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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Pharoh, let my Blogger go

My favorite part about this whole thing? The hearing lasted a whopping five minutes.

Egypt really needs to get its courts under control. With the explosion of these media-circus cases that drag on for minutes and minutes, how will the Egyptian legal system find the time to bury female adulterers up to their necks in the desert and chuck rocks at them? It's a sad state of affairs.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Your Democratic Presidential Contenders: May the least worst win

Here's a handy primer on the individuals that want to be your Democratic nominee for the Office of the President of the United States of America:


Joseph Biden – Senator from Delaware

Pros: Experienced legislator with strong foreign policy credentials, has been in the Presidential spotlight before (88’).

Cons: Makes a John Kerry speech seem concise and to the point. Thinks Barrack Obama is the first clean black person to become a public figure. Winning Delaware is nearly as pivotal to becoming President as carrying Alaska. Didn’t do so hot the last time ran.


Barrack Obama – Senator from Illinois

Pros: Smart, clean, also fresh. Doesn’t wear ties very often. Lack of Washington experience means that he can run as a reform candidate.

Cons: Middle name is Hussein. Lack of Washington experience might mean that he has no idea what the hell he’s doing.


John Edwards – Former Senator from North Carolina

Pros: Is the son of a mill worker or something, has experience as both a Presidential and VP candidate, has good hair.

Cons: Has been totally slacking off since 2004, spending most of his time eating cheetos and watching reruns of the West Wing on Bravo. Still curls up in a corner and weeps when he thinks of the ass kicking Cheney gave him in the 04’ VP debates. May not actually be a Kennedy.


Dennis Kucinich – Congressman from Ohio

Pros: Um…

Cons: He’s f-ing crazy.


Hilary Clinton – Senator from New York

Pros: Raised $300,000 in the time it took me to write this sentence. Her campaign will have an air of inevitability if she does well in the early primaries. Who doesn’t want to see Bubba running around the White House for four or eight years with no responsibilities and a wife too busy bombing stuff to keep track of him?

Cons: Nobody can stand her. Is having a hard time triangulating her stance on the whole Iraq War ‘thing’. May be a cyborg.


Chris Dodd – Senator from Connecticut

Pros: Isn’t Dennis Kucinich.

Cons: Connecticut is no Delaware. Eyebrows don’t match whatever the hell he has on the top of his head.

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Random thoughts with some guy that isn't Jack Handy


- The Super Bowl is barely over, and I’m already thinking about baseball season. The World-Wide Leader reported today that the Twins have signed Justin Morneau to a one year, $4.5 million dollar contract and Yahoo! Sports reported that the Twins are negotiating a potential contract extension with Joe Mauer. That’s the good news. The bad news? The Twins are likely to lose Torii Hunter and Johan Santana at the end of the season, sooner if the Twins are out of the pennant chase and decide to unload them for 30 cents on the dollar. I’d be amazed if they were able to keep one of them. It’s bad enough that they’ll be leaving, but I have this awful feeling that Johan will be moving down batters in pinstripes after he leaves the Twins.

- Speaking of the Super Bowl, when is the NFL going to move this thing to Saturday night? Not only would this improve the game as consumer product, it would also help the United States economically. First, you would have the increased bar revenues that would come from having people stick around the pub after the game instead of fleeing home to guzzle gallons of water and chew Excedrin. Second, you would have a tremendous increase in productivity in the workplace; fewer workers with hangovers, less idle chatter around the water cooler, fewer people squeezing one last drop of football blood from the internets on the company dime. Someone needs to make this happen. I’m looking at you, Terry Tate.

- The Senate. What a bunch of ninnies. These 100 men and women are supposed to be helping to run this country. Right now they’re arguing about whether or not they are going to possibly open debate over a non-binding resolution that may or may not express opposition to the President’s escalation of the Iraq War. Maybe if they actually craft this resolution they could deliver it to someone that has the power to act on its sentiment. If only there were are branch of government that were supposed to serve as a check on the President’s power. Someone that had the authority to somehow take action if they really disagreed with the conduct of the war. Someone that could decline to fund additional troop increases if they felt strongly enough about the matter to really stick out their collective necks. Too bad the framers of the Constitution didn’t think to create a branch of government to serve that function. My 7th grade civics teacher was wrong. Thomas Jefferson was a moron.

- I’m digging on my new PlayStation 3. I’d write some kind of full review, but there is a limit to the level of my inner dork I’m willing to share with the general public. For now I’ll say that the pros include the wireless controller, stunning graphics on a good HD TV, and tremendous potential to introduce some creative and unique games using the system’s superior hardware. For the cons; the initial release didn’t have many great games and the near future doesn’t look any more promising. The built in WiFi is tricky to get working on certain network configurations. Also, the thing was friggin’ expensive. The cost of the system, a game, an extra wireless controller, and the HDMI cable came to more than what I paid for the motorcycle I rode in college. In addition, I’m pretty sure that its causing my electricity use to increase drastically. When I turn on the PS3 it makes a sound like a Ghostbusters proton pack heating up and the lights dim in the house. Energy efficient this sucker is not.

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