Tom McMahon

Ides of May Eve Ramblings

• Too Busy at work lately.
• Yesterday I signed up for twitter: tommcmahonnet 
• If we were all made of anti-matter, would a spike in the number of babies born in local hospitals predict a power blackout 9 months later? 
• If it's a foregone conclusion the judicial knowledge really doesn't matter and Obama needs to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court, then how about a really big-breasted one? Enormous knockers. Humongous Hooters. During the nomination hearings, a senator could ask the nominee to remove her jacket so he could see her "qualifications". Pretty good idea, eh?

Ramblings

• Since the Swine Flu scare hit, how many people have you heard who are really worried about Global Warming?
• In the very unlikely event that Jayne Mansfield had beat out Dennis Weaver for the role of Marshall Dillon's deputy in Gunsmoke, do you think the CBS censors would have allowed her character's name to be "Chester"? 
• Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey was born a Mormon. 

Christmas Is Just Nine Months Away and Other Ramblings

• "Smoot Hawley" sounds like the name of some guy my Dad grew up with back in Tonica, Illinois.
• I think life in an Australian electrolysis parlor would make a great setting for a sitcom, if only to see how many times and in how many ways the producers would find to use the words "down under". 
• Remember when Smoot Hawley and Pinky Shears put the cannon in the park up on top of the roof of the high school?  
• I was surprised at how much the late Natasha Richardson looks like Anne Meara in some of her photos.  
• Or the time Smoot got drunk and puked in the tuba? 
• It may be too late for a Christmas Baby, but maybe not for a tax deduction. 
• And remember when Smoot dipped all those rabbits in luminous paint and set them loose near the A-Bomb Research Facility? 

I Have Just Two Words For Tomorrow, March 25

Christmas Baby

Notes

• The stock of UltraGlobalMegaCorp (where I work) has gone down 82 percent in the past year.
• Milwaukee had this weird 18-inch lake-effect snowfall down by the airport. Where I live and work a few miles inland it was sunny with absolutely no snow. 
• The weird snowfall was the sort of event that would have triggered a phone call from my Mom, who passed away a year ago. I miss those calls.

Thoughts

• For my Democrat friends: If you ban all tobacco then what are we all going to use for currency in the post-Apocalyptic future that you have planned for us?
• For those same friends: Dow = 6,763. Thanks, guys, for destroying everybody's retirements.
• For my Wisconsin Democrat friends: Governor Doyle isn't even trying to hide when he's proposing legislation solely for the benefit of his trial lawyer buddies, is he? Thanks for that, too.

A Few More Tid-Bits

• Did you ever have the suspicion that St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were really the same person? I mean, have you ever seen them in a room together at the same time? Me neither.
• If you truly believe that your ethnic group is easily mistaken for chimpanzees, isn't that really a self-esteem problem?
• A What-if: If Barack Hussein Obama really were some sort of Islamic Manchurian Candidate sent here by Osama bin Laden to destroy America's economy, could he have done any more damage than the regular old garden-variety Barack Obama has done so far?

Tid-Bits

• Fewer posts lately because I've been very busy at work.
• Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon Missionaries sell Amway? That way if somebody wasn't gung-ho about talking about religion, they could try to interest them in The Business Opportunity.
• The first Sonic Drive-In opened in Milwaukee to-day. My daughters drove down there: a 2 and a half hour wait. So they aborted their mission and went to Culvers.
• Since Tax Evasion is OK now, where does the family of Spiro Agnew go to get his reputation back?
• The Obama supporters in my life have been (strangely?) quiet since his inauguraton. Have you noticed the same thing?
• Sophia Loren's sister is the daughter-in-law of Benito Mussolini.

Weekend Ramblings

• If Barack Obama blew up the world, would the Mainstream Media even report it?
• Be Honest Now: If you had led the kind of life that Ted Kennedy has led, wouldn't you be afraid to die too?
• And One Thing I Don't Understand About Barack Obama's Stimulus Plan: I thought Muslims didn't like Pork.

Tid-Bits

• The Military Paradox: The Generals discuss things privately and the Privates discuss things generally.
• I happened to stumble upon an episode of World's Wildest Police Videos on Telemundo. The Spanish-language overdubbing adds a nice layer of additional action to the show.
• Why aren't the Obama voters in a better mood?
• It would be nice to see the Arizona Cardinals win the Super Bowl, but I'll be amazed if they do.
• I'm amazed now anyway.