Watching the Republican debate

...Yes, at 0800.

I don't believe it. McCain actually managed to turn abortion into a national security issue.

Ron Paul mentioned that Iraq was not a danger to the US when the US went in. Giuliani asked him, "What about 9/11?"

(I can give you nice links off whitehouse.gov where Dubya himself denies this connection.)

Obviously we back Ron Paul in this house, because he's the only candidate of either party who doesn't want to help himself to our wallets. But ye gods, these guys are idiots on parade this morning.

Nicknames for the Republican Candidates

I shall call the top three media-boosted candidates, Rotten Rudy, Pillsbury Doughboy and Plastic-Man.

Rotten Rudy comes courtesy of patgund.

The Representative from Lakeside, CA remains That Asshole Duncan Hunter, probably the longest nickname in my nickname warehouse.

A day at Disneyland!

Okay, actually in Tijuana, but because I spent an hour and a quarter in line waiting to be admitted back into the US, it felt like A Day At Disneyland.

First off, though, at Mass the priest mentioned that he was in the process of finishing up the last Harry Potter book. He's in his late 60s or early 70s. I thought that was awfully neat.

I got my Flonase first, then two aprons. This sounds like a strange purchase, but I always manage to give myself a bath when I wash the dishes because our sink is quite shallow, and I remember the aprons my paternal grandmother used to wear. For some reason, they threw them out after she died, much to my mother's disapproval, and the only one that survived has got a weird 1970s pattern on it and is very ugly. Mexican aprons are like sleeveless smocks that button at the back, with pockets, so now I have a couple.

I bought a couple of bottles of water to wait in line and pulled out my new copy of the Prose Edda. I was up to Thor and Loki going to the land of the giants before I got to the head of the line. I was also really hungry, but managed to resist the churros.

Home again, home again, and I think I'm going to go fetch us some burritos.

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Your NEW new favourite band:

TYR. They're from the Faroe Islands and thus probably all eight or nine feet tall. This song is in Faroese, which is the Old Norse language that the people of the island were forbidden to speak when they were under the thumb of Danish oppression.

Danish + oppression. That's a combination of words you don't see often.

So here, in all its Faroese Ren Faire glory is "Regin Smidur" which is a Hel of a drinking song:

Watch on YouTube