April 14, 2004

• Oh, finally time to replace the pics of my brother as a spirit guide. Life is just too full of amusing moments like that since i got my digi cam.

  Loser of the Week: I usually try not too wax too political, mostly because I am a horrible debater, but I have to say I watched Bush give his congressional address tonight, and I am not impressed. He mostly seemed to be trying to defend himself (and weakly at that) against accusations that he rushed to war with no reason. In fact the best reason He managed to come up with was “well Saddam was definetly a threat and everyone is better off w/o him” No mention of an apology for inventing false info of WMD, no indication of regret for plunging us into this generation’s vietnam, or leaving us with a mess in the middle east that won’t be cleaned up in my lifetime. Merely the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the U.S. making himself look like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar, trying to come up with justification for his actions with crumbs spewing from his mouth.

  

  C is for Cover Up, there’s no W-M-D

  Winner of the Week: However, applause to the American Constitution for guaranteeing citizens (me among them) the right to declaim our leader as an idiot and present him as such on television, even if it is not in our short term best interests. It is exactly that freedom that Bush is defending, if in his own misguided, deceitful, bumbling way. In few other countries could I make this post and be alive the next morning, and for that, I am proud to be an American.

  Other things bugging me this week:

  The premiere of Fox’s new show the Swan. Similar to the shows extreme makeover, and MTV’s I want a famous face, the twist added by Fox “How low can we go” Network is to then hold a contest among the surgically altered ugly ducklings to see who is the prettiest. Basically, to give a whole bunch of women extreme plastic surgery, leaving potential emotional and psychological scars, and then to tell all but one of them, even all we could do wasn’t good enough to make you win a prize. This is sick and wrong! Another disturbingly direct quote, “What we need to do is take your brain, and put it in a whole new body” It is bad enough that the women participating in this show have agreed to this sick little exhibition for our amusement, and even worse that people will watch this, but the person who should really go to hell is the one who thought we should put it on the air. I realize that this post seems as if it is in almost polar opposition to the one I wrote about self-esteem, but I was simply presenting my viewpoint, taken closer to the other extreme of the spectrum. People need accept themselves for who they are, and not be told they are horribly ugly or terribly beautiful. Our society is becoming way fucked up when things like makeovers and nipplegate obscure things like famine and war in the public eye

     

  which do you think is REALLY the bigger threat?

  -Josh

  -that’s right…it’s Justin Timberlake

  “gonna have you nekkid by the end of this post”

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