He Lied, Fish Died

As reported last week Dubya told a German newspaper that the highpoint of his Presidency was catching a 7.5 pound perch in his private (stocked) lake.
Bill Maher caught Bush in a lie. The largest perch ever caught is a little under four pounds for a white perch, and just over 4 pounds for a yellow perch. Of course if it was a Nile Perch all bets are off. (I don't think it is).

Of course, here is a picture of a White perch and here is one of a yellow perch. My best guess is a bad translation from the german.

Here is official Whitehouse transcript

The best moment was -- you know, I've had a lot of great moments. I don't know, it's hard to characterize the great moments. They've all been busy moments, by the way. I would say the best moment was when I caught a seven-and-a-half pound large mouth bass on my lake. (Laughter.)

So, it seems the official line is it is a Large-mouth bass.
But it don't don't look like one to me nor does it look like a small mouth bass. It does look like a Striped Bass Hybrid.
More accurately I think it is a Palmetto Bass
This is a dilettante fish.
And it's the best moment of his adminstration.

Feh.

What About the One that Got Away?

High Point of Bush's Presidency catching a 7.5 pound perch in his own lake.


Not finding this guy
not a big deal.

The Right Way to Learn Calculus

Ahh d/dx

Also, those mighty Beavers of M.I.T. go into battle chanting this...

"E to the U, dU dX, E to the X, dX

Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine!

3-point-1-4-1-5-9!

Integral! Radical! µ, DV

Slipstick! Slide rule! M.I.T.!"

One of the many problems in this country is our lack of basic, and advanced, math skills. We dumb down how we teach. When I was in HS, we had to do logarithms in with a table. Now you can use a calculator.

I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry and I failed calculus in College (the first time). Of course, I learned practical calculus for PChem and in grad school, so I am a functionally literate calculus-or, but that's about it.

Favorite Lyric

Well, to have a little fun, I am listening to my CD player, and right now the Fun Loving Criminals are on it...
I think one of the best lyrics ever written is

"running around,
robbing banks,
whacked on Scooby Snacks..."

Any other votes?

Save the Internet

Save the Internet

Nobody in their un-TeleComm-Lined mind can possibly think this is a good idea.

Please take action.

Neanderthal in Sports...Shocking

Hernandez a Doofus

And she ranks ahead of the video coordinator on the org chart.


And, well, she plays a crucial role:

The Padres also are relying on their full-time massage therapist, Kelly Calabrese, who has earned a reputation for hamstring maintenance. Two players who came to the club with a history of hamstring problems, Jay Payton and Dave Roberts, suffered no DL-caliber hamstring injuries in their first season with the Padres. “Kelly is phenomenal,” Roberts said. Her regulars this year likely will include Sledge, who in May had surgery to repair a torn right hamstring.

Hernandez was a good player... to me the most notable thing about his career was that 1984-86 he batted .310, .309, and .311. Even neater, in two of those years, 84 and 86, he OBP'd .409 and .413, and SLG'd .449 and .446. That's consistency.

But "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small mind".

Small mind indeed.

Shouldn't Grampa be asleep in front of the TV...

...not in a White House Briefing?

Rules to Have Sex by

Satan's gonna get yer nuts

"Moon's warning to America is that we must have sex the way he entreats us, in the positions he has designated, or else forfeit our "love organs," as he dubs them, to the dark lord Satan.

After the act of love," read the instructions from the Rev. Moon's
conservative Family Federation, "both spouses should wipe their sexual areas
with the Holy Handkerchief. Hang the handkerchief[s] to dry naturally and keep
them eternally. They must be kept individually labeled and should never be
laundered and mixed up.

The women are the problem in history," he said in 2004. "Women who don't want to have children should cut away their breasts, bottoms and love organ because the purpose for those was first for the children. If they don't fulfill that purpose, then they are not needed."

A Wiki Guide to "The Master". And that, boys and girls, is why you should listen to America's Taliban.

Well...DUH!!!

Worst.President.Ever