Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot

Watch this short clip. And then repeat numerous times. It only gets funnier.

Throw McCain under the train

According to this two week-old story about John McCain on the campaign trail, the old coot "travels Amtrak like everyone else."

"Nice to see you, nice to see you," McCain said to workers and passengers who greeted him on the 8 a.m. high-speed Acela Express train.

So while he's enjoying the convenience and service of inter-city train travel, he's also the one who nearly killed funding for improving the system and has positioned himself as a political enemy of Amtrak.

But Hutchison and pro-Amtrak Democrats Max Cleland of Georgia and John Kerry of Massachusetts had to settle for supporting roles Tuesday as McCain offered an unflattering history lesson about Amtrak, which runs two routes that cross Arizona. (Link)

Here's more on McCain's history of being anti-rail. Maybe next time Amtrak employees (or riders, for that matter) see him on the Acela they should remind him where he is.

Polar bear is a publicity-addicted psycho

You've gotta love the British tabloids. They're even trashier than American ones. But what they do excel at, really, is at turning absurd news items into dry humor. Exhibit A is the Daily Mail's rehashing of a story about a "psychotic" polar bear at the Berlin Zoo.

I especially enjoyed the useful graphic and cutline:

Then and now: Left, Knut as a cuddly baby before his adoring fans, and right, as a grown-up 'publicity-addicted psycho'

Comcast promises to play nice

The world's worst corporation, Comcast, promised it would stop throttling BitTorrent. It complains that 50% of the world's web traffic is tied up in torrents. Maybe so, but since when do ISPs have the right to play traffic cop?

Deep fried craziness

As nutty as Georgia can be sometimes, it often seems like Tennessee, the current home state of my parents in law, also has its share of wide-eyed psychobillies.

Check out this wikipedia page for "Low Tax Looper," one of the most bizarre political characters I've ever heard of.

Charleston and Savannah

Di and I went on vacation last week (it was her school's spring break), so we decided to take another of our famed road trips -- this time through the good ol' cities of Savannah and Charleston.

The trip was great. We stayed in nice places in both cities and really relaxed. We saw a bunch of great stuff: mansions, art galleries, Paula Deen's restaurant, a man with two hooks for hands, some of the best karaoke singers ever, some of the worst karaoke singers ever, enough fried chicken to kill a man, mint juleps, she-crab soup, a pirate, a slave market, a rooftop bar, cobblestone streets and most of the South Carolina countryside (on the drive home we took the straightest route back to Atlanta, which meant 80 straight miles of two-lane roads).

My brother (who turned 28 yesterday) gave me a tiny Flip camera for Christmas, which we made full use of. Here's some video. The first scenes are in Savannah, but the rest of it is us visiting the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston and then wandering the streets.