8:30 p.m.

• Due to popular demand (Read: one person) asking for additional pics of the kids, here we go:

This one features JJ guarding the computer desk. Featured in this photo are a Godzilla cup holder from Taco Bell back in the 1990s when they tried to give Godzilla a make-over. Being how I am Godzilla > King Kong, I actually looked forward to the movie at the time until I actually watched it at the theater. Even though I didn't like what they did with my favorite lizard, I'm not going to badmouth it as much as some other people do. They tried something different. It flopped. I moved on. Also featured is some pre-paid cell phone that I haven't re-added minutes to in several years and has been disconnected. Why I got this as a birthday gift is beyond me. I don't get any calls on the land-line; why in the hell would I want to remember another phone number? Sorry, but I'm not paying $20 every three months for minutes just so I can call Mrs. kkk at the store to let her know her garlic-flavored pita shells are out of stock and to find out what other flavor she wants instead. Bitch, you'll get the plain flavor and like it.

Oh, and the sheets of paper above JJ on the shelf? Those are the score sheets I used for kkk Bowl IV. He's also plopped on a Madden '93 instruction manual for the Sega Genesis.

5:45 p.m.

• So I was watching Around the Horn today and the "Out of Bounds" segment featured a "serious" discussion on Imus' comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. It was "serious" because no points were distributed. You know it's serious when that happens. So I waited with baited breath for Pardon the Interruption because I was sure there would be a segment talking about the same thing. I was right. Wilbon didn't disappoint with his "he's a bigot" talk (and I actually don't blame him on this one), but Kornhiser was a riot by defending him and saying that he used to appear on that radio show and how Imus brings in political figures like John McCain. Good thing Imus didn't say the sports media overhyped the Rutgers team because they wanted to see a team made up mostly of black players succeed, huh Tony?

2 p.m.

• Oh man, this story made for a fun ride home from work yesterday.

Noise complaints have been brewing in Naugatuck since two local business owners have asked drivers to voice their opinions by honking their horns.

 

You could call it a battle of biblical terms. Along one of Naugatuck's busiest streets, a sign of faith is generating more than prayers. In a plaza on Rubber Avenue, business owner Claudette Soden placed a sign in the parking lot that said, "Easter: Beep for Christ."

 

An owner of a shop that puts photos onto DVDs placed a sign in front of a parking lot, which is used by both businesses, that says, "Easter: Beep for Christ.

 

"People are beeping. It seems like they are for it, that's why they are beeping," said Soden.

 

After the horns started honking outside her neighbor, the No Regrets Tattoo Shop posted their own sign, "Honk Twice for the Devil." The two opposing views made headlines this holy week.

 

For zoning reasons, the town asked the two to take their signs down. The owner of the tattoo shop told News Channel 8 that his sign had nothing to do with good or evil. He says his customer come from all religious backgrounds and that Soden's sign was disturbing his business.

Better Half: “Did you hear that story of the signs that said ‘honk once for Jesus…’”

Me: “…and twice for Satan. Yeah. What about it? Guess how many times I would have honked?”

BH: “Twice.”

Me: “Yes, because I love Jesus twice as much as you do.”

BH: *Starts bitching about something that I can’t remember.*

Me: “What’s wrong with saying that you love Satan? Jesus said to love everyone.”

BH: “But Satan’s evil.”

Me: “So? Jesus said everyone. I think I just found a loophole in this whole Christianity thing.”

BH: “I hate you.”

Me. “But yet you married me. See, Jesus was right when he said you should love everyone.”

I’m just glad she didn’t counter with something like “'love' isn’t the same as 'marriage'” because then I would have had to concede the round.

1:45 p.m.

• I didn't bother reading the article, I just laughed at the headline.

Climate Report: Poor Will Suffer Most

Of course the Poor will suffer most. They're poor. We needed a report to make us aware of this? You know, with the amount of money spent to create this report, that loot could have went to the Poor. So I guess that the Poor have suffered the most from reading this Climate Report. Then again, they didn't actually read it because the Poor can't afford computers and Internet service.

12:15 p.m.

• Ah, nuts. I heard this story a while after it happened, so I'm sure the Billy Fudge-Packer jokes have already been spent.

CBS college basketball analyst Billy Packer said he wasn't being insensitive or homophobic when he made a comment while being interviewed last weekend from Atlanta on the "Charlie Rose Show,'' which airs on PBS.

 

At the end of the interview, Rose, who was in New York, asked his friend Packer whether he needed a runner for the Final Four.

 

Packer responded, "You always fag out on that one for me, you know. You always say, oh, yes, I'm going to be the runner, then you never show up."

 

"I said he fagged out on me and it had nothing to do with sexual connotation," Packer said Wednesday. "Charlie is a big Dukie, and he has been talking a number of years about coming to the Final Four to be a runner."

 

Dictionary.com defines "fag out" as meaning "to tire or weary by labor; exhaust."

 

Which is what Packer, 67, said he meant.

 

"I can assure you I will use that phrase again and I won't think twice about it," he said.

If you PC homos want to get offended at someone, get offended at the dictionary. This reminds me of the great niggardly escapade that happened a while ago.

On January 15, 1999, David Howard, a white aide to Anthony A. Williams, the black mayor of Washington, D.C., United States, used the word in reference to a budget. This apparently upset one of his black colleagues (identified by Howard as Marshall Brown), who incorrectly interpreted it as a racial slur and lodged a complaint. As a result, on January 25 Howard tendered his resignation, and Williams accepted it.

Why don't you bitches picket outside of Big Dictionary offices and demand to have these mean words stricken from the English language? Wait a second, I didn't know about this part. Continuing the Wikipedia entry from above.

However, after pressure from the gay community (of which Howard was a member) and black leaders, an internal review into the matter was brought about, and the mayor offered Howard the chance to return to his position as Office of the Public Advocate on February 4. Howard refused but accepted another position with the mayor instead, insisting that he did not feel victimized by the incident. On the contrary, Howard felt that he had learned from the situation. "I used to think it would be great if we could all be colorblind. That's naive, especially for a white person, because a white person can't afford to be colorblind. They don't have to think about race every day. An African American does."

So in this game of "Who is Offended More?" we have Gays vs. Blacks: the unstoppable force vs. the immovable object, the Beast of the East vs. the Best of the West. So I guess it's safe to say that Howard didn't fag out over the niggardly fiasco. Well, he may have fagged out later that night, but that's neither here nor there. And after all he went through I at least hope he got to be that evening's starting pitcher, unless he thinks it's better to receive than give.