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| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:55 AM |
| Things!!! |
 by Fëanor |
- Google News added a customizing feature! I don't think I'm going to use it myself, but it's still really cool.
- Just got the link to this story from a co-worker. A Lord of the Rings musical, premiering in Canada no less. I just don't know. Will there be a guy in a giant flaming eye costume dancing around on the stage?
- Did you hear about these fake news reports the Bush administration has been putting together? They're basically tax-payer funded propaganda that TV stations are playing as if they're real news. The Government Accountability Office pointed out last month that this was illegal. Last week, as Salon reports, the Bush administration claimed that the GAO is wrong and that their fake news reports are perfectly legal. I particularly like the quote from Comptroller General David Walker on this: "We should not just be seeking to do what's arguably legal. We should be doing what's right." Good point! The question here is not whether this is legal--who cares? The point is, why the hell are you making fake news reports?! There's obviously only one reason--to trick people. They're trying to trick people! For God's sake!
But I guess it's a little late to be asking the Bush administration to do what's right. W's second term is turning out to be even more of a "fuck you" to the rest of the world than the first. I guess he figures now he doesn't even have to worry about getting re-elected, so screw it. The amazing thing to me is that people just don't care. They continue to support him, and they really just don't care what he does. His cronies offer half-assed explanations and excuses, but they don't even seem to be necessary. Everybody is already nodding dully before McClellan even opens his mouth. People trust this administration for some reason. They buy the talking points and the official explanations. It really blows my mind.
- Hey, Kasparov's running for president of Russia in 2008! That's kind of cool.
- Heh. Stupid Halliburton.
- Hey, turns out we're running out of oil. Who knew? Of course, Bush's typically simplistic, brutal, short-sighted solution to this problem is to get permission to go drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You dumb-ass. That is no solution. It's obviously time to start looking at new fuel technologies.
- I like bullet points.
- I feel kind of stupid even weighing in on this, but it's starting to look to me like Michael Jackson might actually be innocent. That kid and his family are sounding pretty suspicious. Don't get me wrong, I still think Jackson is a whacked out weirdo, but he may not have done this particular whacked out, creepy thing.
I still can't believe he almost got fined and arrested last week for not showing up to court on time, and when he finally came in late, he was wearing his pajamas. He came late to his molestation trial in his pajamas! How do you do that? How do your friends and your lawyers let you do that? You're on trial, for God's sake! Pull your damn self together and get to court on time in your damn clothes! How hard is that?
- Hey, check this out (try to ignore all the broken image tags). You can see hockey (that's the one on ice, with the puck) for cheap, and support a good charity. Pretty cool. I'd totally go, if I didn't already have something scheduled that afternoon/evening.
- We put in an offer on a condo, btw. It sounds like six other people did, too, though. At least that would seem to suggest that it's a decent place! Anyway, wish us luck.
- Okay, I guess I'm done now. Have a nice rest of your day.
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