09:44 – If you needed any more evidence that cats are evil, go read this. Yes, it’s true. Cats are responsible for most of the evils in the world. They carry a hideous infection that is almost impossible to treat and severely affects the functioning of the brains of people who are infected with it. (Most liberals suffer from toxoplasmosis. I am entirely serious about this. If they weren’t infected, they probably wouldn’t be liberals. If you’ve ever wondered how liberals can be so clueless, now you know.)
This is why I won’t let Colin catch cats. If you see a cat, do the world a favor. Shoot it and burn the corpse. Seriously. And don’t let your dog catch one, unless you want your dog to vote for Obama.
The Greek Kabuki theatre continues. Everyone, including Greece, knows that the EU, which is to say Germany, has already written off Greece as unsalvageable. Germany’s only concern right now is to minimize the cost of this mess for Germany. At this point, Germany and the rest of the EU are pretty confident that they have in place what’s necessary to prevent a Greek default from toppling the rest of the southern tier eurozone nations. (They’re wrong, as they’re about to find out.) So, smart money is now betting that Germany will allow Greece to collapse on 20 March, confident that the collapse can be contained to Greece. The only reason this may not happen is that Germany may still decide to buy a little more time to shore up its defenses, although the cost of doing so is extremely high. Greece, of course, is doing what it’s done all along; promising anything to get more loans, with no intention of even attempting to meet its commitments. Germany, of course, knows that Greece will promise anything to get more loans, but has no intention of even trying to comply with the loan conditions.
A year or so ago, I compared Greece to the sheriff in Blazing Saddles, putting his own gun to his head and threatening to shoot himself if everyone didn’t back off. That’s exactly what Greece has been doing for the last year, threatening to commit suicide and drag the rest of the eurozone down with it. But Germany has finally had enough. Merkel’s message to Greece is now, “Go ahead and pull the trigger. We’re better off without you anyway.”
I think I’m going to go ahead and sign up for Amazon Prime. For $79/year, it’s just about a no-brainer. Not only do we buy a lot of stuff from Amazon that we could be getting free 2-day shipping on, but there’s that one free ebook a month and the streaming videos to sweeten the pot. I’ve been checking lately, and a lot of stuff that Netflix has only on DVD, Amazon has streaming.
Speaking of Netflix streaming, we just bagged MI-5 (originally Spooks). It was supposed to be excellent, but it’s actually crap. Bad writing, bad acting, bad everything. We suffered through 10 or so episodes, hoping that it would get better, but it was actually getting worse. We bagged it in the middle of an episode last night. The MI-5 crew was attempting to deal with a dirty bomb going off in London. Except that it wasn’t a dirty bomb; it was a nerve gas release. Sitting there listening to the pseudo-scientific crap finally did it for me. Were you aware, for example, that VX nerve gas takes 1 to 2 hours to disable the victim (actually, it’s more like 15 seconds to a minute before loss of consciousness)? Or that the antidote is atropine (true, in combination with 2-PAM and a sedative) injected directly into the heart(!)? Or that 10 kilograms of VX released in London was sufficient to kill everyone in southeast England (actually, if it was distributed as an aerosol it might kill everyone within a few hundred yards downwind, not that a terrorist bomb is likely to produce an aerosol effectively.) I could deal with the scientific bogosity, but that in combination with sloppy writing and the actors chewing the scenery was just too much to tolerate.
