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LOL awesome. It’s a shame they couldn’t work a FAIL into this and achieve the elusive trifecta.

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So, my birthday has always fallen somewhere in the vicinity of Easter, but I didn’t recall it ever actually landing on Easter. Curious, I looked it up, and it seems that while it hasn’t yet happened in my lifetime, I’ll see it twice in 2031 and 2036, at the ripe ages of 59 and 64, if I live that long.

I *will* be pissed if I don’t get both presents AND a basket of candy those days.

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I’m afraid if I don’t post something, then the gears of this software might rust or atrophy or something. So I’ll tell ya that I got a couple of Philip Glass discs for Christmas, including his latest opera Waiting for the Barbarians.

Which is excellent, except it’s funny because for the last month or so I’ve been listening the hell out of Artificial Soldier, the latest album by long time favorites Front Line Assembly, which has a fantastic track called Future Fail, with a chorus that chants “Hail… the barbarians / … / Greet… the barbarians / … “.

So naturally my weird little brain is trying to mash the two together. It really doesn’t work very well.

I can prove it! Using nothing but the most advanced forms of wingnut logic.

See, Ronald Reagan was a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater was also once a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater once employed a speechwriter by the name of Karl Hess. Karl Hess said of Emma Goldman:

Hess said that upon reading the works of Emma Goldman he discovered that anarchists believed everything he had hoped the Republican Party would represent, and that Goldman was the source for the best and most essential theories of Ayn Rand without any of the “crazy solipsism that Rand was so fond of.”

Emma Goldman of course was a domestic terrorist, and would one day be an inspiration to feminists who would ally with the Nashville Peace and Justice Center. And apparently The Nashville Peace and Justice Center once shared a landlord with the US Communist Party.

QED, Ronald Reagan was a Communist.

…is that the frequent making of fists is an incredibly effective way to remember to keep your fingernails trimmed.

Yeah, that’s how little I have to talk about right now. Well, there are things, but all the good thoughts are sloshing around in the muddiest depths of my brain, clearly in no shape to go out in public.

This is pretty cool. Mother Jones told us about The Typealyzer, which probes your blog and computes your Myers-Briggs type based on content:

INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.

They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.

UPDATE: I took this quickie online quiz which calls me an INTJ. I’m sure it’s not the most scientific quiz ever, but this does feel more accurate:

While the content of the post is completely unrelated, the Onion somehow managed to perfectly capture the essence of the woes of Tennessee Democrats with just a title:

Phil’s Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn’t Go To Phil’s Parties

OK, I’ve been googling to try and find any article probing into the question of Rahm Emanuel’s intelligence, one hundred percent for the purpose of making a post with this title. I found a lot of one-liners about him being a smart guy, but nothing pointed on the subject like what I was looking for.

Fuck it, I’m using it anyway.

Rex led us to this xkcd comic:

Yep, that’s about right.

Actually 2012 doesn’t seem like much of a mystery to me. Barring some unforseen tragedy — which could include anything from the unthinkable, to Obama just really fucking things up — I think we’ll see an incumbent Obama handily defeating either Huckabee or Romney. The Republicans like to give people their turn, especially when they can sacrifice one they don’t really like to a windmill tilt.

But 2016? Most of the current players, including Biden, will likely be considered too old. I’m going to throw this out, mostly pulled out of my ass — Brian Schweitzer vs Grover Norquist.