Category: words mean things (Page 20 of 223)

Spam, spam, spam, ham and spam

Last night I received a can of Spam as a gift. (I was going to post the story behind this, but it’s just too complicated for the payoff you’d get.) Which leads to a question – has anyone actually eaten this stuff? I never have, and I’m curious to hear other people’s experiences.

I went onto spam.com and there were some truly scary recipes there: Spam and Turkey Muffins, and Spam and Jam Layered Sandwich, to name two. I feel like I should eat this stuff just to say I’ve eaten it. But does anyone know how it can be prepared to make it palatable? I seem to remember people saying the texture was “spongy,” which doesn’t bode well at all.

Let’s just call it the Words Mean Things Spam Recipe Contest.

Thought experiment

Did Monica Lewinsky hand this country over to George W. Bush?

My answer is, sadly, yes.

Extravagance

I tend to buy as much stuff for myself at Christmastime as I do for other people. You know, you’re out at the stores, looking for gifts, and you think, hey, I’d really like that myself. Not in the spirit of the season, certainly, but it’s a trap I seem to fall into every year.

This year I took it to insane extremes. I bought a 34-inch Sony HDTV 16×9 TV. It’s not huge compared to my old TV, but because it has the wide aspect ratio, watching a widescreen movie on DVD is amazing. It’s a thing of beauty. I feel like I’m living in “the very near future.” It was expensive, but I’m paying it off over two years and I know I’ll have it for many years to come. So I’ve gotten over my anti-consumerist guilt – pretty much.

And as if I needed another reason never to move from my condo, now I have another one: the damn TV is so heavy, I doubt I’ll ever be able to get it out of here.

Anyone want to come over and watch “The Matrix” with me?

A rose is a rose

Have you noticed how conservatives are running away from the term “conservative”? Bill O’Reilly says he runs “The No Spin Zone,” even though the registered Republican should be taking Dramamine every night. Dean Esmay, the neocon’s neocon, calls himself a “liberal” because he’s “open-minded” or something. (I was just called a “reactionary” over there, which shows you how deep the rabbit hole goes.) And you should see him shriek like a banshee when he’s called a neocon, even though he lines up perfectly with the neocon view of the Iraq war.

Why are these guys so ashamed of their views? I know liberals kept “liberal” even when it was tantamount to “vicious baby-killing communist.” Too bad these guys (and so many others like them) don’t have the courage of their convictions.

Words mean things.

I’m just sayin’

I can die a happy man as soon as George W. Bush says the phrase, “President-Elect Dean.”

I figure I’ve got about a year to wait.

Department of Is Anyone Frickin’ Paying Attention?

-Halliburton gets $222 million more business in Iraq, putting their total no-bid haul at $2.26 billion. This despite overcharging for gas (!) in Iraq to the tune of $61 million.

-A U.S. Senator revealed this week that the administration told him and other senators that not only did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, but they also had capability to deliver those WMDs to East Coast cities.

Chronicling all this stuff is getting tiring. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, like sewage down a drainpipe. And pretty soon, if we don’t watch out, we’re gonna drown.

Celebrity Quote of the Day

“I haven’t changed, though,” insists the former bricklayer. “I still have my assistant put my pants on one leg at a time like everybody else.”

-“King of Queens” star Kevin James on his sitcom fame, in TV Guide

Do the math

The right wing loves Joe Lieberman. The right wing hates (hates hates hates) Howard Dean.

Hmmmm.

I wonder which candidate I should support?

Rhetorical question

Do you think every time Alan Colmes has to say “You are watching the network you trust for real news – fair and balanced” into the camera, his soul dies a little?

Quote of the day

“Republicans are big on giving Democrats advice these days, especially on how to conduct campaigns. It’s like Tonya Harding coaching Nancy Kerrigan on the finer points of sportsmanship.”

-P.M. Carpenter, History News Network (via Smirking Chimp)