Mmmmm...profit

So what brought the Europeans to the New World? Money, money, money, money. So it begins.

What the hey?

Coming back from lunch today I saw the strangest thing. I saw a very old lady pulled up to the outside bookdrop. She was driving one of those almost-extinct compact Ford cars from the seventies. The windows were dirty and the car was unwashed in only the way a very old lady or a college student would keep a car. As she pulled away from the bookdrop I saw on the back bumper of her car a faded "Perot for President" bumper sticker. When I entered the library I told everyone I saw about the old lady with the "Perot for President" bumper sticker. I think she may have come through a wormhole. Maybe if I had ran across the parking lot and caught up with her I could have given her some stock tips and when she returned to her own time she could have invested wisely and eventually bought a Focus.

They forgot something last night

Did you notice last night that the environment was not mentioned once during the presidential debate? What's up with that? We have a president whose attitude toward global warming is to advise the world to war short pants but when we have stories like this one out there I can't believe the moderator did not bring up the environment. I guess poisoned air and water is not a domestic issue.

Something out of nothing

I see the Bush camp is trying to drum up controversey because John Kerry made a harmless reference to Dick Cheney's rug-munching daughter when he was asked whether or not homosexuality was a choice. D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E.

Hey, if you really want to be offended why not be offended by the fact that such labels exist. As long as two men that are running for president can stand in front of the people of this country and seriously state that marriage is between a man and a woman we got bigger things to worry about that hot lesbian action during a presidential debate.

Amen, brother man

This is from Tom Tomorrow's site: "Memo to network executives: we don't need your exit polling or your projected winners, because we've already got a system in place to determine the outcome of the election.

It's called voting.

See, what you do is, you shut up and wait until the votes are counted and--voila--you find out who won. It's just that simple."

Thank god someone else thinks this way. I have always thought it was wrong for the news networks to post partial counts and exit polls from the east coast before the polls on the west coast closed. If the polls close at 7 pm in California then let the networks speculate their asses off at that point and let them keep silent for a few hours once a year. Is that too much to ask?

Lawd Jesus, He'p us

Just in case you aren't completely convinced this guy is not only unfit for the office he holds but also unworthy of anything but our contempt I offer this: "Bush has a history of addressing the Christian right in code. In the Sept. 17 Washington Post, Alan Cooperman pointed out many phrases Bush has used to deliver a religious message over the heads of plodding secular humanists like me. "Culture of life," Cooperman reported, means "abortion is murder." Bush used the phrase in an Aug. 3 speech to the Knights of Columbus. "Wonder-working power" refers to the power of Christ, though Bush used it in a seemingly secular context ("Yet there's power, wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people") in his 2003 State of the Union address."

Something here seems familiar...

I am currently reading "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth. It's set during the 1940's and instead of Roosevelt getting elected to the presidency for a third time, the anti-semitic and fervent isolationist Charles Lindbergh becomes president.

Hmmm...an ideologically driven right wing president spends his first term creating a very dangerous and divisive climate in the United States. Dang, that sounds familiar to me for some reason.

More NASCAR stuff you don't care about

Professional baseball players have a union. Professional football players have a union. Should not professional racecar drivers have a union?

Grasping at imaginary straws

I guess if you use this logic it's OK to kill that ten-year-old boy next door who you suspect may one day turn out to be a criminal because of his family history and bad upbringing.

The man's a genius

Tom Waits discusses loops in Mojo Magazine: "The trouble with a loop is once your mind realises that it's a loop it stops listening to it, just like you stop looking at the pattern on that tablecloth. There's no reason to continue to stare at that pattern."