Braised Lambchop
a nurse trying to work while suffering with chronic pain - she rambles a bit

Most of them are inane and pointless.

One blog that has been a referer of mine in the past (won't say which out of politeness) has about 20 things down the right hand side of the page, but the HTML is so bad that they all point to one site about halfway down. In other words, clicking on the bottom link, which should take you to something like "What kind of body lotion am I?" takes you instead to "Here's what I look like in chalk" or something like that, and so does every single hyperlink on the page. It's overkill - "Look at me! I've found 37 dumb things to put on my page to make you think I'm cool!!"

I've gone to TTLB and registered my blog (currently I'm a Flippery Fish, whatever the hell that means), and I've done the Amazon Associates thing. I've seen both of those so many places that I feel like a fool for displaying the codes over on the left with my lists. That's the problem I have with so many of these things - it seems to me that three-fourths of the blogs have codes like TTLB listed because the owners are just proud they were able to figure out how to put the code into their site in the first place. It doesn't have anything to do with the purpose of the blog other than to muck up the site like a commercial billboard.

Still, tonight I found a quiz I like, and I decided to actually copy the code:

You are Schroeder!

Which Peanuts Character are You?

I always liked Schroeder.

However, this is my solemn pledge to you, my dear reader, that I will not muss up my clean, lovely blue blog with "I'm Schroeder" or "I'm a Blue M&M" or "I'm a Diet Coke with Lime" or any other advertisement - unless I really, really feel like one of those things.

Tonight, I feel like shredded cheese. So I'm off to bed.

(Clicking this hyperlink will do one of two things. If you have iTunes installed, iTunes will open and go to the iTunes Music Store, where you will see goodness. If you are one of the four people who don't have iTunes installed, this hyperlink will take you to the page where you can download iTunes for free. iTunes is the foundation for all good things.)

I did attend this concert, and it was very good. If you don't know anything about the group, I recommend also picking up Rock Spectacle (pronounced speck-TAK, not SPECK-tah-cul - they're Canadian creative type guys). It's obviously older, but it also has two of their best ballads not performed at the Dallas concert (to my great disappointment) and therefore not on this album, 'What A Good Boy' and 'Jane', and some very funny bonus material at the end. And don't miss Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits.

Finally, if you've missed their videos, check out Barelaked Nadies, their greatest video hits on DVD, for much silliness (although the video for 'Chimps' is not included)

Thus endeth the 'Essential Barenaked Ladies' lesson for today. Enjoy!

Now, that's pretty pro-life. Tom Coburn, a former member of the House of Representatives from Oklahoma, who is campaigning to become the Republican Party's candidate to replace retiring Senator Don Nickles, recently said he supports the death penalty for doctors...

I don't understand why these fools call themselves 'pro-life' in one breath and cheer for capital punishment in the next. Is is just me, or am I the only one who thinks these pro-life/pro-death penalty people are nothing but hypocrites? How can a doctor hold himself up to be a saint, shouting to all who will listen about his plan to 'protect the unborn,' and at the same time completely disregard the value of those lives already here? At least the Catholic Church comes down on the same side of the issue. Coburn is just pandering to his base, making him nothing but a Bush sycophant and a hypocrite.

Coburn is still in private practice as a physician. Man, am I glad I'm not one of his patients. If I were to tell this doctor something with which he disagreed, he'd not only treat me, he'd turn me in to his hatemonger cronies and advocate for my execution. At least he provides a full-service experience. That's so rare in physician/patient relationships these days.

And on top of that, Coburn still lives in the GOoP dream world of abortion actually being illegal in this country. It would be pretty difficult to put anyone who performed an abortion to death, since we still have control over our bodies for the moment. While I don't believe the Supreme Court is in as much peril as some of the liberal organizations want us to think, since there aren't any cases currently before the Court that would overturn Roe and the Court seems stable for at least one more term, I have no doubt that the Oklahoma Legislature would try to take over women's decisions for them if the composition of the Court moves to the right.

Fortunately, Coburn isn't a judge. He's a doctor. Hopefully Bob Anthony will kick his ass, and he won't be a senator.