The Supreme Court...

The Supreme Court is one of the things that makes our government the bestest of them all. They get over like 3 bazillion appeals every year, but they only choose a few that are the most important to actually look at. I imagine that it is a very stressful very everyone involved.

Imagine with me for minute.

After years of research, preparation, and appeals, you are finally up to the Supreme Court. As you stand before the large doors that lead into the courtroom, you feel nervous, tense, and anxious. Maybe you even feel like crying. I don’t know. I’m not you.

You slowly open the doors. Your heart starts pounding. Thump thump. Thump thump. Then, out of nowhere, you hear a baby laugh. You look up. There, at the bench, sit 9 babies all dressed in black robes. “Hey, what’s going on here…” you say. Right then, Chief Justice Roberts pokes his head around the corner. “April Fools!” He shouts. “But it’s November,” you exclaim.

“You should have seen the look on your face. You were all like ‘Whaaaa???’” Roberts says as he swaps places with the baby in his seat, “We got you good.”

“Haha! You sure did. I was like, ‘seriously? A bunch of babies are going to be ruling on my case?’”

Everyone is laughing now. The mood in the room is now very jovial and friendly—the perfect environment for discussing the Constitution.

This is what the Supreme Court should be doing! They are way too serious all the time. In their picture, like 2 of them are smiling. I think the use of practical jokes would help with their image of just being a bunch of grumpy old people. Instead of headlines like “Drug Makers Win Two Supreme Court Decisions”, we could have headlines like, “Whoopee cushion goes off as Justice Scalia sits down; Giggling heard from Justice Elena Kagan”.

“Justice Stephen Breyer wears fake mustache as he reads decision on death penalty.”

I just think there could be some room for improvement. That's all I'm trying to say.

Dragon Attacks...

I've had a lot of down time this summer. Google emails me every day to remind me that I have nothing on my calendar. Mostly, I use this extra time for extra eating and sleeping. Sometimes though, I try using it for thinking. I usually start by trying to think of something profound. So profound that if I wrote it down, it would get in into the New Yorker or something. This type of thinking can last upwards of 40 or 50 seconds. Today, however, it did not last that long. As I sat in my thinking chair and looked out the window, I was quickly distracted by the realization that I am not prepared for a dragon attack. At all.

This worries me. My house is in the middle of a field with very little cover. There are some trees, but those would hardly stop any dragons.

My house is just begging for a dragon attack.

I immediately jumped onto the Interwebs and started looking for information. After extensive searching--2 minutes--I found nothing! are people not worried about this? Does our government even have a strategy on how to defend the nation from a widespread dragon invasion? I sure hope they do. Some of us remember what happened in Reign of Fire. Being unprepared can lead to having to fight dragons who will kill you for a long time.

Will we let this happen to us?

So I don't know about you, but I am going to do everything I can to prepare myself. I want to be able to hold my own in a dragon fight. I'm not quite sure what that involves yet, but I am going to find out everything I can. But so far, this is all I can find.

Hopefully we won't have to defend ourselves against dragons. But you never know. According to ChaCha, the chances of being attacked by a dragon is 1/50 and something about Chinese Water Dragons living near streams.

I'll leave you on this note:

Hello Again...

Well, it’s been almost a year since I last posted here. That’s a long time. But I have decided to start using this blog again. I updated the graphics/images so it’s pretty to look at—you’re welcome. 

I’m excited. Some of you are as well! Some of you are saying, “Yes! I have been checking this blog every day for the last 324 (I figured that out in my head) days waiting for an update. This could be the single greatest day of my life.” To those people I say, “Aww, you’re too kind. You were always my favorite. Thank you. Smiley face emoticon.” Others of you are saying, “Whyyyyyyyyyy!!! For the love of humanity why! I was so happy when you weren’t polluting the Internet with every little thought that came to your head!” To those people I say, “Whoa! Geez! You just used a lot of words there! No, I don’t know what they all mean, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t all nice and I don’t really appreciate that. Thanks jerk. Angry face emoticon.” Hopefully you’re with the first group of people. Right? Right?? Why aren’t you answering me???

I’ll try to keep my posts relatively short. Nothing is worse than having to read. You know what they say, “The less you have to read is good because that’s less reading for you.” So you can look forward to all the stuff I’m going to write here! Can’t wait? Check out the archives. There’s stuff on here from 1952! I mean 2010! Boy was that a long time ago.

You may also be interested in my other blog Sam’s Bricks. Sam’s Bricks is all about my LEGO stuff. It’s had some glowing reviews. The New York Times said “It’s pretty okay!” By New York Times, I mean it was just some guy, and by some guy, I mean me. So be sure to check it out! Hopefully you won’t regret it.

I will leave you with this one quick thought: Cardboard boxes are just plain awesome. There is so much you can do with them! Comment with your favorite things to do with cardboard boxes!