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12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?

Here’s an interesting thought for the day.
Do you use 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?
I personally try to always use noon or midnight.
But then another question is, if you use midnight, which day does it refer to?
If I say I’m leaving at midnight on Feb. 24, do you meet me around 11:55 on Feb. 24 or Feb. 25. Is it the end of the day I mention or the start of the day I mention?

Bowling as honorable as golf

Eric over at the Daily Funnel, has an interesting post on .
He talks with a bowling coach who says golf and bowling were very honorable in the beginning, but due to a few decisions, both attract different crowds.

Minshew also knows a great deal about the mechanics, physics, biology and philosophy behind bowling, and she writes, which makes her perfect for the Funnel Method. If that sentence seems ridiculous, that’s partly bowling’s own fault. Minshew believes that bowling and golf were equally honorable fifty years ago, but that while golf chose to be elite and expensive, bowling chose to be universal and cheap. Bowling provided house shoes, house balls and bumper lanes. As a result, bowling is often thought of as the working-class semi-sport, and golf brings in billions of dollars in television, advertising and in useless office knick-knacks.

I wonder if similar things can be found in religion and denominations and other areas of life.
When you think of users, I often think of artsy and high-end graphic users with extra money to spend on proprietaryry system.
But in reality, I can do the exact same things on my PC.
In fact, Apple has recently switched to using the chips that PC’s have relied on for years, claiming now the chips can do more in their machines.

Go Kinky

showed the first two episodes of Go Kinky last night.
The show takes a look behind the scenes at run for Texas Governor.
I didn’t get a chance to watch it yet and unfortunately no one’s really blogged on it yet either.
Did anyone catch it?
I Tivo’d it and plan on watching it tonight after I get off work.
Let me know what you thought if you saw it.

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Anti-semantic comics

‘s had an interview with Jewish cartoonist yesterday.
Sandy has introduced a new tactic in the angry debate over cartoons depicting religious figures. He’s launched a contest for the best anti-Semitic cartoon — drawn by a Jew.
Yup, you must be a Jew to enter the contest.
Sandy said he’s gotten some good and interesting comics from Jewish artists.
I have to say, I’m a big fan of anyone who’s willing to make fun of themselves. I think that’s what I love about The Simpsons and King of the Hill.
They make fun of everyone, including me.
What would a political/editorial cartoon say about you?

Abortion Sin Tax

Friday’s tend to bring out off-the-wall and unusual conversation in the office. This afternoon we were talking about school finance, elections and more and some how came up with the idea of funding schools with a tax on abortion.
That might solve our problems for a while. What do you think?
People would be allowed to have their abortions, but would pay a hefty tax to help fund school education.
One of my co-workers suggested the money could even go towards abstinance training in the schools and the campaign slogan could be, “Putting the US back in Fetus.”
Ha.
We had a good time laughing about it. Like I said, its off-the-wall Fridays.