#recordscratch And then along came Hitler!

My dad is currently watching an “According to Jim” rerun, in accordance with International Dad Law.

Mom made Cookie Cake Pie: Oreo crust, choc. chip cookie dough, yellow cake mix, choc. frosting. DELICIOUS. You can’t eat a lot of it, tho.

Bill O’Reilly says that since Bush and Cheney haven’t been arrested, Gitmo torture must have been legal. http://tinyurl.com/n765l4

“Socialized medicine” and “single-payer healthcare” defined, explained. http://tinyurl.com/l2uhsx

Scandal! “30 Rock” is a shameless ripoff of “The Muppet Show”! http://tinyurl.com/msa8ow

For fun, sometimes I like to read the letters to the editor published in the Deseret News (in Salt Lake City) and the Daily Herald (in Provo, Utah). These papers have a lot of readers who are uptight, self-righteous, and/or insane, and like most uptight, self-righteous, and/or insane people, they are eager to broadcast it. Here are a few letters from recent days.

Deseret News, May 31:

I’m sure I won’t be the only reader responding to your article on profanity. I couldn’t believe the first sentence about “beating the crap out of …”

Perhaps you don’t think this word qualifies as profanity. That is inexcusable. Especially considering the subject of the article. If this word was used to shock those who read the piece, it is no different than screenwriters who put such words into movie and television scripts.

Barbara A. Lyman
American Fork

Barb employs two of the hallmarks of the self-righteous letter. First, she says she’s sure she won’t be the only one to complain — in other words, “Surely my opinion is widely held! Surely I am not in the fringe!” Then she says that if you don’t think “crap” is profanity, that’s “inexcusable” — in other words, “If you disagree with me, YOU are the wrong one, because this is a black-and-white issue with a clear-cut right answer, and I’m right.”

Continue reading…

@rejects Your cheerfulness sickens me.

Mom’s idiot chihuahua is asleep and apparently having a nightmare. Surprised he doesn’t have more, considering he’s afraid of *everything*.

Hosting a film festival in hellish Las Vegas in June? What’s next, a festival in frozen Utah in January? Oh wait…. #cv09