Nobrainer’s Think Tank

Doug provides a brief discussion and humorous suggestion related to BOLRs (boxers of last resort). I’m going to be chuckling at that for the rest of the day, at least.

Let’s see… one, yes only one, person was recently injured by a pet chimpanzee. So naturally Congress had to rush to make BOLD CHANGE! to add even more useless pages to federal laws to make keeping primates as pets illegal (because it’s such a problem, obviously).

So why did we need this so badly?

“There is no reason for any private citizen to keep a primate as a pet, and this trade is driven by unscrupulous dealers who sell primates across state lines for thousands of dollars,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS. “Congressional action on this animal welfare and public safety issue will complement our efforts at the state level to dry up the trade and the practice of private ownership of chimps and other primates.”

There’s “no reason?” None? Really? I mean I think owning a primate is utterly repulsive, but I, because I’m honest, can even accept that there might be some reason to do it… similar to how, ya know, people own cats and dogs.

But beyond that, someone ought to tell Wayne Pacelle, a goddamn president and CEO, that making things illegal doesn’t “dry up the trade”, rather it makes it more profitable for unscrupulous people do what they’re already doing…. which always solves the problem at hand.

I guess I can cross the Humane Society off the list of charities worthy of receiving any of my money.

It’s Fat Tuesday, and I am so disgusted by all of this that I am going to give up my liver for Lent, starting tonight.

That about sums up my feelings.

I’m wondering, is there a word in English that means “the day after tomorrow?” There doesn’t seem to be, so perhaps one should be created.

My first suggestion is Tomorrowmorrow. It’s a little cumbersome to type, but it’s fun to say.

Although a google search lead me to find that the Hebrew word for the day after tomorrow is moxrotayeem, which may have some potential.

Rachel and I went to UT this weekend to watch the Beavs play a couple of games against the Volunteers. We had a good time and I figure I should put some thoughts from the weekend here on the blog.

• UT’s campus is not pretty.
• Their baseball stadium is nice.
• UT didn’t play too well on Saturday as they only seemed to have one good pitcher. Things got really bad in the top of the 9th when Oregon State scored 8 runs on 3 hits.
• Sunday’s game was cancelled because of snow.
• This was the first real road trip in my new car. It’s definitely a step up from the old one, and i was pleased to have averaged over 35mpg on the return trip.

Given that I’ve never bought a home. But given the current bills going through DC, I wonder what is my mortgage debt?