Frodo, Keeper of the Ring

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?
Mood:

party time!
Topic: "Film at 11"
Twenty-four years ago tonight, Roger Mudd got stewed to the gills. The long battle to succeed Walter Cronkite had been decided in favor of the other guy. Frodo saw Roger hosting a show on The History Channel just a few weeks ago. He looks just the same. Same suit, same tie, same hair-do, same nasal resonance. The pecker hasn't aged a day.

Dan, on the other hand, looks like a banker. Somebody helps him on and off with his coat, his pupils are constantly fully dilated, his dark hair looks like it was trimmed with a lawnmower. I'd swear he is on leave from the "Shady Acres Rest Home." Tonight, I'll bet, Dan Rather got stewed to the gills.

Uncle Walter was on the poop deck of his sailboat when Roger got smashed. Tonight, he popped the cork on that champagne he'd hidden in the refrigerator twenty-four years ago.

Frodo used the remote control to switch the channel to Peter Jennings. And that's the way it was.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Smile When You Say Them Words, Effendi
Mood:

accident prone
Topic: "The Second Amendment"
"Yes, Is this 'Guns to Go-Go'?"
Sure is, right here in Smyrna, Georgia, the Capital of Christian Concealed Weaponry.
"I'd like to place an order to go-go."
Fine Son, what'll ya have?
"Is it still free delivery? I have a coupon for 10% off."
Sure Boy, we have free delivery by college students on their way home from Spring Break. Your coupon is good on your first order over $200,000.
"Excellent. How do I provide you with adequate ID over the telephone?"
Tell you what Boy, just answer the following question. Which President of the NRA, by God, played Moses and that Jew-boy who raced the chariot horses in the movies?
"Uh, George Bush?"
Close enough. May I take your order, please?
"I'd like 150 AK-47's, 300 RPG's, 200 of your best handguns, and 400,000 rounds of ammunition for the handguns?"
Smith & Wesson good enough for them handguns?
"That'd be fine."
You want fries with that?
"No, that should do me for now."
Where would you like that delivery?
"How about care of the Postmaster, Tehran, Iran, 24328?"
No problem.
"How much?"
Hold your horse there Son, I also need to know if you have ever been convicted of a crime here in the USA, or if you are mentally defective?
"No to both."
Fine, that'll be $245,000 with your coupon, and sales tax brings that to $259,700. Now, will that be cash or charge?
"American Express. . ."

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Monday, March 7, 2005

Sittin' by the Side of the Road in the Middle of Nowhere
Mood:

spacey
Topic: "Everyday Miracles"
The grocery check-out line is America's next dinosaur. Scanning your own items will do away with one of our greatest national pastimes--perusing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER while waiting your turn. Frodo particularly enjoys the first person accounts of divine intervention, giving him hope for the political future.
Today Frodo learned that Alfonso Getubig from Cebu City in The Phillipines was thrown overboard in Manila Harbor during a storm in 1994. After an obligatory prayer, Brother Getubig was rescued by two huge sea turtles who rose to the surface and kept him afloat until help arrived.
For this submission Brother Getubig was awarded $200 from the publisher (who was the target of an anthrax attack in the days following 9/11).
Frodo has been searching his memory bank for anything resembling divine intervention at the Shire. The best he could come up with was his dog, Gumbo, who could stand on her front two feet. Maybe, dear reader, you can do better, submit your entry via e-mail to letters@nationalenquirer.com and if you smell pie, look for Michael.

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Sunday, March 6, 2005

"Hobbit May Be Distinct Human Species"
Mood:

surprised
Topic: "Well, Duh!"
Scientists working with imaging computers say the "Hobbit" fossil recently discovered on the Indonesian Island of Flores had brain features that justify its classification as a separate, but tiny, human ancestor. These brain features coincide with physical evidence of advanced behaviors which suggest that an organized society of tiny hunters flourished for millenia at a time when modern humans dominated the planet.
Frodo is thereby scientifically secure in denying any responsibility for the inventions of plastic, the internal combustion engine, Fox News, the Dallas Cowboys, VIOXX, or any descendant named Bush.
However, the "physical evidence of advanced behaviors" may have included a condom. That could, indeed, have been the reason for all the past tense usage above.

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Saturday, March 5, 2005

Frodo Has Found His Candidate for 2008
Mood:

vegas lucky
Topic: "Goodman is Hard to Find"
Mayor Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas, Nevada, may be the penultimate political pharoah. While speaking to a group of students, the Mayor unapologetically identified drinking as one of his hobbies. He added that if he were stranded on a desert island, a bottle of gin would be the one thing he would want with him. "I'm not going to lie to children. I'm not going to say I would take a teddy bear or a Bible or something like that."
Overnight polls revealed an 18 point gain in the Mayor's popularity.

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Friday, March 4, 2005

Why Would Anyone Ask a Politician? Ask an Actuary!
Mood:

bright
Topic: "Social Security Reform"
Edward C. Lane, a retired Actuary, who participated in the project to reform the federal retirement system in the 1980's, has written a partial summary of the impact of a transition to individual accounts;
---Investment risk is transferred to the participant,
---Longevity risk is transferred to the participant,
---Inflation risk is transferred to the participant,
---Late entrants to the workforce lose out,
---Low wage earners lose out,
---Non-working spouses lose out, and
---Transition to individual accounts for those under age 55 will NOT leave older workers in status quo.
He writes, "In summary, individual account plans have their place in retirement planning. But, it needs to be recognized that these plans do not promise benefits of any type. Rather, they focus on the cost of those benefits and the control of that cost. All risks are transferred to the participant, including the ability of the benefit to meet basic needs."
For a complete transcript, see http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?&comment_id=213193

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Thursday, March 3, 2005

63,000 Laptops for Sale On eBay
Mood:

silly
Topic: "Life In A Red State"
Cobb County, Georgia, the land made famous by Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and the Cobb County Board of Education is in the funny papers again. After appeasing the Christian Coalition by adding a sticker to High School Science Textbooks in which the "Theory" of Evolution was denoted as only a "theory," and should be evaluated as such, Georgia's most "well off" County is racing to become the best educational system in the State ranked 49th nationally. How, you ask, will this feat be accomplished?
We're buying every little Mother's Son a computer! A highly portable laptop I might add. An Apple, no less.
What happens if Little Sean loses it?
We'll make each parent buy a $50 Insurance Policy answers our leaders.
Wrong answer. That is illegal under Georgia law.
We'll put tracking devices in each one is the next suggestion.
How much do tracking devices cost?
We'll pay for them by selling them to the students after FOUR years.
And how many of you have a four-year old computer?
Get a grip.
This will make a future edition of the "Fleecing of America." Senator Proxmire, where are you now that we really need you?
How will it all end? Just watch eBay, you'll know.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005

My Heroes Have All Been Jayhawks
Mood:

special
Topic: "Proud I Am"
Today the people of Topeka, Kansas, did something very good. They voted and they said that it was wrong to treat one group of people differently, simply because they are different. The momentum to limit the rights of certain American citizens may have changed.
We are told that the people of Topeka are religious, that they are patriotic, and that they share a common civic pride. This is the community which provided the setting for an an attorney named Thurgood Marshall to argue in Brown v. Board of Education, that it was wrong to discriminate. The voters of this community reminded us all of that fact today.
I would be prouder had it been the voters of Marietta. I have to remind myself that this isn't Kansas, Toto.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Sometimes You Realize You Are Not Alone
Mood:

lyrical
Topic: "Welcome Home, Soldier"
The ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION developed a reader submitted column called "The Vent." The purpose being that readers could submit something, be it humorous, angry, moronic, or whatever, anonymously. It is probably the one aspect of the paper on which all agree, it is regularly funny, entertaining, sometimes heartfelt, and always creative. Following is a submission from todays' paper: "I'm a Vietnam veteran and I'm glad President Carter pardoned those who managed to avoid the draft. About 57,000 of my peers were killed for nothing, a sentiment backed up by former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara himself. Vietnam did not attack the U.S. Neither did Iraq. Freedom was the convenient excuse back then, just as it is today."

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Monday, February 28, 2005

First there was the Earth. . .
Mood:

celebratory
Topic: "In the Beginning"
"Comes the Horseman" begins a trilogy by a Southern author not terribly older than Frodo. His book begins as does this first post. It took the Earth to make the Farmer either necessary or possible. All that is said or that follows from this point is so rooted.

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