history of the world

Why, yes, a girl can make it from Mack’s couch to my couch in 27 minutes, just to liveblog True Blood, in case you need to know for next season.

Oh, Rene, why do you have to be so [bleep]ing creepy now after a whole season of sweetness?  Oh, and so creepy are you!

Is Tara naked?  Oh, okay, no.

My all-time, favoritest commercial ever in the history of the world is the FedEx golden package TV spot from several Christmases ago. I just realized — it must be on YouTube. The year they used this one, I cried every. single. time. I saw it. And as most of you already know, I am NOT a sap. I’m like, anti-sap.

Kevin Baker of Smallest Minority blog emailed today to point out this observation:

Not at all:

Seem like companies are setting major records. Exxon-Mobile racks up the biggest profit level ever by any company (and it’s considered less than expected by stockholders- holy crap!) in the history of the world ($11.68billion smackers) and GM hits its biggest low ever ($15.5 billion). Makes you look at Chevron, with less than $6 billion this past quarter, as a peon.

Photos by Steve Cross

Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.

For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.

And the media doesn't help with the angst:

At the beginning of the 21st century, the typical American suburb is just about the safest place that has ever existed in the history of the world - yet it's full of terrified people.