Terry McMahon's Awesome Blog

I think it goes without saying that my linking ability is such that you should assume these are entertaining, fascinating and personally illuminating sites. This will be quite the magical journey, promise.

• First off, apparently Greenwich Village has like the world's awesomest Halloween parade. Please look at the official site and help me come up with an idea. You may say I've got a month and a half left, but you know as well as I do I'm going to wake up on October 29th (happy birthday, Mom!) with no idea what to do.

• Good thing America's such a conservative country: with two Supreme Court vacancies, we'll finally be able to overturn Roe v. Wade and pass state and federal laws banning abortion, finally living up to the will of the people. Except, minor detail, America turns out to be pro-choice by about 56-38. [SurveyUSA]

• Turns out last year the New Yorker took a long look at Al Gore's life these days, and it's pretty interesting. The article, I mean, though Al Gore seems to be doing okay. [New Yorker] And check out the song linked from the story.

• Rush Holt, Matt's former congressman in New Jersey, is awesome. How awesome? Well, not only was he a research scientist at Princeton before running off to Congress, but he is the legislative branch's only five-time Jeopardy! champion. So when he tells you what's wrong with teaching intelligent design, you know it's good. My favorite scene goes like this:
  

  Sure, evolution is a theory, just as gravitation is a theory. The mechanisms of evolution are indeed up for debate, just as the details of gravitation and its mathematical relationship with other forces of nature are up for debate. Some people once believed that we are held on the ground by invisible angels above us beating their wings and pushing us against the earth.[TPM Cafe]

• Mike Myers' reaction to the Kanye West Incident a few weeks ago was priceless, not least because this exact kind of incident was the subject of an SNL sketch he did in 1994. Read the transcript.

• You tried so hard to get the suit, only to be so disappointed. Now, finally, a use for Hammer Mario.

• Snopes today is pretty funny: what happens when a company like Experts Exchange wants to register its name as a .com? [Snopes]

• The dumber of the Hurricane Katrina quotes, just so you have them all in one place. [About.com]
  [Side note: Is anyone else a little unnerved by how much original content is on about.com, given how little role they seem to play in the national consciousness? It's all Google/eBay/Yahoo/Amazon, but these guys have been around forever and apparently they write a ton of stuff. What gives?]

• The imminently pay-to-play New York Times Op-Edster John Tierney has a weird yet pretty funny column on what Senate Democrats should ask John Roberts to get him out of his comfort zone. The funniest by far is this:
  

  How would you edit this sentence to make it grammatically correct?: "I swear I ain't never gonna overturn Roe v. Wade." [New York Times]

  Good times.