Some People Like To Go To CPAC, But Other People Like Us We Gotta Work

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— by Wombat-socho


Even before it became public knowledge that Pam Geller and Robert Spencer had pointedly not been invited to CPAC, I had been leaning hard in the direction of not going this year due to the requirements of work. To be more specific, I am busy in the tax mines this time of year and can ill afford to miss eighteen hours of going mano a mano with the rapacious U.S. Tax Code. Still, I did make it briefly to BlogBash and tonight’s Viral Read party, even if I was really too ragged out to properly appreciate either of them. Well, there’s always next year, and in the meantime I have been reliably assured that under the New Dispensation my sequestered gruel ration will be restored and the inhumane practice of watering the grog ration will cease. I, for one, welcome our new Viral Read masters.


So…anyone read anything decent lately? Talk among yourselves, and keep it civil.


33 comments

  1. Nice! Can you tell us stooges out here in the hinterlands what statute makes us liable for an “income” tax on our private sector earnings?

  2. -Ah, Sweet Jane by Lou Reed – one of the great rock and roll classics. One of the great riffs.

    -I’m currently reading Gerhart Niemeyer’s Aftersite And Foresight. Has anyone else read this or any of his other works? And what do you think?

  3. He considered the 20th Century terrible, although I think it best described as “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” But he is a giant of the conservative movement. If WFB thought you were smart…that is pretty darn good praise.

  7. I’m reading “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch, an Oxford Physics Prof. Not impressed after 4 chapters. Probably why I found it in a remainder bin.

    QM is a Professional Engineer to give you something of an idea where I’m coming from.

  9. I just finished reading “Deception Point” by Dan Brown. Thriller involving Nasa, White House, Security agencies and the US Politics. It sucked!

    Currently, I’m reading Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

  10. Your annual labors in the Tax Mines are appreciated. The unwatered gruel will be like a bonus.

  11. I have been watching some good old classics these days. Just yesterday, I (re)watched “The Night of the Hunter“(1955). A must see if anyone hasn’t already! Robert Mitchum, what a perfect villain! I don’t think there ever was a better negative character in film history! Set during the depression era, it delves on the darker side of faith but eventually reinforces the good with its hopeful narrative about the innocence and endurance of young children.

    Speaking of television series, I’m eagerly awaiting Sherlock (season 3) and Game of Thrones (season 3).

  16. Just finished reading ‘Sackett’ by L’Amour to the boys, now reading ‘Black’ by Ted Dekker to them (along with the US Constitution which is the first time for me to read it as well).

    ‘Bill and Dave’ by Michael S. Malone is somewhere around here. Its a bio/business book on Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Malone wrote another very good book, and he doesn’t have a lot of respect for Fiorini. Both reasons to appreciate his pov.

  21. I’m especially fond of the live version, with Sam Ronson’s dad throwing down the awesome guitar parts. As you can tell.

  23. I would have loved to go…but I”ve been out of work for 5 weeks (naked plea to hit my blog’s tip jar, just found a job, start tomorrow, but that’s still 2 more weeks w/o income)…and I just don’t have the money to pay for it…despite living 40 miles away. It just wasn’t in the cards. I could get my motorcycle fixed (since my 20 y/o truck collapsed and died of old age) or go to CPAC…

  25. Au contraire, CPAC is not an acceptable excuse for missing work. Especially during tax season.

  28. Most people don’t get that grits are not a food. In the Civil War, Confederate troops were issued a pouch of grits as an abrasive for scouring gunpowder residue out of rifled muskets.

    After the battle of Gettysburg, when the Union finally started taking prisoners in significant numbers, they began finding these pouches in the Confederates’ kit.

    “What’s this for?” they’d ask.

    “Eat it, Yankee!”

    “You first…” and a meal was born…

  31. Not acceptable in Minnesota, and judging from our customers, it’s about as flexible and helpful as a 2×4.

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