Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Let's talk idiocy today. For instance, if you are the starting quarterback of the Florida State Seminoles, you want to set a good example. Parking in handicap spaces not just once, but twice, IN THE SAME WEEK, doesn't do that. Now, I go to FSU and while I don't know the man myself, everything I hear is that he has a different girl for every night of the week, and that he is, in the words of numerous people, a "jackass".

Then you've got, in a totally unrelated story, Darrell Issa. You might remember him from such boneheaded political moves as funding the California recall. He did it, ran for governor and realized he was more hated than the governor so he dropped out. Now, $1.6 million later, he is urging voters to vote AGAINST the recall because of the split GOP vote. Someone hit this guy with a clue stick.

And don't get me started (too late, heh), on government idiocy. You have the disgraceful idiocy - digging up old deportation cases under the PATRIOT Act, or the shameful idiocy of keeping funding from foreign clinics that practice abortion, thus leading to their inevitable closure (who will die more - "unborn babies" or really sick people?). But my personal favorite, is the delaying-bad-news-till-Friday idiocy. That's just brilliant - ripped straight out of the pages of "Office Space" guys, good job. Sigh...

Our last bit of idiocy today isn't a person (well, sorta it is but...ah nevermind) but a food. Cheesburger fries. No, not "Cheeseburger and Fries", but cheeseburger fries. As in one food. Yep, the beef industry - clearly not bothered by the massive guts of this country already - are trying to wiggle their way into the "snack food" category by mixing beef and cheese into a fried concotion that looks like a french fry. Ugh, the thought alone makes me sick to my stomach, although clearly, judging by the picture, they seem to have found their target audience...

On to politics, I'm really getting the feeling that the Republicans are more than a little scared by Wesley Clark. They have really begun the smear campaign, clearly aiming to dissuade swing voters by falling back on liberal stereotypes, and getting in some Clinton attacks just for the hell of it. Here's where things get interesting though: by relying on the moderate/swing voters, Bush and company are essentially rallying around a base of voters that may seriously be shrinking. Acceptance of gays in this country is rising dramatically (hence Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), and while I think that in the end this strategy will work for them this time around, its still a very dangerous goal. When you take voters for granted (as Gore did in Tennessee), you put yourself at risk of getting voted out. If it turns out to be Bush/Cheney vs. Dean/Clark (or Clark/Dean), I think that this election will be as close as 2000 was.

Finally, ever wonder how much porn is on the Net? Seems to be around 260 million pages total. I'm a bit skeptical though, because it seems like they just counted how many sites on Google show up with the word "porn" in them. See, I just added this site to Google's index for the word. Porn porn porn. Hehe. The number is still really high I'm sure though.

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