Dude, why all the satire the last couple of days? I mean, sure, it's funny and all, but InappropriateContent is a place for serious discussion of the issues! What's with the change of pace?

Two answers. First, it's easy and I'm lazy. I took an early-morning flight into National yesterday and discovered that I can actually get from Detroit to my office faster than I can get from the dorm to my office. However, large quantities of espresso are prohibitively expensive at airport prices, so I spent most of the morning wandering around the office in a half-conscious daze—a condition that apparently induces accurate-yet-angry satirical broadsides at the shallowness of network morning shows. The evidence suggests I don't like Matt Lauer very much.

Second, it's just getting harder to take this administration seriously at all anymore. Click here to read a presidential proclamation declaring that reconstruction of the Gulf Coast requires suspension of the minimum wage for construction workers, and enacting such a suspension. Government of, by, and for the people who sign the paychecks, eh?

Blech.

In any case, vacations are good. Detroit included a trip to Niagara Falls, which is a lot like Reno, Nevada, only with a really big waterfall. There are Vegas-lite™ style hotel-casinos and strange attractions, such as Ripley's Museum and the Skylon Tower (pictured) an attraction that sounds a little too like "Cylon Tower" for my tastes. I'm afraid if I go in, I'll encounter The Poor Man's Kevin Spacey. The falls themselves are a great deal of fun, though it's hard to maintain your dignity in a blue plastic rain slicker.

My sister does a very good job of it, as you can see:



Now, I hate to be one of those liberals who whines about how great the Canadians have it. (After all, do they have a president who's "Vision for Space Exploration" includes putting a man on the moon as early as 2018? Nope. That's just for us. And China.) But it is pretty damned cool to be able to stop at a gas station, get a donut and a coffee, give the clerk a twenty, and get twenty-one dollars and sixty-four cents in change. Sure, that's in Canadian money, which is really only useful for gypping your friends out of .29¢, and even then only if you happen to have bet them exactly two dollars instead of "two American dollars" or "two of your Earth monies." Also, you can be smug 'cause you know who Sir Robert Borden is your friends don't.

In conclusion, a cheap, greasy all-you-can-eat buffet is still a cheap, greasy all-you-can-eat buffet—even in London, Ontario.

sign on college campus that was giving out information by the LaRouche youth movement: "Katrina gave Bush a blow job, can he be impeached?"
observer in Seattle

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:39 PM

 

it is equally hard to look dignified as an adult in a 30 + year old life vest on a row boat at tiney (but cute) Pleasesant Lake but your sister did that briefly too. You on the other hand... I have pictures!
-missing her cousins in TN allready

Posted by  Anonymous @ 1:29 PM

 

you can also bring back Canadian Earth Monies to your oh so grateful boyfriend. :)

...Skylons?!? I'm sure I've never even SEEN a Skylon much less been intimately involved with one! Or inadvertantly aided their plots!

Posted by  Anonymous @ 6:24 PM

 

Don't forget that we purchased Canadian gas (only $1.07 a LITER) on the Wayne Gretzky Parkway in his hometown of Brantford, Ont. - Hockeytown USA native in UT

Posted by  Anonymous @ 8:31 PM

 

Oh, Canada...or as they say in their red light districts: Ho Canada! - Canada Lover in UT

Posted by  Anonymous @ 7:31 PM

 

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