YOU CAN’T BE A PORN STAR AND A SENATOR TOO (UNLESS YOU HAVE THE CASH MONEY)

Yr disappointing political headline of the day:



BACKGROUND: Stormy Daniels has been getting more involved in politics recently, and – after finally declaring herself a Republican – toyed with the idea of running against Vitter.

There were some suspicions she wasn’t all that serious – not least about her allegiance with the GOP, if only because her stated reason was the GOP’s recently reported fondness for lesbian bondage nightclubs.

The GOP certainly wasn’t amused, and have explicitly accused Vitter’s Democrat challenger, Rep. Charlie Melancon, of engineering the whole thing. (They also demanded the media apologize for reporting it.)

But then I suppose when yr top incumbent Family Values candidate is most well known for having diaper-play sex with prostitutes, you can’t be expected to have a sense of humor about the idea of running him against a woman who gets paid to have group sex (rather than the other way around).

Either way, Daniels managed to get in a nice parting shot:

"I am not running for the US Senate for the same reason that so many dedicated patriots do not run — I can’t afford it. On this day in particular, we should all take time to reflect on the loss to our country that comes from the sad fact that those who may truly desire to contribute to our society are barred by those who only seek to unjustly profit off it.” 

Which is probably the most accurate statement anyone has said during the Vitter/Melancon campaign so far.

As for having a porn star as a Senator ... well, the jokes write themselves, don’t they?

But of course Daniels would never have won for that reason alone. The Constitution specifically says, “No porn stars or women of easy virtue can run for office”. It’s somewhere next to the part that says “Non-Christians need not apply.”

FUN FACT: Stormy’s filmography includes classic films like Space Nuts, in which she plays Princess Hubba Hubba.



Which makes her as qualified to be a senator as anyone else in the Senate, in my book.

Storm the gates,

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I’LL MARRY YOU AND SHAG YOU AS WE JUMP OFF A CLIFF

So there’s this meme that goes like this:

1) Comment to this and I will give you three people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of the three people I gave you.
4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.

I’ve seen this meme before, and only really agreed to do it just to see which names darkbay  would assign me.

Here they are:

1) Sheri Moon



2) Dita Von Teese



3) Susan Sarandon (left)



And here are my answers:

MARRY: None

Partially because I’d have to explain to my current wife why there’s a new woman living with us, but I realize that’s not in the spirit of the meme. Still, the problem is that I seriously can’t imagine any of them being marriage material – not for me, anyway. Maybe Susan Sarandon, but I’m afraid we’d end up arguing politics all the time.

SHAG: All three. At once.

Well, yes. C’mon. As long as we’re fantasizing that I would be in that kind of opportunity in the first place.

But okay, if I had to pick one, it’d be Dita Von Teese. Because she knows what I like.

THROW OFF A CLIFF: None

I don’t throw people off cliffs. Not even metaphorically. Well, Fox News employees, maybe. Or the judging panel of any reality talent show. But if I had to pick one, I guess I’d go with Sheri Moon, but only because I don’t really know much about her apart from being Mrs Rob Zombie (and no, I’ve never seen any of his films). So I don’t have an opinion on her (apart from the shagging bit).

PRODUCTION NOTE: I cheated, yes. Sorry. I never was good at following instructions. Speaking of which, feel free to ignore Instruction #1. Because you may not be able to deal with the options I give you.

Always a bridesmaid but never a bride,

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IT’S HIP ON THE MOTHERSHIP

Back in the 1970s, Parliament-Funkadelic offered a strange but brilliant mix of funk and science-fiction, with their live shows including a 20-foot “mothership” decked out with flamethrowers and disco balls.

The ship disappeared in 1982 and hasn’t been seen since.

The Washington Post (of all places) has an interesting write-up on the legend of the Mothership and whatever happened to it.

Meanwhile, you can always see it on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube

Swing down sweet chariot,

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GIANT TOYS AND HIGH-TECH TAXIS

That pretty much sums up my trip to Taipei earlier this week.

Here are the toys.

 

And here are the taxis.

 

The back-seat screen on the right is a new thing – about a thousand taxis have been outfitted with these touch-screens that are linked to a wireless network called Wimax (similar to Wi-Fi, but it can cover a whole city instead of yr favorite coffee shop – if you have Clearwire service in yr area, it’s the same thing) and the onboard GPS unit. So you can watch music videos while tracking yr location. Which is handy.

The laptop rig was even more interesting since it was basically an ad hoc set-up – the driver bought a laptop with Wimax built into it and mounted it in the passenger seat. He was running GoogleMaps and a local live TV channel at the time.

It sounds dangerous, I know. But we never even came close to so much as a fender bender, so who am I to be critical of the future?

Anyway, that was pretty much Taipei for me – I spent almost all of it working or sitting through PowerPoints ... which is how I learned that one local Wimax operator tried out wearable Wimax webcams for police who can stream live POV video during crowded events.

The quality was decent. Which is why I think dashboard Web TV is the least of our problems.

And now it’s time to hit the road yet again – first to Singapore, then straight to Shenzhen in mainland China. This will take about a week. Broadcasts may be limited, but will likely be ongoing.

Keep the meter running,

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