Thoughtless for the Day

Once of the reason that I took a break from blogging is that I was becoming disparaged over what I'd like to post as opposed to what I feel I need to post. In a perfect world, the overwhelming majority of RATYHTL posts would look like this:
The Lives of Famous Whores

The "wolves' lair" - ancient Pompeii's biggest, best planned and most richly decorated brothel - yesterday reopened to the public after extensive restoration.

While this is great news, I can't help but think that the Archaeologists involved need to take the restoration to the nth degree by reopening the Wolves' Lair as a fully functioning whorehouse featuring the world's most enthusiastic "historical re-enactors". Shit Luther, one restored and functioning brothel could easily finance the excavation of Pompeii.

By the way, a friend of mine once told me that one of the best parts about visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum is seeing the horrified expressions on the faces of repressed Americans when then they see the erotic murals adorning the cities' walls.

PS. Don't forget to attend the Dracula Parade on Saturday night.

And now the Suburban Lawns with Janitor!!!!

OK, that's the kind of post I'd like to fire off. Here's the sort of post a feel a sort of obligation to publish:

The Law of Gravity

Here are two examples of how the shit flows down hill:

1) Wages haven't grown in years so workers have been giving themselves "raises" in the form of maxing out their credit cards. Another other way to for these folks to feel like they're getting a little something extra in their piggy banks is for them to vote for politicians who promise to cut their taxes (on little cut for the working class and one BIG ct for the wealthy). Of course, that means that the government has less money to do little things like, oh say, paying off the national debt. But that's OK, because we can always borrow money from China.

2. If Bush's drive-by shooting of Habeas Corpus didn't tip you off that America is now officially a third world country, this should:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney was not talking about a torture technique known as "water boarding" when he said dunking terrorism suspects in water during questioning was a "no-brainer."

Despite having endured Ice Capades, I am not an expert on torture. However, I think it's pretty unlikely that if an interrogator is dunking a prisoner's head into a bucket of water it's not because all of the good glasses are in the dish washer.

Of course there are a few stubborn little brown folks who may not confess to whatever we said they or someone who looks like them did. In this case, we may have to dunk their wives' heads in a bucket. Remember, we are NOT talking about water boarding. The United States does not torture! That's why it's perfectly acceptable to hold a the head of a man, his wife, or for that matter his children, in a bucket of water until America once again commands the respect of the world.