My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine.

Alaska Representative, Don Young. Man, I don't even know where to start or begin here. I'm just going to have to stream-of-consciousness this one:

• I realize this is an old guy but even my grandparents - older by at least six years - know you don't just casually toss around racial slurs.
• He can't possibly have thought that it was an acceptable term, could he? I mean, he hasn't actually apologized for saying it.
• If he had used the term, 'spics,' what kind of reaction would that have generated?
• Why wouldn't he have just said, 'workers,' instead? What purpose does using the pejorative serve?

That's all I can think of right now but man, that is just too funny. I know I'm a pretty liberal dude with no love for the GOP but I'd like to see how the crazies are reacting to this - probably trying to somehow pin this as a platform of the Republicans or something when it's really just some out-of-touch old dude.

Of course, this does remind me of the time that Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen" happened to be playing in the background (at a low volume) during a car ride and my grandmother on my father's side interrupted whatever conversation was happening to note: "This sounds like a bunch of coloreds, jazzing it up!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/us/politics/dick-cheney-recovering-after-getting-a-new-heart.html?_r=1&hp

GOD DAMN IT.

Thanks for the ice dildo, thats wonderful.

I got you your favorite thing in the world!

You know you love it.

My favorite pic of the day:

I guess he had the time of his life.

Hope your birthday was totally sweet.

I was chatting with xx today and she posed a question that really got me thinking. Normally, it's a really mundane question that people can answer with ease, but with our group of friends, the question, "How long have you guys been friends?" is interesting because of how many different branches we had, and how they converged. Here's what I know, but please feel free to expound and correct! I'm just going to go with the core group of people, those being: Lio, Bloody, Bean, Stone, Gunwalls, Peps, Pappy, Wils0r, Caniprokis, FlyingTim, and myself. (Sorry, Gatekeeper and some other folks.)

Kindergarten: Bean and I were friends. From what I know, Stone, Gunwalls and FlyingTim were friends around this time, too.

Grade School: I kind of met Pappy around this time, but we weren't really friends. Kinda sorta became friends with Lio at this point. Lio became friends with Stone and co.

Middle School: I met Bloody, and if I remember correctly he was not friendly with Lio, but we all eventually merged. Peps appeared at this point, but I don't remember who he knew. Wils0r and Pappy became part of the group here, too, as I recall.

High School: Peps met Caniprokis through the band program, if what I remember is true.

High school was when we all sort of congealed and absorbed all of those other people we hang out with occasionally, like Lothar and whatnot. The Filth Hole was born, Taco Tuesdays, etc.

Do fill in the blanks!

Sometimes I think you are like Merlin, Pappy - aging backwards - and one day you will be a little boy.