It was cute a few years ago when people first started doing it, but now it’s just plain annoying. The compulsion that nearly every site, be it blog or news site, feels that they must make up some April Fool’s gag has done nothing but force me to fly through all of my feed’s articles that have a date of April 1st.
Can’t we just start a new fad where every site sends me a gift around Christmas. I’d prefer that one much more.
I can’t say I fully understand everything that is going on in Tibet, but the fact that journalists have been prohibited from covering the events speaks volumes. Wikileaks.org, however, has posted quite a few photos and videos documenting what has been going on. Powerful stuff.
This year’s election has elicited some pretty interesting emotions from me. The excitement of having a new head of state since W was contractually obligated to claim free agency at the end of the year had me paying attention to the election process far earlier than I normally would (when I would pick up the newspaper the day after the election). At the same time my personal perception of the two political parties have changed over the years. Having been raised by Democrats, it has been quite a shift to my new stance on party preference. In short, I tend to vote for Republicans for local government and Democrats at the national level.
But as the race was whittling down to the three prospects that are present today, I found myself willing to make a change again. The Democratic candidates were increasingly scratching their fingers on my mind’s chalkboard. All I could see was increasing belly-aching from both sides, building a campaign based on pointing out hurt feelings and sour sentiment. Qucikly, McCain was rising to the top of my draft list, and I was convinced I was going to vote Republican for president.
Then this whole Reverend Wright ordeal came about.
This thing is one a levitation system away from becoming an Imperial Probe Droid. Wait until a few seconds into the video when the guy tries to kick it over on its side.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell I’m doing? It’s a compulsion, almost an addiction, but whenever I see a new site pop up I feel obligated to get in as soon as it is available. I don’t know if it is because I want to be sure to get the user name that I want, or if it’s because I don’t want to be on the ass-end of the following conversation:
Cool Dude: Have you heard of
Clueless Dude: Nah. Is it any good?
Cool Dude: (realizing that he has discovered something before someone else) It RULEZ!
Clueless Dude: Sweet! I’ll have to go sign up…
Cool Dude: Sign up to be my friend. I’m F!rstToTheP@rty. I’m easy to find. There’s only me and three only people on there.
Then again, I’m not sure which end is the ass-end there.
I have to say, I for one am not surprised at the ratings for the 2008 Academy Awards. And while there is some truth in the fact that most people have not seen the movies in contention or have very little familiarity with the actors who walked away with the little gold men, I don’t think that’s the primary reason for the fall-off. In fact, it’s been going on for the last few years.
At one point, the Oscars used to be one of the few chances where we, the unwashed masses, had the opportunity to see our favorite stars shed their on-screen personas and give us a glimpse at who they really were. Now, in the day of the interwebs, TMZ and assorted sex-tapes, the illusion is mostly lost on us. With all the red carpet coverage, we are more impressed with how well they clean themselves up, cause we’ve definitely seen the pictures of them going to the grocery store and coming off the airplane and know how much movie magic helps them helps them look like the flawless stars that we once thought they were.
Pretty cool video of frozen waves crashing onto the shore.
http://www.thisismereporting.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3be4f209556518c2fcb5
Over the years my friends and I have often discussed criteria necessary to deem a competition a sport, and even though most of these debates occurred over countless pitchers of beer, we have been able to whittle down our standards to what we believe to be a fairly thorough list of items that must be met to satisfy our scrutiny. First and foremost there is an underlying assumption that physical activity is involved. Not the sweat you get while playing Halo, but the type that results from true physical exertion.
I had to wait a little while to let Michelle Obama’s comments from the other day sink in. Something was bothering me about the whole thing. It was kinda like with the series finale of the Sopranos where I felt I should have recognized something significant at the end, but it just wasn’t formulating in my mind. It was actually pretty humorous to read the initial responses to her statement about her pride in her country. There was everything from her being racist and unpatriotic to the assumption that, until that statement, she has been ashamed of her country (a word she never used). I had my initial reactions, too, but I felt like I couldn’t see what was happening just off screen…and all the answers lay there…
Then I saw Cindy McCain’s response the next day. And it began to make sense.
Just added a link section for all the videos I watch that keep me from doing the important necessary things I must do throughout the day. For now I’m only linking to my YouTube videos, so click over there and check it out. First video up…The Whitest Kids You Know.
There are no words for the hilarity in this sketch.