Liberal blathering...

Mine, actually.

North Korea...what is your problem? Do you really want to be reduced to a smoking hole in the ground? I mean, seriously. Mr Kim, you are..."Il". Nuclear testing by the weirdest little state is actually completely unacceptable. You hear me, Jungy? I'm not going to stand for it. There. That should take care of it.

I have a hard time telling whether or not N. Korea's approach to international relations is psychotic or brilliant. I think a little of both. "Yes," they say, "We will enter into multilateral negotiations regarding our nuclear program. WE HAVE A SQUAD OF GLORIOUS SUICIDE CANARIES POINTED AT YOUR ADULT DAYCARE CENTERS! " I mean, how are you supposed to deal with that? The problem is that they have resorted to brinkmanship far too many times in the past for us to take them seriously, which is why they declared the longstanding peninsular truce invalid. Yet, the weird little country persists.

Roland Burris is amazing--he is a man without a conscience. I greatly look forward to his demise in jail. Seriously. You know, I gave him the benefit of the doubt even though he was appointed by...certainly the dumbest criminal in history. Now I really feel betrayed. I wonder if he is going have "2010-2025, Mad Pete's Prison Bitch" put on his mausoleum?

And from The Chronicle of Higher Education, here's another reason not to trust the Canadians, who we have allowed to snuggle up to our northern border quite long enough, thanks very much.... Aw, hell, Canada. I can't stay mad at you, especially when you give me such glittering jewels of irony as "Canadian Think Tank Recalls Reports on Intellectual Property After Plagiarism Allegation." Canada Uber Alles!

Lastly, the other day I had my first...what I would call my first "big kid meeting," a planning session for the program for incoming freshmen that I am participating in this summer, and I have to say that I left the meeting knowing less than I did going into it. How did that happen? It's run by people who are less than organized; they really seem to be more worried about making students feel "welcome" than they are about students learning. They haven't given me a schedule that has the last day of classes on it. Also, even though I was contracted to teach the English class, they want me to participate in after-school activities with the kids0--weenie roasts and the like (that's on the schedule). I don't entirely understand it.

Oh, if I were a little less pseudonymous, I could share with you the worst pun I ever encountered, which came out of that meeting. It was a pun so violently bad that it ripped a grapefruit sized hole in my brain. It's enough to make you want to go on a multi-state killing spree. Starting with all of Alabama.

Speaking of which, I may be having a White Supremacist Poetry Slam coming up soon. I found a real stinker tonight!

HJ