Random Thoughts 11/22/05

• It looks like we'll be adopted by another family for Thanksgiving. We're heading to Americus, Ks to visit Jarod Anderson's folks. We'll let the boys see the cows and we'll play board games and just hang out. We're having Mexican food, I hear.
• Highest gas prices in the nation? Honolulu. The lowest? Wichita.
  
• Here's why you shouldn't get a tattoo. This Christian tattoo has an alpha and omega in it. The only problem is that they must have taken the English spelling of both "Alpha" and "Omega" and converted into a Greek font on the computer, misspelling both words in the process! Oops! There's always laser surgery.
• Speaking of Greek, it's about that time of year again. Remember that X-mas does not mean that you're ex-ing out Christ. It's not even an "x". It's the Greek letter chi (sounds kinda like "key"), the first letter of the word Christ and the reason we spell it with a "ch" even though it sounds like a "k." When you study theology, it's not unusual at all to abbreviate Jesus Christ as Jesus X (not "x" but chi). In fact, when I was taking notes in college, "Christian" became "Xn," "Christianity" looked like "Xnty," and "Christmas" was "Xmas." With that cleared up hopefully there will be a few less folks burnt at the stake this year.
• KU lost their second game in Maui. I may not blog a lot during the obligatory mourning period.
• The Kansas City Star (our local socialist newsrag) ranked the suburbs of KC. KCK came in at 37 out of 40. Does that mean I can get a discount on my property taxes? Or a refund maybe? Actually it's silly. KCK encompasses an entire county which varies by quite a bit. I think my part of KCK is a pretty good place to live.
  
• I know I'm about a year late on this, but I finally saw the "Numa Numa" video and I just about fell out of my chair laughing (I'm easily amused at one in the morning). It's this heavy-set kid lip-synching a Romanian dance song. It's just too funny. Read about it here and see the video here.
  
• It seems like Chris Matthews actually said this. Holy cow. It is important that we remember that the terrorists are people. Not monsters, not animals, not something that can be dismissed and exterminated wholesale, but real live people with families and such. But they are evil people. It's not different, Chris, it's evil. Or don't you believe in evil? If someone wants to kill you and your family and your neighbors, it's not different, it's evil. Do you feel so bad about yourself that you can't see that?! [Thanks Jerry Agar of News Radio 980 for saying the exact same thing about an hour after I wrote this. Jerry Agar has some good stuff on his blog.]