The Bathtub

Reasonable Doubt: This is the end. For real for real. I think.

I have something to say.  I thought that I could just stop writing a couple weeks ahead of schedule and no one would notice, but now that I've sat on my ass all day after waking up around 1 PM, I guess there are things left unsaid.  I like closure, so I'm gonna give myself some.  There isn't all that much to say, but here it goes.

Reasonable Doubt: The State of the Union

Washington, D.C. has seen better days.  I'm not talking about the education crisis, or the $44.3 million dollar tax scandal, either. No, I mean something much less important to most people, but something the only important thing to some people.

Sports.

People of D.C., our sports are in a pretty dark place right now.

Reasonable Doubt: Not today, little ones

Working on journal
Getting pretty busy here
See:  five, seven, five.

Reasonable Doubt: What Would Hitler Do?

In college I took a some philosophy classes.  I'm not sure I learned anything worth knowing in any of them, but I did learn that for any philosophy class, you only needed to be able to ask and answer two questions to seem knowledgeable about philosophy without sounding like a prick*:

1.  "What would Ghandi do in this situation?"  (Or Jesus, if you somehow find yourself in a non-atheist philosophy class -- just kidding, those don't exist.)

2.  "What would Hitler do in the same situation?"

* = You will probably still sound like a prick.  Only pricks take philosophy.

Reasonable Doubt: Army

I got nothing this week, having only ever heard Brick and Bitches Ain't Shit by this dude, and I used a reference to one of those songs not that long ago.

I'm calling this post Army so I can quickly link to some cool war games.

Virtual NES - Pretty much every nintendo game ever, available online without a download.  You're welcome.

Shock Defense - Am I the only one who loves tower defense?  I can't be, right?  It's completely nerdish, but hey, this shit rocks.

Special Mission - I blame the Japanese translation for this, but it's basically a flash Metal Slug.

D.C. writes "Reasonable Doubt" for The Bathtub on Thursday mornings.  You can e-mail him at dc.bathtub@gmail.com.    

Reasonable Doubt: Best National Anthem Ever?

The last time I included an chat with one of my friends as a post, I think it worked out really well.  It turns out that me and Matt are scraping the bottom of the barrel of human decency semi-regularly, so what ensues is another chat, with emails and other nonsense interspersed.  I swear to you, the only things I've changed from the original chat are for readability's sake (spelling, grammar, and the like), and for anonymity's sake.  Enjoy.

At 2:53, I sent an email to a thread with all of my college buddies.  It includes all of the people who get named in this chat.

Subject:  Best National Anthem Ever?

The entire email was a link to this video:

Reasonable Doubt: You Have to Admit, They Look Really Cool

There are certain guilty pleasures that we all enjoy.  For some it's crappy music that makes white people dance like morons, and for others, it's something I like to call "train wreck television."  It's so bad that you can't look away.  I've seen an episode of The Hills.  Clearly a train wreck.  I would also count Maui Fever, Laguna Beach, Newport Harbor in this category.  (MTV, please, grow some shame!)  And for Christsake people, do not walk around bragging about loving these programs.  They're called guilty pleasures, not "I'm a waste of space and proud of it" pleasures.  I never counted any of those programs among my guilty pleasures, but there was one train wreck that I actually followed for a season (or should I say cycle)...

Reasonable Doubt: Jerome's Free Law Clinic Is In Session

Note: This is a special Internet Potato version of Reasonable Doubt wherein Jerome revisits every theme in the last shount.  Also, please do not follow his legal advice.

In taking over for D.C. this week, I thought I'd offer a service to Bathtubbers everywhere who are having difficulty with this or that legal scenario.  It is time to give something back.  Below are 100% real legal questions that Tubbers have sent D.C. over the past several months, but he has had the audacity to ignore.

Fortunately, each one of the questions touches on two or more themes eligible for Internet Potato--in fact, they cover them all exactly once. 

Now please, step into my office, as I work my Jeromian magic to get you out of legal jams.

Reasonable Doubt: I Find Him Awesome by a Preponderance of the Evidence

On Monday, Lauren linked to the list of famous alcohol abstainers. Trying to squeeze blood from the stone, she did her thing over on the LMNOP (which looks very festive, I must say), and found the link of famous drinkers from wikipedia. 

(Sorry for all the mid-sentence links.  You all caught up?  Good.)

I browsed the drinkers, and noticed one glaring omission from the sports list, whom I then added:

Wade Boggs - American baseball player. It is rumored that Boggs once drank 64 beers on a cross-country flight.

Reasonable Doubt: 99 Problems but a Pitch Ain't One

Hit me.

So, everyone expects me to write about baseball.  Fine.  I wrote this on Sunday after the last Nationals game at RFK.  Not having a place to post it, Andrea helped out with space. 

"Nationals Bid Optimistic Farewell to RFK"

Seeing as I already wrote that, and I did choose the weekly theme, today you guys get a extra special D.C. double post day!  Rejoice and be glad!