this is what happens next.

If you thought tightly wound puritans complaining about girls in bikinis were a nuisance, wait until PETA mobilizes to protest the doggie-drive thrus.

That's like comparing a squirt gun to a super-soaker.

In most legal circles, it goes down as the Trial of The Century.

Canada, golf, batchelor party and Adam Sandler. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

At that point, his golfing buddies, not surprisingly, started to walk down the fairway toward their respective balls. But Hayter wasn’t done. He teed up a third ball and took a running start before swinging at the ball – your classic Happy Gilmore swing.

I think the plot is finally written for Happy Gilmore II--The Golfer Strikes Back.

There's gotta be a Billy Madison joke in here somewhere.

*And when I say "all-time" I mean this week.

Wow! Two political issues in two days.

I'm speechless.

First it was drug prohibition laws that seem to be ripe for repeal.

Now, new information about nuclear power gaining favor in corners where it was previously opposed.

Is it really possible that 2 political ideas I advocate are gaining enough traction to generate wide-spread political support in the U.S.A? At this pace, I might not be politically homeless much longer.

If you wanna eliminate the War on Terror and the funding sources for Al Qaeda/Taliban bad guys, it would be wise to cripple the petro-economy and opt for the hydrogen economy that nuclear power provides.

If we keep using petroleum, we keep funding terrorist bad guys. The sooner we move away from petroleum, the safer the world becomes. If petro-states in the Middle East lose their oil money, they lose the cash to fund nefarious murder-bombers, substantially diminishing their ability to arm themselves and perpetrate their killings.

Yeah, it's expensive, and yeah, you've got to develop a plan for dealing with the spent fuel, but if we "go nuclear", it creates a suitable power source to develop the hydrogen economy. Cars and trucks (potentially airplanes) could all run on zero-emission hydrogen power fuel cell vehicles.

Look, ma! No carbon emissions (or at least, very few).

Would you rather fight a War on Terror or rack your brain trying to find a desolate chunk of American real estate to stockpile a large wearhouse of spent fuel? I hear the world's biggest building in Everett, WA may no longer be in use in a few more years...

Just think, with a little nuclear power: no more LA smog. No more brown cloud around the base of Mt. Rainier.

Plus, the US is rich in uranium deposits to provide the fuel to run the reactors. No more importing energy from far-flung global locales and/or politically risky/unstable foreign countries.

Win-win-win-win-win.

In a few more decades the only air pollution in America will be all the weed we're smoking.

*Yeah, I know that's not what Sally Field actually said, but it makes for better copy.

Am I actually getting close to be on the winning side of a political issue?

Could my long-running advocacy of free choices for consenting adults be close at hand?

Not since John Anderson ran for President in 1980 (I was 11 years old)have I been this excited about politics!

The times they are a changing.

Mr. Obama, tear down that (cannabis) wall.

According to the head honcho of NORML, 2010 could be a watershed year for marijuana reform laws.

Nobody I vote for ever wins an election. I think the last time I voted for a winner in an election was H.W. Bush in 1988--the first election I was legally allowed to vote. Yeah, I was still learning but it's not like Dukakis was burning up the polls either. Thus my condemnation of the 2 party monopoly.

The momentum is gaining. The idiocy of prohibition laws is slowly being cracked like a hard boiled egg at a body builder's breakfast table.

For all the Debbie Downers who complain about American greed and consumerism killing the planet, look who's leading the world in reduction of carbon emissions...

Europeans always wag the 'shame on you' finger at America, badgering the US to lower it's CO2 emissions.

<Ratify Kyoto you dirty Americans!>

Twenty-seven of the European Union nations managed to cut their CO2 by 1.59 metric tons per country. Meanwhile America and her 50 states cut there output by 3.84 tons. American states = 2.4X better than European countries.

(Go ahead, throw in the major European countries and it's still a 2-to-1 ratio in reduction by the US).

Do as I say, not as I do.

Meanwhile, all the reductions added together don't come close to accounting for China's astronomical increases (311 million metric tons in cuts vs. China's 490 million ton increase).

So it's either time to give up on all the cheaply produced goods from China that find their way to American and European store shelves or start wagging the finger at China and India for their drastic increase in CO2.

Stop scapegoating America.

Just found the following pic whilst zooming the Facebook page of Belleuve's new favorite bikini barista...

If you only learn one thing from this bikini barista story it's this: Don't take cell phone pictures of your friends while pumping gas.

Don't you know a spark from the phone could cause the gas fumes to essplode?

Worthy story about the influence of corporate media on corporate search engines and the predetermined search results you get when you roll the Internet.

BREAKING NEWS...your favorite search engine's results are predicated on payment, not news content.

Hopefully this means newspapers are smart enough to replace some of their lost "classifieds" revenue with new "search engine" revenue and we won't have to hear about politicians stumbling overthemselves to give newspapers taxbreaks so they can continue to exist.

As noted news publisher Eva Perone once said, "Dont cry for me Argentina."

Going, down!!!

How fast are you going to hell for taking a sports souvenier from a little kid at a ball game? Er, hockey game.

That guy is definitely going to hell.

Wild story about MTV and political correctness. Damn, people are sensitive!

Finally somebody is putting this Sarah Palin insanity into perspective. Compliments of Jimmy Fallon and Late night.