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It's Snookums Sunday here at Medary.com.

Snookums really wanted to buy a Yugo. Her brother talked her out of it.

Photo from Amazon's Car Lust blog.

In retrospect, probably a good thing, but who knows what might have been?

Post title is of course a reference to Paul Shanklin's parody of Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto, made (in)famous by Rush Limbaugh.

As readers know, my Snookums is a Tennesee Lady Vol.

The bags are out in Knoxville for the UT football team.

Photo from Michael Silence.

Hat tip Instapundit.

Read in the Volokh Conspiracy lawblog:

The other day, I offered my view that Congress today is fundamentally a silly place stocked with silly people. This latest situation illustrates the principle.

Emphasis mine, but not really needed.  Is it?

Oh, Joy!

Brachylophus bulabula, or so says ScienceDaily . . .

Because anything is better than hearing about politics, stock markets, or hurricanes any more.

Arr.

Shiver me timbers.

Belay that, ya squab!

Yo.

Ho.

Ho.

That oughta do it.

The NFL referee who blew the call, and gave the Denver Broncos a win against San Diego, from the Kansas City Star:

Hochuli, an official for 19 seasons and a referee for 17, had e-mailed fans in San Diego and told them, “I failed miserably.”
. . .
(NFL Supervisor of Officials Mike) Pereira said on his weekly NFL Network show that he’s tried to be as supportive as he can to Hochuli, “but he’s devastated — as he should be.”

No finger-pointing, no directing the blame somewhere else.  Just a guy who trying to do a hard job, screws up, then says to the world "I screwed up."  There is no man so worthy as one who has made a mistake, recognizes it, and refuses to try to blame someone else.  That's called being a stand-up guy.  It's not the good times that reveal character, but the bad times--the times where things have gone wrong, when everyone's after your neck.

A lesson on how to deal with personal failure that could perhaps be profitably studied elsewhere in American society.

The Grand Asia & Australia Voyage - Holland America Amsterdam, September 19-November 23, 2008

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part One

September 16 (Tuesday, Day 1, Flying to Seattle, Washington) –

Departure day!

Midwest Airlines at KCI

Flying over Mt. Rainier

I don't have to post on the connections of Obama's senior advisors to the Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac debacle, and the high overall content of Democrat fingerprints all over the home mortgage mess that's currently metastasizing throughout the financial sector.

Nor do I have to post on the unconscionably sleazy hacking into Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account and spreading the contents far and wide across the Internet--in an attempt to find more sleaze with which to slime the Alaska Governor.

Nor do I have to post on Obama's continuing confusion regarding who he's running against (G.W. Bush?  Rush Limbaugh?  Who is that white-haired old man with the funny walk, anyway?)

Nor do I have to post on Obama's continuing efforts to silence political opponents by organizing concerted campaigns to simply shout them down.

Because, you know, I'd really like to.  But other bloggers have it covered pretty well.

Via the ever-dependable Fark.com, some Vermont TV station reports:

An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after being "kidnapped" and later dumped in a corn field in Vermont.

Yeah, it's an AP story, but I'm walking on the wild side tonight . . .

I see the long-term effects of today's 500+ drop in the DJA and all of the stock markets as being a good thing - - long term, that is.

Short term, lots of people who had nothing to do with the problem are going to get hurt.  That's bad.  But lots of people who had a hand in engineering the mess in Wall Street got their knuckles rapped hard by reality today.

I heard something on the radio today:  Responsibility Requires Risk.  When you take the risk out of any economic endeavor, you take the responsibility out, too.  Without risk, you can behave irresponsibly and get away with it.  Of course, risk is always there--it's just that some folks are better at shifting the risk to Somebody Else than other people.  These people tend to be a) very wealthy and b) very corrupt.  Most of them are politicians, including, today, most of the members of Congress.

Think of that the next time you want the Government to come swooping in to solve a "market failure."

(Still not "politics."   I didn't name any candidates.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)