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This isn’t really brilliant or original, but its accuracy and thoroughness did impress me. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot that they left out.

I will try to see if I can embed video; if not, just use the link above.

Or maybe Warren Ellis. Possibly more germane to this context, as “once again i have failed to die quietly in the night.”

Honestly, I don’t fucking know. I’m not sure this thing is even on. I actually am in the process of writing something coherent and, ideally, even interesting, though in part for that reason you aren’t ever going to see it here. Plus it will probably clock in around 100,000 words when finished.

Meanwhile, I don’t have that much left for SB, most of the time. But I feel like a break, so let’s post some interesting quotes. It’s been quite a while anyway.

I like this one: “I remember once riding in a cab with a libertarian friend. ‘In that respect, I follow Hayek,’ she concluded. The cabdriver chimed in: ‘I follow Salma Hayek.’” -E.G.

Also excellent: “Whenever someone says, ‘I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart,’ all I hear is, ‘I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart.’” – Domonique Foxworth

And I really love “…the old joke about British public servants shouting ‘What do we want? Gradual change. When do we want it? In due course.’” Thank you Greenpeace for bringing it to my attention.

Military wisdom, per Al Lowe, who may not be the first source one would think of for such, but these seem plausible. And funny: “If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him. — Infantry Journal” Also, “When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend  — USMC”

This comment by David Weigel was more amusing back before President Obama decided that it would be best if he could offend both sides of the argument over Keystone XL: “Republicans in Congress are hugging the pipeline so tight that it’s squeaking.” Still, nice turn of phrase.

Another relatively serious but very good point about contemporary politics, from Mark Evanier: “John McCain is once again eager for this country to go to war. If this man had been elected president, we’d be in about nine by now.”

And, as we watch said politics remain largely preoccupied with a presidential primary deathmarch that seems like it will never end, the BBC provides a reminder of how things were in the good old days: “But further in the past, conventions were nail-biting affairs with all the decorum of a wild-west cattle sale. Desperate and sweaty men pace around each other in hotel suites, threatening and tempting by turns. City and state power brokers dangled ‘their’ delegates, holding out for more bourbon and bigger bribes.”

Yeah, me too. I mean I can’t confirm that I actually have any specific number of Republican Convention delegates, but then from what I read everyone else is having a difficult time with that also. And, I would probably be satisfied with either more bourbon or a bigger bribe. Who else is going to make you a better offer, hm?

Like my amigo Sean and, I suspect, most American atheists, I celebrate Christmas. And why not:

By Tony Piro

Peace out, buffalo peeps. Have a merry whateverthefuck, see you when I feel like posting again.