There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

BTW… 10 points if you can name which movie I got the title of this post from!

Child On White House Tour Momentarily Seizes Control Of Nation

WASHINGTON, DC­—Myers spent much of his reign, which lasted from approximately 2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., spinning in circles in the president’s chair.

…but only because a) my daughter will be going to public school in West Bend AND b) I don’t pay property taxes in West Bend. Otherwise, I’d think twice.

The West Bend schools, as they sit, are pretty screwed up. There was poor planning for growth, the schools themselves are in disrepair, and some schools are in really bad shape maintenance-wise. This entire problem is due to mismanagement by the school board. Now they need to do something to get the schools back in the right direction.
That being said, the people who actually pay taxes in the West Bend school district also need to do something to get rid of those who were incompetent enough to let the schools get to where they are now. This all would have been an easier pill to swallow had they made their plans known in advance and made incremental improvements.

But again… I don’t live in or own property in the district.

So, I went to the ThisNovember5th.com website, per Nick, and I found the following video. It’s fun, albeit a little juvenile, but I was kind of upset by the terrible audio quality.

…the “Ron Paul Girl,” however, isn’t 1/2 bad to look at.

Great Moments In U.S. History

This morning I found out that presidential candidate, Ron Paul, is a Lambda Chi Alpha alumni. So… I’m switching teams from the Fred Thompson team to the Ron Paul team. Sorry… gotta keep it in the family.
Go Paul!

If you didn’t know, Stephen Colbert has decided to run for President, 2008.  He hopes to be listed on both the Democratic and Republican ballots.

Here is a link to a CNN.com article. 

The story is ho-hum, but the comments are funny. Some are by people who think that he is a nut-job and that the country needs to focus on getting :
1) on the right track
2) out of the war
3) a life…blah blah blah

Some people cannot take a break from politics for 2 seconds to laugh at the certain level of obsurdity politics entails.  Lighten up y’all.

When I was a kid, Snoopy and the Peanut Gang were my FAVORITE. Now that I’m a grown up (kinda), I really like the show, Scrubs. Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon this little mix up from the Scrubs 2003/2004 Christmas party. It’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, dubbed over by the Scrubs cast. Marvelous!

We went to the Dierks Bentley concert last night at the Bradley Center. The show opened with Jack Ingram. I had seen Ingram in concert before, and I have to say that I wasn’t necessarily impressed. He was better this time than he was a few months ago, but he still seemed like he was trying too hard on stage. His band was very, uhm, eclectic. We were quite sure that the steel guitar player was the roid’d up version of Froto (barefoot and everything), the drummer looked like a pock-marked version of Peter Greene (the bad guy from the movie, “The Mask.”), one guitar player was about 18 and wanted to be Mick Jagger, the other guitar player must have been 14, and while he could play the guitar like mad (he played Dierks’s right-handed guitar, left-handed at one point) he had legs that were skinnier than most women’s arms. Still, it wasn’t that bad, and my ears weren’t bleeding when he was done.

Dierks came on stage and rocked the house. He was a lot shorter than I thought he would be, but from all accounts, the ladies liked him. The guy had a ton of energy on stage and was running around like a ADD sufferer on crack. It was fun and not annoying, though, so that was good. He sang all of his hits and sang them well. The only downside to the concert was that an almost 12-year-old kid was near us holding up a cardboard sign that read, “This is my birthday present.” Dierks looked at him and said, “Happy Birthday.” But… the kid kept holding up the phucking sign. Then at another point, Dierks said to him, “I’ve seen that already.” But… the kid held up the phucking cardboard sign, still. I didn’t kill him because I was quite sure that Tracy would murder him first, and most judges would be more likely to let a good-looking single mom off than they would me.

Dierks got injured twice. The first time, he pulled a woman up on stage to dance with him… and she held on to his arm so tightly that she punctured his skin (he was bloody). The second time, he was running from one side of the stage to the other with his guitar, and he tripped on some chords (that was a pun, thank you). Seriously, though, he tripped on some wires and bit the dust. Most probably thought he was falling on the ground purposely to play his guitar, but when he got up, he explained to everybody that he did, indeed, trip.

The concert was pretty long, but it was worth it. The seats were excellent (as evidenced by the picture on the left). I forgot my camera, so I only got some crappy cellphone pictures. The good ones were blocked by the kid with the phucking cardboard sign. Anyway…

After the show, we stopped at Game Time (across the street from the BC) for a drink. While we were there, Jack Ingram’s guitar players showed up. They ended up hitting on two extremely homely women. One had a rotten tooth that we could see from the other side of the bar. It was disturbing, but still fun to watch.

All in all… a great night.

If you’ve see the original, you’ll understand.

I am pretty excited about this weekend.

Tonight: In a few hours, Tracy and I are going to catch dinner and then go see Dierks Bentley live at the Bradley Center. We have tickets in “The Pit,” which is the chair-less section right in front of the stage. It has been a long time since I have been to a concert where you were allowed to stand without the person behind you having a conniption.

Tomorrow: nothing in particular (it’s been ages since I’ve had nothing to do)

Sunday: nothing in particular (it’s been even longer since I’ve had nothing in particular to do two days in a row)

I sincerely hope that you enjoy your weekend, too!!!

Yes… yes.. Y-E-S. This is too funny! Here is the Badgers head coach, Bo Ryan, doing the Soulja Boy (Soldier Boy for those of you who speak American) dance.

I don’t normally pimp work stuff on my personal website… mostly because, well, it’s my personal website… but we’ve got a cool new feature at the radio station, and I’m excited to let everybody to know about it.

You can now text message your requests and take part in text-to-win contests at 92.5 WBWI!  In order to do so, though, you have to sign up on the website. Go to WBWIFM.com and follow the instructions. Then, anytime you want to request a song, simply text your request to this number: 49330.

So… go sign up right now!!!! DO IT!

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

~Anonymous

The last time that I was in Breckenridge, CO, I purchased a sampler pack of Breckenridge Brewery’s different kinds of beer. I was pretty surprised, today, when I walked into John’s Liquor in West Bend and found a bunch of different kinds of Breck. There were some that I had tried already, but then I saw “Vanilla Porter,” and I had to try it.

My initial thought on the beer: it tastes too much like Vanilla Coke. Actually, the vanilla tastes so artificial that it’s hard to drink. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had worse, but this isn’t the best beer that I’ve ever tasted. If it were more “beery” with less “vanilla,” it would be a good beer. Unfortunately, they overdid it.

/10 Bottles of beer on the wall.

The NASCAR coach… from The Onion:

NASCAR Coach Reveals Winning Strategy: ‘Drive Fast’

Hahaha… this is just a funny quote (in response to Tracy’s).

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Apple’s Leopard Operating System debuts tomorrow night at 6pm at your local Apple Store! It’s going to be friggin’ sweet! AND… it’s already getting some cool reviews. The Wall Street Journal’s headline kinda sums it up: Leopard: Smarter, Faster than Vista. Now that is going to raise some eyebrows.

Here’s a video from the WSJ on Leopard:

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.

~Diogenes

Do you want to participate in a “Fantasy” League, but don’t have time to follow every football or baseball game that is played? Try Fantasy Television.

Big Shot TV is a new website that sets you up as the head of your own television network. You get a budget, buy shows and earn points. Best of all, it’s all calculated automatically, so you really don’t have any work to do. Better yet, pick shows with all of the loud-mouthed troublemakers who grace to covers of tabloid magazines and gain extra points!

You can visit the site (and my profile, Chopper TV).

For the record, if there was a “zero-tolerance policy” on drawing guns back when I was in school, I definitely would have been expelled.

From Local6.com:

A second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a school suspension.

Kyle Walker, 7, was suspended for violating Dennis Township Primary School’s zero-tolerance policy on guns, the boy’s mother, Shirley McDevitt, told The Press of Atlantic City.

Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child’s parents complained about it to school officials, McDevitt said. Her son told her the drawing was of a water gun, she said. A photocopy of the picture provided by McDevitt showed two stick figures with one pointing a crude-looking gun at the other, the newspaper said.

I used to draw little Rambo guys with guns all the time. See, some people might not realize this, but that’s what boys do. It doesn’t mean that they’re going to haul off and kill a bus load of kids, it just means that they are boys, and they have testosterone, and that’s how boys roll.

Mark my words, the emasculation of our male population by these new social rules will be the downfall of American society. We’re not allowed to compete, we’re not allowed to be hunt, we’re not allowed to get angry with anybody, and pretty soon it’s going to turn America into “The Land of the Free, The Home of the Puss.”

I pray we’re not there already.

I’ve done a lot of reading on masculine/feminine polarity, and I’m convinced that this whole American femininity movement is the underlying cause of most divorces in America. Men and women are men and women for a reason. Men are becoming more feminine, and women more masculine to even out the balance. It creates a doldrum which leads women to believe that they don’t need men to thrive, and men to become repulsed by their women.

With divorce comes more boys and girls being raised solely by their mommas. That, in turn, leads to more feminine boys and more girls who are reinforced with the notion that they can raise kids without the need of a father. The cycle amplifies.

I’m not sure what the solution is, but I’m guessing that suspending a 7-year-old boy for drawing a stick figure with a gun is not going to help grow his masculinity.