Which is the MOST Distressing?
I’m going to be gone for a few days (Vegas, baby), so no new posts until Sunday. In the meantime, however, I will let you ponder a series of highly distressing news items.
1. The list of cases to be considered by the Supreme Court this term is out. Let’s see, what do we have? Campaign finance. Tax stuff. Evidence stuff. Oh, and the ever-pressing case of ANNA NICOLE SMITH vs. OLD DUDE’S MONEY. Yes. Anna Nicole Smith is going to the Supreme Court. Yes, THAT Anna Nicole Smith – with the slurred speech and the general bizarro-world tendencies. And yes, THAT Supreme Court – with all of the black robes and such. Sometimes the world truly is a UPN sitcom.
2. Ben Affleck is apparently seriously considering a run for the Senate. Yes, THAT Ben Affleck -- with all of the bloat and the occasional bad facial hair and the predilection for women named “Jennifer.” And yes, THAT Senate – with all of the judicial confirmations and grandstanding and occasionally amusing filibustering.
3. Scientists have for the first time photographed a live giant squid. It was/is 25 feet long and left behind a tentacle that was 6 meters long. Just ponder that for a moment. 25 feet is more than four of you stacked end to end. That is a whole lot of squid and is enough to make me never want to go in the ocean again.
1. The list of cases to be considered by the Supreme Court this term is out. Let’s see, what do we have? Campaign finance. Tax stuff. Evidence stuff. Oh, and the ever-pressing case of ANNA NICOLE SMITH vs. OLD DUDE’S MONEY. Yes. Anna Nicole Smith is going to the Supreme Court. Yes, THAT Anna Nicole Smith – with the slurred speech and the general bizarro-world tendencies. And yes, THAT Supreme Court – with all of the black robes and such. Sometimes the world truly is a UPN sitcom.
2. Ben Affleck is apparently seriously considering a run for the Senate. Yes, THAT Ben Affleck -- with all of the bloat and the occasional bad facial hair and the predilection for women named “Jennifer.” And yes, THAT Senate – with all of the judicial confirmations and grandstanding and occasionally amusing filibustering.
3. Scientists have for the first time photographed a live giant squid. It was/is 25 feet long and left behind a tentacle that was 6 meters long. Just ponder that for a moment. 25 feet is more than four of you stacked end to end. That is a whole lot of squid and is enough to make me never want to go in the ocean again.
posted by OleNelson at 10:25 AM
3 Comments:
I love the idea of there being giant squids, but I'm always disappointed when they turn out to be smaller than the REALLY GIANT SQUID my imagination has imagined - like a mountain of pink flesh and tentacles slowly creeping through the sea, surfacing once in a while to snack on entire Hawaiian islands. Conditioned by science fiction and comic books at a young age, I suppose.
You are unfair to Senator-(to be)elect Affleck. He's a great American; after all, he helped write the only decent Robin Williams role since Popeye
I'm generally disappointed by giant jellyfish. Like that man-o-war is really huge, right? But it's really skinny. Just like a big long string. Much less impressive than if it were 30 ft long with the proportions of a regular old jellyfish.
Well I look forward to watching Anna Nicole Smith and Ben Affleck on C-Span.
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