tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62271182011-11-27T19:28:04.887-05:00Oh, For God's Sake!Come for the wisecracks, stay for the endorphin buzz!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.comBlogger4381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-14045691494249416962011-06-22T11:54:00.002-04:002011-06-22T11:58:24.396-04:00I may or may not like your Facebook statusPlease be advised that my failure to click “Like” regarding your Facebook status in no way implies that I do or do not like your status. Further, please note that no technology provided by Facebook now or in the future shall be deemed to exclusively communicate my emotional approval or disapproval of your status, photo, video, comment, link, event, game Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-74104636879951835312011-06-22T11:53:00.001-04:002011-06-22T11:53:42.418-04:00Made ya look!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-29220050068881212122011-05-31T14:11:00.002-04:002011-05-31T14:14:41.034-04:00Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59952797432719769042011-02-28T10:34:00.001-05:002011-02-28T10:42:40.612-05:00Winking at the butterflyThey say that a butterfly can flutterits wings in Africa and affect the weatherin North America. Or that a ball rolling down ahill a billion times would neverfollow the same path. Chaos theorythey call it. Sensitive dependenceon initial conditions.Who am I to argue? If one of my ancestorshad stayed ahammock that one dayinstead of wandering the creekbed andstubbing his toe Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-36915953969806084902011-01-18T13:16:00.009-05:002011-01-19T16:53:35.819-05:00ProduceHow to play More theme parks coming to Kentucky 2010 LEO Quiz The Christmas Panic Hotline A Wikipedia Christmas Open-source chocolate Sit back, relax and enjoy your flight Keep laughter alive Playing possum I’m sorry for causing this recession Mandatory fun LEO Writer’s Choice 2010 Reduce your stress with these handy tips Lawn Time Gone A meditation on meditation I don'tJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-84794541634700940882010-04-10T13:33:00.004-04:002010-05-09T08:45:15.266-04:00Announcing "Summary of My Discontent" - The BookBuy it today and receive a free photo of my grandfather holding a pheasant!Summary of My Discontent -Constructive Criticism for Discerning AmericansBy Jim WelpThe Collected LEO columns, the LEO quizzes and more.With an introduction by Stephen George.Now available at Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville and online here.Paperback156 pagesPansy Press (Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-54745191835286237622010-03-31T15:59:00.001-04:002010-03-31T16:02:29.555-04:00Hell is realLucky in lunacyTea party patriots: the all-jokes editionThe people’s historyTefillin the friendly skiesHelpful hints for modern livingA Christmas miracleThe Metrosexual MeterWar is crackCDC bulletin: Swine Flu and YouBicycle commuter’s survival guideLive long and prosperTonight on CBS: rich man eats bugHiding the oppositionReaders respond: music for LauraEssential albums for LauraBeerJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-28470607472342329622009-06-08T13:52:00.006-04:002009-06-08T14:03:44.665-04:00 Casualties of technologyViral MediaThe war on stupidQ/A with Accordion Virtuoso Todd Hildreth (PDF)A stitch in timeAttention angry mob: Focus!Is that a gun in your pocket? Next up: the sacrifice speechGoing post-postalPresent traumatic stressA dog's lifeHomegrown's all right with meJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-89974116107823778532009-01-02T12:08:00.002-05:002009-01-02T12:14:56.366-05:00Recent workA quiz we can believe inShock and Ah! (pdf)Bomb Calorimeters, Not People (pdf)A Christmas FableWii Fit diaryOutsourcing healthcareNaming the puppyAmerica: New and ImprovedCount your blessingsBlackout with your crack out!Battle of the presidential sitcomsAdventure Capital (pdf)Where is Bobby B? (pdf)Killing timeSticker shockFalls Fountain FlashbackMurketing MitchAutoReplyJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59484828125154585542008-07-08T17:09:00.001-04:002008-07-09T10:11:42.603-04:00The Louisville Loop: lazy Susan of diversityLouisville Loop photosOregoing GreenBuying a legacyTurn off, tune outJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-40803623844267135292008-05-01T11:13:00.000-04:002008-05-01T11:18:47.882-04:00Some shite for yezSOD - Derby 2.0Absinthe makes the heart go yonder"True meaning of Derby" in LEO's Derby issue. (I also contributed to the 1875 fake LEO cover, but I don't think it's online.)What a Week, April 30+ 3Kentucky made news in a national ranking that didn't involve obesity, smoking or basketball! In a study by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Kentucky scored among the Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-74913915771795997032008-04-18T15:17:00.000-04:002008-04-18T15:35:06.986-04:00Recent morselsMary Welp's Crab and Mushroom SoupMary reviews Life Class by Pat Barker and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.Spring Bellarmine Magazine (PDF)Summary of My DiscontentA Cry for SecessionWhat a Week, 4/16-20Fallout from the new state budget began settling on the Kentucky dystopia like a Harry Moberly White-Castle fart in a crowded movie theater. Public universities announced 9% Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-35017486776792045652008-04-02T17:22:00.002-04:002008-04-02T17:25:02.813-04:00Summary of My DiscontentOCD is the new greenJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-68570662232474356022008-04-02T17:22:00.001-04:002008-04-02T17:22:50.801-04:00What a Week, 4/2-8Q: Why is the Kentucky General Assembly like playing mumbelty peg with Helen Keller? A: Because it feels so good when it stops. The current session ends this week, with lawmakers taking a break until mid-April when they return for the ceremonial toe-stabbing of the governor. With the current session winding down, the havoc-wreaking reached a fever pitch last week. The pro-cancerJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59898769127274615082008-04-02T17:19:00.000-04:002008-04-02T17:21:50.896-04:00What a Week, 3/26+4A House committee killed Senate Bill 112, which would have “protected” straight-on-straight marriage by prohibiting universities and public agencies from providing health insurance for employees’ domestic partners. In killing the bill, Representative David Watkins put the verbal smackdown on knuckle-dragging sponsor Vernie McGaha and Family Foundation Neanderthal David Edmunds Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-64636314221502570402008-03-19T15:25:00.000-04:002008-03-19T15:31:33.136-04:00BooksmartCheck out my brilliant sister's book reviews:"Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob" by Lee Seigel and "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks, here."The Good Soldier" by Ford Maddox Ford, here."Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron" and "Before I Die" by Jenny Downham, here.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-46927565924451062562008-03-19T15:23:00.000-04:002008-03-19T15:25:08.398-04:00Summary of My DiscontentThe superdelegate: democracy’s Simon CowellJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-65668070643416146082008-03-19T15:20:00.001-04:002008-03-19T15:23:12.716-04:00What a Week, 3/19+8The House approved its version of the budget, restoring many of the cuts Governor Beshear proposed. The new-math House version restores funding to universities, gives state workers and teachers a raise, includes funding for road construction, and avoids the most painful cuts in social services. The plan includes a 25-cent cigarette tax and a 6% sales tax on some services, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-25283020160410209872008-03-18T10:50:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:51:18.529-04:00What a Week, 3/12+ 5Governor Steve Beshear finally looked in a mirror, discovered he's not Ernie Fletcher and started making some sense. The Guv came out in support of Kentucky education reform, a 70-cent cigarette tax, and voting rights for reformed felons. Momentarily reFletcherizing, he strongly hinted the that casino gambling is dead in the water. In other butt news, a new survey (at Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-5477661908281926932008-03-18T10:41:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:49:43.220-04:00Louisville Magazine - End InsightGiving Us GasJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-26762240673337877112008-03-18T10:37:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:38:27.420-04:00Summary of My DiscontentCourting the imbecile voteJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-7894824491384851882008-03-18T10:35:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:36:18.898-04:00What a Week, 3/5 +5Because of a "competitive religious marketplace," nearly half of Americans have switched religions, according to a study by the Pew Forum. But the fastest growing "religion" is no religion - fully 16% of us (a record number for America) abstain. Protestantism, which could soon become a minority religion for the first time in American history, still comprises 66% of the Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-70392204121434071312008-03-18T10:34:00.001-04:002008-03-18T10:34:40.101-04:00What a Week, 2/27- 10Kentucky House lawmakers recommended building nine casinos, a compromise between Governor Beshear's 12-casino proposal and the Senate's recommendation that we fear gays. Senate Republicans meanwhile declared war on education with Senate Bill 1, which would eliminate Kentucky's nationally renowned CATS testing system. Hillbillies David Williams and Dan Kelly want to retain Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-9041205637294275632008-03-18T10:31:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:33:29.845-04:00Summary of My DiscontentSummary of y’all are crazyJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-54269617689414185342008-03-18T10:29:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:30:31.201-04:00What a Week, 2/20-2Governor Beshear unveiled his blackjack plans, proposing 12 Kentucky casinos - including one in Louisville - that could generate $600 million. The proposal faces stiff opposition in the Senate, which responded by passing a bill to ban health insurance for gay partners of state workers and one to require women to get an ultrasound before getting an abortion.-1The Transportation Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59384848500372385602008-03-18T10:27:00.000-04:002008-03-18T10:28:55.300-04:00What a Week, 2/13-3Despite a new AP/Ipsos poll showing that most Americans believe getting out of Iraq would be the best way to stimulate the economy (with 48% adding, "Duh!"), the Senate OKed the $168 billion "Buy-Shit-At-Target" anti-recession plan instead. Meanwhile, our ever-innovative corporate predators began unveiling their plans to keep you coming back to your favorite toxins: Yum Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-48210040438310575432008-02-12T11:47:00.001-05:002008-02-13T12:09:42.453-05:00Smartass w/ bass and saxI'll be reading at tomorrow night's "Jazz and the Spoken Word" event at The Jazz Factory: Event cancelled because of slippery iciness. Stay tuned for rescheduledment."Jazz and The Spoken Word returns with a FREE night of music and readings. Writers and poets from around the region read from their works. Bassist Brian Vinson and saxophonist Jacob Duncan provide the jazz Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-66469542016804903522008-02-12T10:59:00.000-05:002008-02-12T11:01:14.565-05:00McCain '08Like Hope,But DifferentJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-68519335935743068352008-02-12T10:50:00.000-05:002008-02-12T10:53:27.944-05:00Welp's Louisville, from LEO 2.6.2008At last, a president who doesn't resemble my uncleIt looks like we're finally going to elect a president who doesn't reflect my privileged, status and I am psyched! As a straight, white, middle-class male, doors have pretty much always swung right open for me. And I'm not going to lie to you, it's been sweet. I never have problems getting served in restaurants Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-18582748635978088952008-02-12T10:47:00.000-05:002008-02-12T10:48:07.471-05:00What a Week, 2/6- 2In yet another whiny speech about how broke the Commonwealth is, Governor C. Montgomery Beshear proposed an "austere" budget that'll put such a hurt on us that we'll be dying (some literally, others illiterately) to vote for casino gambling and toll bridges. To make up the current $580ish-million budget shortfall, higher education, roads, and social services will feel the most Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-29081465786198334592008-02-12T10:45:00.000-05:002008-02-12T10:46:44.945-05:00What a Week, 1/30- 25Times are turbulent. Last week, the stock market fluctuated more wildly than Mitt Romney's position on abortion and, in response, the fed took a knife to interest rates like an emo kid on prom night. Sphincters clenched across Possibility City as Louisville unemployment rose to 5.4%, Ford announced more buyouts, homeowners saw home prices plummeting, the state killed its Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-48853657923096250762008-02-12T09:57:00.000-05:002008-02-12T10:45:23.552-05:00What a Week, 1/23+5It's sweet to see the hometown on top in anything green and that's what happened when recyclers ECO-CELL listed Louisville #1 in the US in cell-phone recycling at North American zoos. The Louisville Zoo recycled 3051 cell phones in '07, earning kudos from green groups and gorillas.-8What do you do when your Representatives pass a bill that would save countless miners' lives? IfJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-3408034682050294842008-01-24T10:42:00.000-05:002008-01-24T10:53:57.858-05:00SchtuffWhat a Week 1/23Welp's Louisville: SKYHOOK meeting minutesGSO: Against the MachineGSO: Atlantic.com now freeWhat a Week 1/17Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-10102165393857071202008-01-11T12:25:00.000-05:002008-01-11T12:27:58.869-05:00Over at GSOFeed Your HeadJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-87530778951073984812008-01-11T12:21:00.000-05:002008-01-11T12:25:17.552-05:00WLSmoking ban reversal: This time it’s personalJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-92084578684754543102008-01-11T12:19:00.000-05:002008-01-11T12:20:40.651-05:00This week's What A Week-18 Thanks to years of Republican economic fuckedupedness on both the state and federal levels, the Commonwealth's budget is $434 million outta whack. Gamely avoiding the word "gaming," Governor Beshear announced sweeping budget cuts and hiring freezes in education, environmental protection, healthcare, transportation and economic development. Through a spokesman, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-25759131312383595612008-01-08T16:46:00.000-05:002008-01-08T17:10:45.940-05:00HiyaHey Friends, sorry I've been gone so long. I've been busier than a fundamentalist Christian family at a fossil museum but I hope to get back to the business at hand in the coming days. I'll also be blogging over at General Sense of Outrage. In the meantime, here's some archival stuff I haven't posted here:The Adderall-addled, fat-gram-countin’, Nicorette-chompin’ troop-supportin' 2007 LEO Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-2625249240575624742007-11-15T10:10:00.000-05:002007-11-15T10:12:43.553-05:00Welp's LouisvilleThe Scourge of SarcasmJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-3557388953700484992007-11-15T10:03:00.000-05:002007-11-15T10:10:05.596-05:00From last week's LEO:Maybe that’s why they’re called ‘pacifier’OK, class, today’s new vocabulary word is “phthalate.” Phthalate is not what the boss with the speech impediment asked her overworked employees to do. It is a chemical compound that conveniently turns hard plastic crap into soft plastic crap, so it can be shaped into a variety of handy items, such as shampoo bottles, car interiors, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-37355200995824251162007-11-15T09:53:00.000-05:002007-11-15T10:02:35.273-05:00From last week's LEO:The outsourcing GapPlanning to head out to The Summit to hit up Baby Gap for a pair of faux-shearling booties or a tartan aviator hat for the darling newborn in your life? Nah, me neither. But if we were planning such an adventure, it might be worth noting that Baby Gap has been caught using child slave labor — and we’re not talking about Internet rumors that Suri Cruise has Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-89782123796833067892007-11-02T12:46:00.000-04:002007-11-02T12:49:14.276-04:00Election day reminderVote Mom on Tuesday, November 6!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-62851059867920731562007-10-30T14:39:00.000-04:002007-10-30T14:42:31.625-04:00My new heroRobert Shields, Wordy Diarist, Dies at 89"In addition to 91 boxes crammed with 25 years of his life, Mr. Shields is survived by his wife, the former Grace Augusta Hotson..."Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-46462370368419272092007-10-26T14:05:00.000-04:002007-10-26T14:07:56.084-04:00From this week's LEO:Bottle effronteryHey, you — the hybrid-driving, fluorescent-bulb-using, Nobel-laureate-admiring, Whole-Foods-shopping environmentalist drinking from the Evian bottle. C’mere. Got a funny story for ya. Guess what’s one of the most earth-unfriendly things you can do. Yup: Drink bottled water.The bottled water industry is reeling from a nascent backlash as restaurants, schools Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-11334966511226741282007-10-26T14:03:00.000-04:002007-10-26T14:05:29.629-04:00From this week's LEO:Because you don’t know where this paper’s beenUnlike most of the seemingly terrifying stories TV news anchors shout, MRSA is a freak-out you might want to have. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It’s a type of staph infection that is resistant to common antibiotics, including methicillin, oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin. After playing in Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-38620447049423879472007-10-19T16:22:00.000-04:002007-10-19T16:25:12.299-04:00From this week's LEO:Free the WaterfrontJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-1565230577688221472007-10-18T09:07:00.000-04:002007-10-18T09:13:32.150-04:00Oster, why do you hate all living things?Dear Oster Corporation,Love my new toaster. I know I truly live in, as Voltaire showed, the best of all possible worlds when I enjoy a couple of poached eggs sprinkled with a dash of homemade habanero sauce atop two perfectly toasted slices of my neighbor's homemade sourdough bread. And it's a testament to the industrial revolution that I have not only theJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-25112966112900952622007-10-15T13:10:00.000-04:002007-10-15T13:13:13.594-04:00Extinction TimelineFinally, we know the exact dates of the demise of newspapers, lunch, buckteeth, and Rocky films.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-69270542185311833302007-10-15T09:56:00.000-04:002007-10-15T10:04:46.422-04:00Great Moments in White TrashIn anticipation of the Iron Quarter and City Center projects coming to downtown Louisville, White Castle HQ has decided to demolish its store at First and Market Streets. But fear not, you foodies who like your beef steamed, square, and partially pre-digested. In its place the company will build the chain's largest White Castle.The restaurant (if by "restaurant" you Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-8165574007630479422007-10-10T15:28:00.000-04:002007-10-10T15:33:27.234-04:00The rest of the wayThis morning, at 7:45 a.m., I reached the exact halfway point of my life. I know this because, on her way out the door, my daughter said this to me:"Peace out homeskillit, f'sheezie, yo."This seems like an impossible-to-miss signal that from now on I'm gradually going to devolve until I do not understand anything anybody says. This is good to know because now I know exactly howJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-4118319954419301492007-10-09T10:14:00.000-04:002007-10-10T15:36:09.373-04:00Just because your skull is crushed doesn't mean we don't want your liver.I'm all for helmet-wearing and organ-donating, but isn't this a little sardonic for a Kentucky transportation worker?"Not wearing helmet? Please sign your organ donor card."Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-13838803371207889952007-10-05T11:03:00.000-04:002007-10-05T11:05:36.233-04:00The WLIf 0>y x 611b, then WTF?Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-17542047929353176222007-10-04T12:47:00.000-04:002007-10-04T12:57:52.530-04:00Operation Power HouseI can't get this story about Sputnik out of my mind. I've read a lot of appalling shit this week, but this is the most appalling:The roots of the crisis went back to 1953, when Dwight D. Eisenhower swept into the White House on a platform of securing the country against communist threats. Under the stewardship of John Foster Dulles, his hawkish secretary of State, Eisenhower Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-8850512494589565202007-10-04T12:36:00.000-04:002007-10-04T12:40:26.864-04:00Genuine American HeroesEdith MacefieldBig offer for tiny home leaves woman unmovedDavid McCartyMan vs. MartJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-35602254632981519732007-10-03T10:43:00.000-04:002007-10-03T10:46:16.643-04:00He only comes out when I drink my ginIs it just me or are y'all a little moody lately, too? Maybe it's just my global warming anxiety disorder acting up, but I've been all Dr. Jimmy and Mr. Jim lately. These guys too:For you aficionados (Tsup, Ponge?), here's an awesome clip from 1973 – horrible audio but amazing video…Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59666020911854587342007-10-02T13:34:00.000-04:002007-10-02T13:48:54.270-04:00Ultimate QuestionsIf The Incredible Inman married The Buzz, and their union produced a delirious and disingenuous pro-"war on drugs" editorial like the one in today's CJ based on the outstanding Chris Kenning story about marijuana in Sunday's paper, would that baby's name be "The Incredible Buzz?"Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-48281247914714188132007-10-02T13:30:00.000-04:002007-10-02T13:34:20.688-04:00Goodbye salmon, guacamole, and Bulgarian hookers. Hello mosquitoes, poison ivy, and predator squid.The Center for American Progress lists the Top 100 Ways Global Warming will Change Your Life.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-9381353099471674982007-10-02T10:20:00.000-04:002007-10-02T10:21:27.027-04:00Ultimate QuestionsNow that we have Google, should The Incredible Inman consider a name change? "Incredible" seems like a stretch. Maybe he could go by "The Inman" or "The Guy with Google."Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-56035820867828819842007-10-02T09:57:00.000-04:002007-10-02T10:12:02.944-04:00 Happy Halloween!We had some special guests on the harvest table last weekend: punkins! These three fellers survived the attack of the squirrels and ants, which got some of their punkin brethren. Thanks to the drought, the squirrels have gone to town on our squash and punkins, scratching them open and sucking out the life-giving juju inside. Once penetrated, the vegetables become easy pickens forJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-66235099690040828382007-10-02T09:14:00.002-04:002007-10-02T09:21:00.984-04:00Ultimate QuestionsWhy does The Incredible Inman publish an email address? If his readers have email, they have Google. And if his readers have Google, they could learn the answers to their TV-trivia questions in .3 seconds instead of waiting for months for an answer to appear in the paper. Perhaps it's time for The Incredible Inman to move on to some tougher questions that aren't so Googlable, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-68812291091349890392007-10-02T09:14:00.001-04:002007-10-02T09:19:47.471-04:00From last week's City Strobe:Thank you sir, may I have another?Last Saturday, many local citizens gave up their cars for World Car-Free Day, which was sort of like burning a stick of Nag Champa in a Port-A-John on day 10 of the Derby Festival. A nice thought, but the stink is already entrenched. And it might seem tough to focus on the emissions coming from all our jammed traffic when the city’s Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-40072232664991263432007-10-02T09:14:00.000-04:002007-10-02T09:17:19.327-04:00From last week's City Strobe:Damn that traffic jamA new study shows Louisville ranks third among mid-sized cities with the worst traffic jams, costing local drivers an annual $395 million in gasoline and lost time they could have spent standing around the water cooler demanding more concrete and bridges.According to the Texas Transportation Institute study, the average Louisville driver wastes 42Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-59189637860635731752007-09-27T12:17:00.000-04:002007-09-27T12:23:13.582-04:00Not an Onion headline6 Army of Mary nuns in Hot Springs excommunicatedQuestions:Why does Mary need an army?Is she planning to liberate Judas?Do the nuns carry weapons?If so, do they keep them under their habits?When nuns get in hot springs, do the weapons under their habits rust?Were they actually excommunicated in the hot springs or were they allowed to get out first?Do religious people exist Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-89461148781740432772007-09-27T10:23:00.000-04:002007-09-27T15:19:55.389-04:00The principles speakIn a recent letter to LEO titled "Give a Damn," a reader responded to my column on gambling by suggesting I honor my principles and vote against Steve Beshear. To consider this option, I contacted my principles for a response. I caught up with them in the Douglass Loop Heine Bros, where we sipped café Americanos and enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion about politics. Here is a Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-83561928726743236512007-09-26T14:16:00.000-04:002007-09-26T15:07:08.438-04:00FundRace 2008What's more fun than following the 2008 presidential race? Well, mopping the kitchen floor, cleaning the terlits, listening to your neighbor bitch about the Cards, and wondering what the new archbishop thinks about Saddle Ridge's Naughty School Girl Night among other things, but here's something that's more fun than all of them: HuffPo's FundRace 2008. This little timewaster lets youJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-70565418410262068172007-09-25T17:03:00.000-04:002007-09-25T17:04:53.009-04:00This whole is quite fine goodAn entertaining reminder not to trust web translators:Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-6586182128983487102007-09-24T15:37:00.000-04:002007-09-24T16:01:14.888-04:00A smokin' list Thanks to Metro and the CJ, here's a handy list of joints defying the Louisville smoking ban. This list is convenient for all concerned. If you're a smoker, here's where you can go to smoke yourself to death in a comfortable bar, bingo-parlor, hotel, um... food-charity, or, yeah, drugstore setting. If you don't want to die via second-hand smoke, avoid these places (and Churchill Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-11437323615246138372007-09-24T10:00:00.000-04:002007-09-24T10:03:38.835-04:00He's just going to look at the picturesNow here's a terrifying mental image to get you in the mood for Halloween: Senator Jim Bunning browsing Alan Greenspan's new book while taking a dump. From James Carroll's "Notes From Washington" column:"Bunning has never been a fan of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. So now that Greenspan has a new book, 'The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-66936526037571200872007-09-21T15:42:00.000-04:002007-09-21T16:01:35.388-04:00Shazzam!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-23736207864403726472007-09-21T12:59:00.000-04:002007-09-21T13:04:26.732-04:00Attention sports fansMy hat's off to the mysterious parodyers over at The Spotted Bass. I especially love the idea of Pitino being verklempt over the upcoming schedule.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-24552378787078224302007-09-21T12:48:00.000-04:002007-09-21T12:58:48.754-04:00You're an American nowTime to start acting like one.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-24261151681896433462007-09-17T13:54:00.000-04:002007-09-17T13:56:48.717-04:00From last week's City Strobe:Locals attempt, fail to become coolLast week was marred by several embarrassing botched attempts at coolness by local citizens. Despite the fact that electronic gadgets are nature’s way of making it easy to quickly identify nerds, area dorks descended on the new Apple Store, in Oxmoor Mall, in a failed attempt to become cool.The store, which sells iPhones, iPods and Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-44647972036144794682007-09-17T13:50:00.000-04:002007-09-17T13:54:06.056-04:00From last week's City Strobe:Money = free speech — unless it’s someone else’sU.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell — who probably could use a hug… Anybody? Anybody? — became the talk of the town again last week after Insight Communications killed a political TV ad critical of him, and then promptly decided to unkill it, after the requisite outrage over censorship ensued and, uh, nobody could prove the ad wasJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-79517078232106018502007-09-11T14:48:00.000-04:002007-09-11T14:55:15.604-04:00A basilisk to the bosomLooking for a good historical smackdown but tired of the same old Newton vs. Leibniz? Have I got a book for you: "Rousseau's Dog," by David Edmonds and John Eidinow. Subtitled "Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment," "Rousseau's Dog" details the public throwdown between philosophers and lunatics Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.Rousseau was the brilliantJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-37496926507877698052007-09-07T11:09:00.000-04:002007-09-07T11:11:24.251-04:00It's Business TimeIt's Friday. Treat yourself to some ConchordsJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-6511096840121003352007-09-07T11:06:00.000-04:002007-09-07T11:08:28.555-04:00But other than that, Caesars was greatBaby needs a new governorJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-88645291278241512552007-09-04T13:12:00.000-04:002007-09-04T13:17:34.417-04:00Further evidence that mankind was a bad ideaThe caffeinated potato chip. You know, for those days when you just don't have the energy to be a fat, lazy slob. Still need further evidence? There's the Butt Buoy. God bless Merka.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-69559845606323823792007-08-31T10:33:00.000-04:002007-08-31T10:35:22.731-04:00From this week's LEO:When coming down is a good thingKentucky, which helped OxyContin earn the nickname “hillbilly heroin,” got the surprising news from the Drug Enforcement Administration last week that its national ranking in prescription-painkiller purchases has dropped to 43rd. While experts hailed the trend, the monkey isn’t exactly sliding off the commonwealth’s back: Purchases aren’t down;Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-80154665860426764312007-08-31T09:50:00.000-04:002007-08-31T10:32:53.505-04:00From this week's LEO:Kentucky seeks eye-replacement eyeDr. Ernie Fletcher took a well-deserved break from hating gambling last week to spend some time hating killing. And what better way to show revulsion for killing than by signing a death warrant? With a jaunty wink at his Hippocratic Oath to “never deliberately do harm to anyone,” Dr. Fletcher signed the death warrant for Ralph Steven Baze, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-29487544013110424622007-08-29T13:48:00.000-04:002007-08-29T13:49:08.581-04:00Anti-war protestThis is so sweet.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-39056731632363346922007-08-27T15:48:00.000-04:002007-08-27T15:54:17.465-04:00Prepare to believe.A new museum is coming!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-55377071304954790292007-08-24T11:41:00.000-04:002007-09-13T16:50:03.980-04:00"Smart" might be a stretchIs it just me or is the Smart Car's fuel mileage underwhelming? Yes, it's cool looking and yes, it goes 90 miles per hour and yes, if you lock your keys inside you can pick it up and put it in your pocket and walk home, but still: 40 mpg? WTF? My Jetta gets 30. How can that tiny Smart Car "fortwo" possibly get only 40? I mean, I am totally down with downsizing. And I Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-62018995979534840282007-08-24T11:00:00.000-04:002007-08-24T11:07:37.003-04:00Back-to-school schadenfreudeAnother Welp's Louisville is available for your viewing pleasure. Elsewhere in LEO, Stephen George has an amazing list of items Louisville could have gotten for its portion of the Iraq War cost:• Healthcare for 186,821 people• 13,438 more elementary school teachers• Renewable electricity in 542,429 houses• 7,847 new units of affordable housing• 74 new elementary Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-82965760508457942502007-08-23T16:40:00.001-04:002007-08-23T16:40:53.975-04:00VocabCapgras delusionJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-15073194554522338782007-08-22T12:13:00.000-04:002007-08-22T12:19:55.984-04:00Further evidence that mankind was a bad ideaLadies and gentlemen, I give you the plastic tire swing. Better named "The Anti-recycler," this bad baby not only mocks nature by modeling a new piece of unbiodegrabable trash on an old piece of unbiodegradable trash, it sets an example for the toddler set that this world is ours to plunder and destroy. I saw one of these in the 'hood today and had to Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-22401707662432266212007-08-22T11:44:00.000-04:002007-08-22T11:46:06.793-04:00Old people don't read, except when they doHere's some helpful information from the Associated Press, in a story about reading habits in America: According to the story,"One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and older people were most avid…"Later in the story:"Who are the 27 percent of Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-82613846245647973962007-08-17T15:36:00.000-04:002007-08-17T15:39:35.927-04:00From this week's LEO:Blown awake: Young Republicans with spunkWhen Hoosier republican Glenn Murphy Jr abruptly resigned from his posts as chairman of both the Clark County Republican Party and the Young Republican National Federation, bloggers nationwide dashed to their online thesauri for clever oral sex synonyms. That's because Murphy apparently didn't resign to take a new job (after "praying Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-41016484600771043492007-08-15T12:56:00.000-04:002007-08-15T13:03:29.863-04:00Dad becomes a video starWhile you're marveling at Born Again Floozies' Joey Welch's guitar playing, see if you can spot my dad in this video, a role the critics are hailing as an "Elvis-Costello-lookalike" and "Best use of pinkie in a tea party in a supporting role." Just a little taste of what's in store for you Saturday night at The Jazz Factory:Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-3278065523608086552007-08-15T12:43:00.000-04:002007-08-15T12:56:21.066-04:00Born Again Floozies at The Jazz FactoryThe one, the only Born Again Floozies are making a rare Louisville appearance at the one, the only Jazz Factory this Saturday at 11 PM. You really don't want to miss the world's most born-again Floozies (most floozies struggle to be born at all, let alone twice) tapping and tuba-ing in Louisville's best room and you really, really, really don't want to miss Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-85104306255068972602007-08-15T12:36:00.000-04:002007-08-15T12:38:19.712-04:00From last week's LEO:Pop Quiz Guy entertains the neighborsSugar and I ran into Pop Quiz Guy on our morning stroll and he taught us that the first Model T Ford sold in Louisville changed hands on Shelbyville Road in St. Matthews. This seems like fate, since the area has been an auto-sales wasteland ever since. Imagine if that first customer had walked away.Sugar hates it when Pop Quiz Guy stops usJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-71269846797459044412007-08-14T15:46:00.000-04:002007-08-14T15:47:30.876-04:00From last week's LEO:Rich kids countOnce again, those pesky researchers at the Annie E. Casey Foundation have shone a light on the way children live in America and once again, Kentucky's kids' ranking came in near the bottom. The "Kids Count" study, which reported data from 2005, ranked Kentucky 40th, up from 42nd the previous year. But several key measurements actually worsened slightly, Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-24040021533826341112007-08-14T15:44:00.000-04:002007-08-14T15:48:19.809-04:00From last week's LEO:Henhouse hires foxBoth agencies that oversee public education in Kentucky are finding it impossible to hire leaders, possibly because it's not a lot of fun doing the impossible with the unfunded for the thankless. Both the Kentucky Department of Education, which oversees K-12 schools, and the Council on Postsecondary Education, which oversees public colleges, have seen Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-78817835352985857242007-08-13T10:16:00.000-04:002007-08-13T10:25:20.139-04:00Mencken, McCarthy, Lama, PesslDoes anything go together better than books and vacation? What can top the guilt-free indulgence of reading for 10 hours at a stretch? It's like drinking liquor in the morning, clicking Send after typing the flame-mail and losing your religion: maybe you shouldn't do it, but fuckabunchathat, it sure is fun.I read a few books on vacation that individually aren't life Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-75374299358072937942007-07-27T12:26:00.000-04:002007-07-27T12:28:28.397-04:00VacationHey kids, I'm outta here for a coupla weeks. Until then, here are some puppies. See ya.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-9351360672043098842007-07-26T11:45:00.000-04:002007-07-26T11:47:25.598-04:00Copping the tomato buzzThe neurotic gardener vs. the whiteflyJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-30852684272612458302007-07-25T10:09:00.000-04:002007-07-25T10:16:33.016-04:00Dennis Miller: It's the heatIn a recent OFGS reader poll, I asked whether Dennis Miller was an asshole and it was the heat or Dennis Miller was an asshole and it was the humidity. Turns out it was a little of both. 58% of you said Dennis Miller is an asshole and it's hot outside and 42% of you said Dennis Miller is an asshole and it's the humidity. I agree completely. Thank you all for voting. Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-85266796823140787642007-07-24T09:34:00.000-04:002007-07-24T09:36:56.343-04:00These highwaters are totally harshing my mellowThese highwaters are totally harshing my mellow. It's weird that pants can hold so much sway over your mood. All day long, I'm going to be tugging them down so they don't look ridiculous and then, feeling like a '90s teenager with sagging schoolboy pants, hiking them back up again. Over an over.I'm probably the only one who even notices but I'm Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-69147847238644660822007-07-20T12:21:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:24:02.843-04:00From this week's LEODo it for AlIf you could reduce your electricity consumption, lower your monthly expenses, reduce CO2 emissions, and help LG&E avoid building future generating capacity, all while suffering almost no discomfort, would you do it? The magic way to achieve all those goals is to lower your energy consumption during peak hours. For most people, those are when we are at work (duringJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-2266947403769136792007-07-20T12:18:00.000-04:002007-07-20T12:21:15.212-04:00From this week's LEOIt’s a gas, gas, gasConventional wisdom has it that a powerful Senate leader has the clout to make all kinds of magic happen for the people back home. But one thing Senate Minority Leader and presidential hiney-climber-inner Mitch McConnell — along with all the king’s horses and all the kings men and women — have not been able to accomplish is the destruction of a large stash Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-88185099266974248472007-07-19T10:23:00.000-04:002007-07-19T10:28:18.772-04:00Carlson's testicles saved by reflex actionMSNBC talk-show host Tucker Carlson has restored his balls to threat-level orange, thanks to multiple involuntary leg crossings.Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227118.post-70076990834850971482007-07-19T10:17:00.000-04:002007-07-19T10:19:32.552-04:00What to say when a nun interrupts your drunken childhood mischiefOn the Fourth of July, The Catholic church down the street programmed its bells to play patriotic music, including, bizarrely, "The Halls of Montezuma" (with its earworm "First to fight for right and freedom and to keep our honor clean; we are proud to claim the title of United States Marine") and "The Caissons go rolling along." WeJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11560696907638358968noreply@blogger.com0