Kitaen Still Friends With The Husband She Beat With A Shoe

Labels: headlines, idiots

I'm finally fed up. I can't even believe that this is what the media is making a big deal out of. This feels below even them, who seem to make a big deal out of the smallest, most meaningless things.

And guess what this is distracting everyone from? The fact that McCain hasn't mentioned a policy, not one single policy, that he has.

The fact that Bush and McCain are giving the same speeches.

The fact that Sarah Palin is in a bunker somewhere preparing for an interview with Charles Gibson, and during this time, no one's allowed to talk to her. For fuck's sake, this woman could be president.

How about Palin's church ties?

How about Troopergate?

How about the fact that a "fiscal Conservative" led her state to its highest budget ever?

You can't cut taxes and spend. It doesn't work. You can't return a tax surplus to the people, then borrow to build a hockey rink.

Forget about the censorship.

The more the media keeps picking at these little things, like whether Obama called Palin a pig or not, the less we hear about things that are important. You know, things like:

- our financial services markets, which are about to fall apart
- our economy, ready to fall with it
- unemployment being way up
- the fact that 45 million people in this country have no healthcare
- the energy crisis

Put this in the face of McCain/Palin campaign and make them answer tough questions. Make them confront how they're different from the crap that we've been fed for the last 8 years. Make them show us exactly how much of a "maverick" McCain's been since 2004.

Labels: idiots, John McCain, politics, Sarah Palin

If you're looking for proof that I've been an idiot my entire life (or at least since high school), look no further than this.

The show: High Above Limbo
The station: Binghamton TV (or "BTV" as the kids called it)
The date: Fall, 1995-ish (or the early part of my sophomore year in college)

Pay special attention to my wardrobe. Flannel and white "Game" hats were like a uniform for me from like 1992 through early 1996, at which time I jettisoned the flannel but kept the hats. And if you're curious as to what I look like now, add about 40 pounds.

The true story of this is that it was almost completely ad libbed. We basically sat down at the news desk, and just started talking. They flipped on the camera and voila. Enjoy (though you probably will not).



[Tip o' the hat to Ryan for uploading these]

Labels: 1990s, Binghamton, idiots, skinny

I started typing about 16 different jokes for this article, but there's no one single punchline that does this justice. So I'm just going to cut my favorite quote out, and let you do the reading for yourself:

"It took under one minute of viewing the commercial before Satan entered the boys' minds and they began thinking of a way they could wrap the device around their penises," said one Christian psychologist. "You can't really blame the boys. In reality, turning on a secular television station in a Christian home is like sending Lucifer a personal invitation to hold a picnic in your living room."

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Lucifer picnicking in your living room is only fun if he brings potato salad, not Ab Toner commercials.

Labels: idiots

If you know anything about me, you know that I enjoy following the politics. I've got some pretty strong views on some issues. I'm almost always (and by that I mean, 99.9999999%) vote Democratic. In 1998, when George Pataki got all of the votes in his bid for a second term as Governor of New York, I was one of like 600 people that voted for Peter Vallone. In fact, I've only voted non-Democrat once. That was for Independent Mike Bloomberg in 2005. I've always been glad that I did. Even though he's turned the city into a huge corporation, it's a nice, clean, exciting, fun place to live (albeit expensive), now even more than ever.

Now, I'm even happier. New York is lucky to have him as our mayor, and hopefully his successor in 2009 (he has to leave office because of the Ed Koch-inspired term limits law) will be equally good. His Op-Ed in the New York Times today shows that politicians don't always have to be partisan assholes. Bloomberg's a smart guy, and if he does have national political aspirations, I'd be proud to count myself among his supporters.

Speaking of smart people, here's a link that I meant to post a couple of weeks back before I caught the flu. It's about the continuing stupification of America, and Americans on-going hostility toward knowledge.

It's funny. In 1996, Dennis Miller ranted about Americans hostility toward knowledge, suggesting we live in a country where calling someone "Einstein" is almost always an insult. It's crazy the extent to which that's come true. It's somehow hip to actually not know things. Which is fucking ridiculous on so many levels that it boggles my mind.

Labels: idiots, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, smart people