the rules a few times for good measure, so that this list makes sense. You ready? Ok. away we go.have your cake and read more too!

Because what's been missing around here lately is some random outrage on my behalf. Sorry. I've been slacking. I'll try to do better in the future, but, I present to you, my devoted Cake Eater readers, my effort to try and fix the problem. 1. I just looked at my calendar for next week, and it appears Daylight Savings Time starts next Sunday, March 9th. WHAT THE HELL? That seems a wee bit early, eh? If things continue apace, we're still going to have snow on the ground. How, precisely, is that going to help the farmers in this neck of the woods, eh?have your cake and read more too!

Here you go darling: the Ironman trailer you saw whilst you were forced to endure yet another scintillating episode of Lost last night. The husband said, and I quote directly, "Please don't suck.have your cake and read more too!

A little background on Russia's putative president, Dmitry Medvedev. Go read the whole thing. It's long, but it's worth it. If you can't be bothered, the upshot is that Medvedev is strikingly low key, and has generally been discharged in the past with seeing to it that Vlad's desires have been fulfilled, that it seems likely he'll do the same when he's elected President.have your cake and read more too!

Yes, you. My district's representative in the Minnesota house, who've I've voted for any number of times since I moved to Cake Eater land almost ten years ago. Ahem. YOU'VE JUST LOST MY VOTE. Jagoff.

People come to Minnesota from all over the region to buy clothing, in large part because the state charges no sales tax on clothes. But now two state lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle at the Capitol have introduced bills that would repeal that exemption.have your cake and read more too!

I didn't think it was possible. William F. Buckley, dead at age 82. You can find the NY Times obituary here. I honestly thought he'd outlive us all. A man with a brain as big as his, it would seem, would figure out a way to cheat death. Unfortunately, he was as mortal as the rest of us. I remember, way back in the day, watching Firing Line and wondering how his brain worked.have your cake and read more too!

Courtesy of Dearest Jonathan, we have a remix of the new Indy trailer, cut specifically to make it look like the trailers of yore.have your cake and read more too!

The husband just sent me a link to this post with the title line of the email stating, ahem, "MUST HAVE!" What must the husband have? you, my devoted Cake Eater readers, ask. Well, I'm glad you asked, because it's basically a Craftmatic adjustable bed. For extreme dorks.have your cake and read more too!

While the last three paragraphs are crap, I agreewith everything Gideon Rachman has to say in his column this week.

Even his most bitter opponents grant Barack Obama one thing – he makes great speeches. The senator from Illinois is generally held to be a competent debater and an electrifying orator. The notion that Mr Obama is the new Demosthenes has even made it across the Atlantic.have your cake and read more too!