Some unconnected thoughts.
I was just thinking about how random things have become, and then I ran across this at Aeki Tuesday. Put your iPod or CD changer on random and write down the first 20 tracks that come up. Here’s what my iPod kicked to me:
A Rocket In Dub - “If [...]
Who would have thought that a movie star would be self-centered? Not us—we’re starry-eyed idealists, you see. We actually thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger would follow through on his campaign promises to fix “Kolliefornia” rather than make self-serving statements about his own political future.
Of course, you have to filter the preceding paragraph through a whole lot [...]
“[Nader running for president again is] an ego-centered exercise in futility. [Until the Green Party wins more local elections], wasting its time in races that are unwinnable only detracts from its message, its long-term goals and current accomplishments.” –Larry Barnett, Green Party member and former mayor of Sonoma, California
We all remember his rallying cries from [...]
When you’re ready to get in the trenches of the MP3 battle, what music player do you want by your side as you face down the RIAA? Some pansy little iPod? Hardly!
Well, soldier…we have the MP3 player for you.
AudioBooksForFree.Com (ABFF), the No1 UK online mp3 audio book publishers, introduces the new mp3 portable jukebox. [...]
Can everyone stop talking about “NASCAR dads”? Just about every talking head on television and radio is gabbing about “NASCAR dads” just like they ran on about “soccer moms” during the ‘96 and ‘00 election cycle. “Soccer moms” were actually in play in 2000. Middle class suburban women with kids are often [...]
We love us some Uncle Grambo. But the day that we tuned in for our daily dose of pop culture and saw the list to the right, we knew something had to be done. And quick.
We look the other way when it comes to his fixation with Brit Brit, Amanda Bynes, someone called [...]
For the first time since 1991, a Democrat has picked up a Republican Congressional seat in a special election. Ben Chandler beat Republican Alice Forgy Kerr by 12 points in Kentucky, a state that went overwhelmingly for George W. Bush in 2000.
Two things really jump out about this win:
1) Kerr ran as if she [...]
John Ashcroft’s crackdown on terror is going along just fine, thank you. Never mind that our favorite Crisco-anointed Attorney General is being sued by a federal prosecutor of a “major terrorism case”.
Yes, that’s right. Ashcroft and the Justice Department are being sued by one of their own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino, who [...]
Researchers say that, like, more and more teenagers are, like, saying the word, um, like.
While the total number of uses of the word like may be going up, I don’t think they should be calling it a trend. Though not strictly speaking a teen, my ex probably accounted for much of the rise in [...]
This shouldn’t be news, and the fact that it is news reflects poorly on the state of our society. It shouldn’t take a shocking (and probably illegal) decision of one mayor to give official sanction to two people who want to spend their lives together in the same way that other people can. [...]
