Look! It's good news from the public school system!

About 19 percent of schools served french fries to students in 2006, down from 40 percent six years earlier, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The percentage of schools that sold cookies or other high-fat baked goods as part of a fundraiser dropped from 67 percent to 54 percent during the six-year period.

And in nearly half of schools, students can select bottled water instead of sugary drinks from school vending machines or snack bars, up from nearly a third of schools in 2000.

Who gives a shit?

Here's an idea - why don't you take all that nanny-state energy and devote it toward making sure the kids can read & write, instead?

Dumbasses.

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A list of things I wouldn't be willing to do to make you happy:

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Throws like that are the reason I like watching Favre play.

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1 It was magical.

Posted by: Contagion at October 30, 2007 06:13 AM (QQZMi)

2 I saw the replay this morning - it was very impressive...

Posted by: Richmond at October 30, 2007 09:41 AM (UM9dd)

3 So you have time to watch football, but not to post? See how you are....

Posted by: Susie at October 30, 2007 11:26 AM (6dWH+)

4 What a great game!

Posted by: Lynn at October 30, 2007 01:08 PM (GzhjM)

5 Susie - I wasn't watching football. I was watching Brett Favre play football. Whole 'nother animal :-)

Posted by: Harvey at October 30, 2007 05:05 PM (L7a63)

6 Hell, I like ol' Favre as good as the next, and better than most, but Lordy Harvey... you got your nose so far up his Louisianna butt... I ain't sure you can see daylight anymore. Congrats on the win in Loser town... Wanna hit back... my team is the Rams. Have mercy now...

Posted by: RedNeck at October 30, 2007 08:22 PM (zVAJL)

7 It's throws like that that make Denver fans wish their team had a pass defense. Actually, I'm a suffering Dolphins' fan, but I've been rooting for Favre since he was still in college. I'm glad that he's once again playing on a good team.

Posted by: physics geek at November 02, 2007 10:27 AM (MT22W)

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You don't have to reassure me that you still love me. I still feel assured from the first time you ever told me..

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I find your lewd behavior completely inappropriate. Please note that I'm neither complaining nor asking you to stop.

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You are adorable, but not irresistible. I can resist you any time I want to. The fact that I'll never want to is completely irrelevant.

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Neat little 2D flash game version of "Portal".

I gave up at level 9 because the game started moving very slowly. Must have hit a bandwidth chokepoint or a bad piece of code.

That, and my puzzler hurted.

[Hat tip: Twenty Sided]

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Everything you've always wanted can be yours. Just share your dreams with me and I'll help you make them come true.

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When I get an idea that I just can't wait to run with, there's an almost audible "click-buzz" sensation in my brain.

I wish it happened every day, because writing off that always seems to work out particularly well.

Anyway, this is just my way of saying go read my editorial "America Can't Win the 'War on Fire'" at IMAO.

Normally I'd just cross-post it, but in this case, there's WAY too much fun going on in the comments.

Also, you can help me figure out if comment #6 is a sincere guilt trip or clever satire.

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1 Hilarious! Nice job. I think #6 was serious though.

Posted by: Carmen at October 26, 2007 08:32 AM (9VWj+)

2 Brilliant, Harvey. Simply brilliant.

Posted by: Richmond at October 26, 2007 09:27 AM (UxwV+)

3 Ok, that was frick'n funny. I loved comment #89... what a laugh!

Posted by: vw bug at October 26, 2007 02:02 PM (FPOeI)

4 So if I say fire is flaming gay, am I gonna get lambasted here too?

Posted by: shimauma at October 27, 2007 06:51 PM (vV7sA)

5 The only time I bust on commenters here is when they're gratuitously off-topic, they're anonymous, and they personally insult the host.

Posted by: Harvey at October 28, 2007 10:54 AM (L7a63)

6 ... that was hilarious, Harvey... most excellently done....

Posted by: Eric at October 28, 2007 06:22 PM (g02Hg)

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When I fell in love with you, it was because I thought you were perfect. I must've been mistaken, because you just keep getting better.

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My doctor told me that I tested positive for loving you. It's not fatal, but it IS incurable.

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There is no distance so great that our love can't bridge it, yet still there is no distance so small that I don't wish we were even closer.

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Caution: not suitable for people afflicted with taste or decency

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If you could see yourself as I see you, I think you would be pleased at how well your crown matches your throne.

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Right Wing News did another Rightosphere Temperature Check, of which I was a part.

Here's the long version of my answers:

1) SCHIP expansion that was vetoed by Bush.
Oppose - I'd like my health care system to come with a label that says "Now 99 44/100% Government Free!". Anything that doesn't move us from where we are now to that goal goes straight to the dumpster.

2) Law of the Sea treaty.
Oppose - I can't believe this communist-fantasy piece of crap is still around. The whole "if you want to mine the oceans, you have to share the wealth with third-world shithole nations because they CAN'T mine the oceans."

F*** that.

3) Hate crime laws.
Oppose - Crime is crime. Punishing someone more because of his skin color seems like a violation of Equal Protection to me.

4) Gay marriage.
Oppose - Gay marriage has nothing to do with love & commitment, it has to do with health insurance & Social Security benefits.

If you love a man and want to have financial & legal entaglements with him, have a lawyer write up some reciprocal wills & powers of attorney, then refer to yourselves as "married" in public. Same damn thing.

5) Using the following enhanced interrogation techniques on captured foreign terrorists: stress positons, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding.
Support - whatever it takes to win the war.

6) The war on drugs.
Oppose - Prohibition creates more crime, violence, and human misery than it prevents. Anti-drug peer pressure from churches, family members, and social organizations is the correct tool for minimizing drug use, not the brute sledgehammer of law enforcement.

7) Congressional term limits.
Support - I like it better when my lawmakers haven't been in office long enough to develop the connections necessary to game the system. Constant turnover will make Congress weak, confused, and ineffectual, which is how I prefer the people who try to run my life.

Some form of Balanced Budget Amendment.
Oppose - I prefer my government to spend less than it steals in taxes, but you can't write a law that the lawyers on the Hill can't weasel out of. A BBA is an exercise in futility.

9) School vouchers.
Support - I would prefer my school system completely supported by tuitions instead of taxes, but anything that loosens the stranglehold of government control is a step in the right direction.

10) The Missile Defense Program.
Support - I've never met an incoming enemy missile that I wouldn't prefer to have shot down by an American one.

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1 I want to get my comment in before the spammers get here! (Too bad I have nothing more exciting to say than "I agree")

Posted by: Susie at October 22, 2007 05:56 AM (f4vT8)

2 Excellent; now if we only had a Republican candidate* with your sense. *One that had a snowball's chance of winning...

Posted by: pam at October 22, 2007 06:41 AM (l6NIn)

3 I especially enjoy your comments on Congressional term limits.

Posted by: Richmond at October 22, 2007 07:58 AM (oxvqt)

4 Harvey for President 2008!!!!

Posted by: Jerry at October 24, 2007 01:41 AM (t85t6)

5 Nicely done -- I find that I actually agree with you on every one of those points. Now if we can get the damn voters to agree...

Posted by: Ogre at October 25, 2007 10:30 AM (oifEm)

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Why do I love you? For the same reason I breathe - because I could have no life without doing so.

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In my life, I have wanted, wished for, and hoped for many things. In you, I have found them all and more.

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I've always hated books, movies, and TV shows with dystopian, tyrannical, oppressive, and/or post-apocalyptic settings (GATTACA excepted, but only because he beats the system for his own selfish personal reasons, instead of "destroying it in the name of the people" like some nihilistic hippie fantasy). I'm more of a gung-ho, can-do, "Progress! Progress! RAH! RAH! RAH!" kinda guy.

Also note that there's no condescening, sarcastic sneer when I say the word "progress". And yes, I consider insanely rapid technological advancement progress, no matter how many - wait... make that "especially if" - rainforests... and make that "jungles"... have to die in the process.

ANYTHING the has the effect of making human lives longer or more convenient is a blessing in my book.

Meanwhile, Ubu of Mahou Meido Meganekko perfectly sums up my feelings about luddite tech-hating futurist "artists" [THERE'S the sneer quotes] perfectly in this comment at Chizumatic:

If you're going to believe that the future sucks, why read or write about it?

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Some people seek thrills by climbing mountains or jumping out of planes. I don't need to because I can get that feeling just by hearing you whisper my name.

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[Hat tip to Alice]

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