Pun Salad

I view Christmas as a concrete wall. And I'm headed toward it at 80 MPH on a ice-covered street in a gasoline truck with no brakes.

Yes, it's only a week away.

• Movie fans will not want to miss Iowahawk's sneak preview of upcoming Hollywood flicks, guaranteed to shake off this year's box office doldrums. Sample:

  Lunch Lady: poignant story of school cook-turned-playground strangler has generated advanced Oscar buzz for star Jennifer Lopez, who reportedly gained 400 pounds, facial tatoos and gum disease for the role.

• The Club for Growth blog has recently been added to the ol' blogroll, as they seem to be on the side of the angels, and have not as yet been caught taking cash from Jack Abramoff. A recent entry points to yet another sad sign of business as usual, disguised in a bill to mint yet another version of those pain-in-the-butt dollar coins:

  The dirty little secret about this bill is that it would force every single vending machine on federal property or on the premises of an entity receiving federal funding to accept these new coins.

  Yes, friends, happily Your Federal Government has solved all the bigger problems than the spectacular unpopularity of dollar coins, and hence now issues decrees concerning the inner workings of vending machines. I note that my own Congressman Jeb Bradley voted for this idiocy. A stern rebuke is on its way via his web page.
• And, via Dartblog: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? The Google knows!