Tuesday, March 18, 2008

My god, it's full of stars

"Behind every man now alive there stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet earth.

"Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way.

"So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star."

--Arthur C. Clarke
1917-2008

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Stick to the milkshakes..

..Oberweiner!

Republicans lost the seat of disgraced former Speaker of the House Denny's Fatstert today, as lacto-magnate Jim Oberweiner lost the IL-14 Congressional special election to known liberal Bill Foster (D-Actual name).

Here's a picture of Denny's and his personal ice cream man, the biggest fatest losers in the GOP (this week):