The Queen is dead . . .

. . . long live the queen.

Last night was the season two finale of "The Tudors." Anne's speech given on the gallows seemed to be word-for-word from the historical record, and Natalie Dormer delivered it very nicely.

Whatever blows your skirt up . . .

. . . or, how is your logic IQ? How are these photos related? OK, that was a cheap intro. I admit it, but it was the first thought to come to my mind.

Random Sunday irritants . . .

The latest commercial has four or five full-on gee-tar playin', cowboy hat wearin', country singin' good ol' boys singing "VIVA Viagra!" Yeah. Like that's going to happen

Is there anyone more irritating than this guy?

I don't get it. In fact, I never did. I guess it's a chick thing. Also, I've noticed that all of Sarah Jessica Parker's magazine covers are photographed straight on. No profiles. I think I nose why.

On "The Tudors," Anne is in deep doo. Who could have predicted that? Not really irritating, but I hate to see her go off all headless.

Finally, an open letter to several folks I was stuck in traffic with yesterday: Hey! It's possible I could like you. We could even be friends. You're driving a nice car, and seem to be a nice person. There's even a chance I could learn to like your music. If I could hear it, that is. But . . . I don't hear a cotton-picking thing except that gawd-awful thumping bass woofer you've got stuck in your trunk, and turned up to 8.6 on the Richter scale. Like I said, you may be a really nice person, but at this exact moment, I really, really wish that the wires to your woofer would short out to , say, about 1200 volts, and generate a pressure wave that would completely implode your worthless fu**ing skull.

Odd . . .

. . . Very odd, indeed. I went out to the patio to toss a steak on the grill, and noticed this bird sitting on my neighbor's roof. Now, birds on a roof are not all that odd, but . . .

. . . ducks? This is the second time this week I've seen a duck sitting on the peak of a roof. I was not aware that ducks perched in high places. Web feet don't seem to be that good for gripping.

Sometimes, you just want to . . .

. . . raise the WTF flag.

Mexico's deputy attorney general thinks that the U.S. should put more security on the border to halt the flow of guns into Mexico.

Reacting to a vote by U.S. lawmakers to trim an aid package for the drug war, Mexico's deputy attorney general, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, said an alternative would be to keep the cash in the United States and use it to curb illegal arms trafficking across the border.

"Some of us were talking, remarking that, well, this (sum of money) is all very well, but why don't we tell the Americans they could spend it on their (border security forces) to stop the flow of arms to Mexico," Santiago Vasconcelos said in remarks on local radio distributed by his office on Saturday.

Dude! It's your border also. Maybe Mexico has a little responsibility there too. Oh, and while you're about it, how about shutting down that avalanche of illegals that you actually ENCOURAGE to slip into the U.S.?

I'ts Memorial Day Here . . .



. . . so, thank you to:

My Father

U. S. Navy, 1943-1946

WWII - Guam

My Grandfather

U. S. Army, 1908

Philippines

My Great-Great-Grandfather

Co. K, 7th Illinois Infantry

1861-1865
American Civil War

Andersonville Survivor

Everybody's an expert . . .

. . . and half of them are idiots. I've mentioned before that Naval Air Station Oceana is nearby, and the pilots based there fly FA-18 Super Hornets. The Navy is looking for an outlying landing field (OLF) so the pilots can practice aircraft carrier launches and recoveries.

Because the airplane is so loud, nobody wants an OLF in their county. So, our local experts dimwits are making suggestions.

First, it was "anchor a retired carrier in the ocean, and let them use that." Yeah, right! Lets have our pilots execute what is probably the most difficult maneuver in military aviation in real time with no practice, and no room for error. Thanks for the suggestion, dumbass.

Now, another deep thinker lamebrain suggests that our pilots don't need to fly airplanes to learn. "Let's just let them learn in simulators. After all, that's how airline pilots learn." Sure. That's the ticket. I'm just raring to hop on a 747 with a pilot who learned to fly a computer, and who's never been off the ground. Sign me right up.

Question of the day: Where do these people generate the number of synapse firings to required to walk and breathe at the same time?