This is an old quote, but, as are most things that are very old, it's new to me.

Asked about those goofy comparisons to God and Jesus Christ, Damon replied, ''It's incredible. . . . What more can you ask for? Even being mentioned in the same sentence as Jesus or God. . . . I mean, those guys are awesome."

Totally awesome. Jesus had a .555 on-base average during the 1997 American League Championship Series.

And God would have been in the Hall of Fame six thousand years ago, were it not for these trumped-up charges about Him betting on the outcome of the Job contest.

Yeah.

Fairness... requires I note he concluded that quote with the statement "I'm just a knucklehead," but I think that's implicit in the first part of the quote.

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Batman's boat.

Fast boats have their appeal, but hard pounding and massive fuel consumption would leave them useless as practical maritime surface transport - nor much fun for our landlubber friends. Maritime Flight Dynamics' solution is to fly just above the wave crests, on proprietary shock dampened 'foils'. Literally, a boat with a full-functioning suspension system, similar in capability to Baja desert racers. A lifting-body airfoil design carries the craft above the sea surface in ground effect, radically reducing hydrodynamic drag. This requires less power and uses a fraction of the fuel consumption.

Many of the new breed of high-performance boats can travel at triple-digit speeds over the water. Our objective is to make this kind of speed practical, safe, comfortable and efficient - ultimately to make maritime transport a viable alternative to our crowded skies and highways. Imagine: direct travel, city centre to city centre, directly from one waterfront downtown to another; faster than the taxi ride to and from your local airport.

There are military applications, too, they claim. To wit: If you're in the military, and you're driving one of these, you're definitely getting laid.

Thanks to OgreGunner.

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Their trademark? Always leaving behind a dookie on furniture after a break-in.

Actually, this isn't uncommon. A book called What Cops Know discussed "catburglars," and they weren't using "catburglar" to mean the suave Cary Grant type. "Catburglar" had become cop-slang for burglars wo don't just steal, but have some compulsion to leave nasty things at the scene of the crime. And that seemed to be a pretty common thing.

Thanks to RayF.

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To replace the retiring Wayne Allard.

Another prominent Republican, anti-immigration firebrand Rep. Tom Tancredo, also has been mentioned as a possible candidate. So have Attorney General John Suthers, who said through a spokeswoman it was premature to make a decision about 2008, and John Elway, the former Denver Broncos quarterback.

"Mentioned" only, alas.

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Please stop spamming me with stupid posts from your blogs or the idiot blogs you like.

You're not exercising me. You're only exercising Google's "filter to delete" feature. You're costing this company -- credo: "Don't be evil" -- vital capital which they could be using to create better functionality for moronic teenagers uploading "Fergilicious" lipsyncs to YouTube.

Thank you for understanding.

Suck the barbed cock of Satan,

Ace

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Kind of tracks our arguments, except when they make them, they sound less... what's the word? stupid.

Also a brief bit about Idiocracy, too. I wasn't the only one to notice, it seems, that the film's politics are less liberal so much as they're Nazi. (Again, no, I don't really think Judge is a Nazi; it's mostly just a comedic premise. To the extent one takes it seriously as politics, though, the politics is "sterilize the untermenschen.")

Then again, maybe that is an acceptable position on the left these days.

Thanks to JackStraw for pointing this out, though I was already reading it.

I'm having a hard time blogging today.

And it's hard when Allah is on fire. Hard to beat headlines like Messiah reappears, forms presidential exploratory committee (about Barack Obama's utterly-unexpected decision to "explore" whether or not he will "mull" a possible "interest" in being the second black President).

How do you beat that? You don't, that's how.

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The 9th Circuit (shocker) reversed charges on one count and so Ahmad Ressam needs to be resentenced. He was convicted of his role in the Millenium Bombing plot about which Sandy Berger destroyed evidence in order to keep it from the 9/11 Commission.

Wait... Milennium Bombing...? Wasn't that on Clinton's watch?

Oh yeah. Forget that whole "incompetence" thing -- it just doesn't apply. Except to the extent Bush was a miserable failure in arguing against Ressam's appeals.

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Looking at it is free, but taking a picture of it requires a negotiation with a statue honoring the world's pimps.

The statue is scheduled to be blown up by jihadis later this year.

From Hubs & Spokes, which has a lot of good stuff the past week. Just keep scrolling.

One piece calls Bush "Lincolnesque" for pushing for the surge, which may be premature -- let's see if he really carries out the plan of putting five combat brigades into Iraq, or attempts a compromise of three, with two held "in reserve," as Allah noted he might do.

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I think this is just the actual script of Spock's Brain, verbatim, just played for laughs. But I'm not sure.

A commenter says The Enterprise Incident is on tonight, on some channel (he didn't say), which I think is the episode where the Voyager Deep Space Nine crew goes back in time to The Trouble With Tribbles episode of the original series. Never seen it myself, always wanted to. Sorta.

It's on... TVLand at 1am Eastern tonight, or maybe 1:10. Sometime. TVLand doesn't believe in firm schedules, apparently.

The episode apparently sorta explains why "New Klingons" look completely different than "Old Klingons."

An example of retconning. That's a wikipedia entry real geeks can get lost in for hours. I read the whole thing and a lot of the links, and I don't even watch most of those shows.

Wrong: The explanation was given elsewhere.

Even Wronger: Cyberluddite tells me I'm not even close. It's "Tribbles and Tribulations" that digitally inserts the new Trekkers into the Tribble episode; this one, The Enterprise Incident, is a retcon about the stealing of the infamous Cloaking Device. (And I guess they retcon an answer to the old question-- if Kirk stole the Cloaking Device so long ago, why doesn't the Federation have it? Apparently the answer is they have it, but they have agreed to never use it by treaty.)

This whole post has so many bloopers and contuinity errors it needs a serious retcon itself. Maybe a full reboot. Crisis on Infinite Ace Errors.

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WickedPinto brought this up. The good ones are grand, the bad ones are awful, filled with nonstop praise of minor actors and what a genius the DP is for chosing a 14 inch lens to shoot this "gorgeous" shot.

I love a good DVD commentary. A lot of times I like them better than the movie, even if I liked the movie.

Here are my three favorites:

The Thing. Carpenter and Russell are funny and actually informative here, in between the loud drags as Carpenter chain-smokes.

Army of Darkness. Raimi and Campbell bust each other's balls a lot here. Campbell knocks Raimi's direction; Raimi knocks Campbell's acting. For example, Campbell makes fun of Raimi for resorting to the hack trick of just shaking the camera to create a sense of frenzy; Raimi calmly replies, "I was using the camera to get an effect that I couldn't get out of the performance."

This commentary is especially interesting because they discuss, seriously, what went wrong in the movie. They make the observation (which I'd missed myself, even though I'm a fan) that they "lost the character" of Ash in the whole back-end of the film, when the plot required he suddenly become a hero rather than the cowardly, bullying, braggart jackass he really was. You hardly ever hear these commentaries diss their own movies, and yet here these guys are casually pointing out where they'd gone badly wrong, just talking about it as if they were alone, rather than being recorded for thousands to hear.

Old School. Hilarious. Sure, Will Ferrell is funny. But the real laughs come from Luke Wilson, who explains -- deadpan -- that he considers his eyes to be individual actors. One, the droopier lidded eye, is called "Shorty," the more leading-man eye is "Kevin." Throughout the commentary, the guys riff on how "Kevin" is really delivering a great performance in this scene, or how "Shorty" is just phoning it in here. It's a goofy, weird, pot-induced riff that just doesn't get old, at least not for me.

Another interesting commentary is that for Anchorman, in which Ferrell and McKay do not, as far as I know, comment upon the film a single time, except to note how they are entirely ignoring the movie in the commentary.

They just mostly talk about balls.

In the most disappointing category-- Joss Whedon's commentary for Serenity, which is only for those who have a hard-on about lenses and overcranked film. Only a few bits of interesting information are offered by a guy who obviously is pretty smart and cagey about storytelling (like he considers Mal's shooting of three unarmed men to be, in a way, a rebuttal to the Greedo-Shoots-First "special edition" of Star Wars). Some interest in his noting that several true improvements to the film were suggested by the usually-derided "studio suits." But otherwise -- snoozers.

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