Nader's new gonads

Ralph Nader is coming out in favor of gay marriage. That’s an improvement from 1996, when he told Bill Safire that he was “not interested in gonadal politics.” I guess he can see a bandwagon when it speeds past him.

(I’m still not voting for him. Ever.)

We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational

I went into a restaurant to get a hunk o’ steer,
The waitron up an’ sez to me, “We serve no red meat here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:

O it’s low-carb this, an’ low-carb that, ’til you can’t even think;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when your waist begins to shrink,—
Your waist begins to shrink, my boys, your waist begins to shrink,
O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when your waist begins to shrink.

I started up on Atkins again last Tuesday. As of this morning’s weigh-in, I’m down eight pounds. And it’s real weight loss — when I lay on my back with my hands on my belly, there’s a layer of padding that was there a week ago that isn’t there now.

I’ll be able to afford to go back to the gym soon, as money goes. As time goes, well, we’ll see. I will need some kind of exercise.

And here’s the original Kipling poem I’m parodying. (Yeah, you can sort of sing it to The Who’s “Pinball Wizard”.) I haven’t actually had any trouble finding what to eat. There’s a nice (expensive) café next to work; I’ve been bringing cold meat and hard-boiled eggs from home, and buying lettuce, bacon, and other light things at the pay-by-weight salad bar.

Conk! Conk! Conk!

Gary Trudeau, author of Doonesbury, is offering $10,000 to any witness who can definitively corroborate GW Bush’s claim that he served his National Guard duty. For real!

But that’s not what I’m posting about. Go look at that LJ syndication post with the strip, and scroll down to the first comment. Doesn’t phil have one of the best icons ever?