I wanna be a lawyer…

YAR — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:16:32 +0000

… but unfortunately Treffly Coyne already has one. Still, I can’t help but want to be in that courtroom to make the argument in her defense. I’ve got the perfect gimmick. When I get the arresting officer on the stand I’d have a car brought into the courtroom, put a toddler in the backseat, lock the doors and activate the alarm – just like she did. Then I’d take a step back and ask if he thinks the child is at risk. No? Take a step back. Now? No? Take another step, and another, and another. Is the child in danger now? When is it? Apparently at 10 yards it is.
The playground I take to my kids to is 50 yards across – five times the distance that this woman was away from her child – and the playground is right across the street from the town police department. Yet, to the best of my knowledge no one has ever been arrested there on child endangerment charges for setting up a lawn chair and letting their kids run wild for the afternoon.

Oh crap. Does this mean that bullshit like this is gonna end up on some presidential candidate’s platform?

I’m sorry there’s no money to make our world better Timmy, the oil companies need it.

YAR — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:06:16 +0000

A brief story on Morning Edition this morning mentioned that the House just passed a bill that would take 19 billion dollars in tax breaks away from Big Oil and use that money to promote wind and solar power. It then goes on to say that Republicans opponents (which ones?) argue that taking these tax incentives away could make it harder for oil companies to compete globally. Are they serious? There are actually people who think that Big Oil deserves 19 BILLION dollars in free cash? For what, exactly? In 2006, Exxon Mobil posted the largest profits of any company in the history of the U.S. – 39.5 BILLION – and yet there’s still someone who dares to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and state for the record that the oil industry needs tax breaks? Breaks from WHAT? FROM WHAT?

“Oh, oh, here, just take another 19 BILLION dollars. While you’re at it, could you continue to perpetuate the myth that civilization as we know it will grind to a halt if we stop burning fossil fuels? Thanks.”

Isn’t it some law of nature that a person can say something so blatantly stupid that they just burst into flames? I think there is. It just must be broken.

I’m no economist, but I’d say that they’re competing just fine without more of my money.

Yelling At The Radio

I wanna be a lawyer…

I’m sorry there’s no money to make our world better Timmy, the oil companies need it.