Voting: Free versus Slave States

Voting: Free versus Slave States paints a funny picture.
Why am I not surprised?

Incidentally, yes, I am aware I haven't posted here in, like, forever. I will remedy that shortly.

Tee-hee!

This is mildly amusing, ain't-it?

The bill's come and it's due now

After helping him win the election, the Right are showing W the bill, and he needs to pony up.

Northern lights

I just saw an amazing display of northern lights, right outside my home. Gigantic, greenish-white waves of light streaking through the skies, filling about half the starry globe with a ghostly, evanescent glow. And then, nothing. Just a starry, inky void.

I'm turning into a poet. Better go to bed now, before it gets worse.

Holy shit! This is getting ridiculous!

According to USA Today (where we take real news and make them into easy-to-understand pie charts!), some Texaspharmacist refuses to give out The Pill to his patient and gets away with it.

This is fucking crazy. Says the woman who missed a pill because of the fucktard: "Their job is not to regulate what people take or do. It's just to fill the prescription that was ordered by my physician."

The article keeps on: "Some pharmacists, however, disagree and refuse on moral grounds to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. And states from Rhode Island to Washington have proposed laws that would protect such decisions", it says.

Ri-god-damned-diculous.

And it gets better: some asshat in Madison, WI, not only refused to fill the prescription (which is stupid as it is - do these people think they're doctors?), but "did not transfer it to another pharmacist or return it to the woman."

Wow. I'm speechless.

George W. Bush : Mistaken

George W. Bush : Mistaken: Wow.

If I was your friend, I'd say "I'm very disappointed in you."

Really. If I was your mom, I'd be all "Wait 'till your father gets home!"If I was your girlfriend, I'd go "How could you do this to me?" If I was your priest, I'd be yelling "Repent!"

But I'm not. I'm just the entire world, looking at you with shame, America.

Shame, shame, shame on you.



(at least turnout was almost good)

Election night in the States - Addendum

Well, call me a wuss, but it's past 2AM and I'm going to bed.

CNN's calling Ohio "Too close to call", giving us a tally of GWB-249, JFK-211.
CBS was rather aggressive with their calling states earlier, but have calmed down now. They're giving 249-221, calling Minnesota for Kerry, something CNN hasn't done yet.
NBC gives Ohio to Bush, and still refuses to give either Minnesota or New Hampshire to Kerry, meaning they say it's 269-207.
FOX News says it's 269-221. Well, it's Fox, so, you know.. it doesn't really matter.

Seeya tomorrow!

Election night in the States

Tonight, I'll be watching the Election 2004 coverage, mostly on CNN.

I'll be taking a short break, however, between 10PM and 11PM - that's when Jon Stewart comes out with his Election Night 2004: Prelude to a Recall special. That'll be amazing.

If you didn't go vote, shame on you. If you did, then good.

If you did, and you voted Democrat, then double-plus-good.

Bush Pre-senile Dementia?

This video shows President (or Soon-to-be-former President, depending on which side you're on) over a period of 10 years, and makes a diagnosis of Pre-senile Dementia Video.

Update! It seems I live in Sodom and/or Gomorrah

According to the Daily News Tribune, the Montreal spring break trip is also a "dangerous, unsanctioned and unsupervised sex and booze trip to Canada", filled with "drunken rowdiness" and, two years ago, "a group was kicked out of a hotel after teens threw beer bottles and televisions off the hotel balconies". Kids come back with "frightening stories from nightclubs and strip clubs".

I don't know about the ones in Massachusetts, but our strip clubs aren't scary at all...

I live in Babylon

Fears over drinking put end to high school trip, says the Boston Globe.

So parents are preventing their kids from coming to Montreal, cause they might be drinking? Ha!

I can barely spend a weekend in Montreal when there's a long holiday weekend in Vermont, Massachusetts or New York. Suddenly, the city gets filled with drunken teens, flashing their American money around like we're Cuba or Somalia and it somehow made us respect them more, and it often ends up in small group fights in the streets. Our police doesn't even pretend to care anymore.

Seriously, what do you think the kids do, when they're 19 years old and can't drink? They come to Montreal, where they can, starting at 18.

"We've heard rumors of prostitution, and lax marijuana policy means it's more accessible", said one Boston principal, after getting called by a Montreal journalist. Indeed, those things are true. And that's why your kids come here.

Plus, we've got strippers.

I haven't been posting much here lately

I haven't been posting much here, lately, and it's not for lack of things to say.

Frankly, I haven't had a minute to myself in the last two weeks or so. Between work, midterm, correcting my girlfriend's Master's Thesis, translating medical documents for my mom and sleeping a bit, there's not much time.

Midterms went well. I'm already at the 25-book mark on my list, and that's good. In order to complete the basic requirements, I only need five more between now and December. Score!

I'll try and update more frequently from now on.

New camera!

Finally, I got myself a brand spankin' new, digital camera.

Hooray, w00t, and all that stuff.

It's the Konica Minolta Z3, and I'm pretty happy about it.

You will now be subjected, every day, right here, to a crapload of bad pictures of me, my cat and the asphalt in front of my house.

Or not.

Jon Stewart's Brutal Exchange with CNN Host

This guy is slowly getting to be my all-time media idol.

Really - he's effing awesome!

I hear there's rumors...

I hear there's rumors on the, uh... Internets.

Pulling Back the Curtain

In Pulling Back the Curtain: What a Top Reporter in Baghdad Really Thinks About the War, we get a glimpse of how reporters actually feel about working in Iraq, under those conditions.

Metajournalism at its finest.

Bush's Debate Notes

The Talent Show has the exclusive scribblings we all saw Bush jot down during the debate, this week.

Hey. It's easy. But it's fun.

A Quick Fix

To put it country simple, Earth has a lot of things other folks might want...

Like the whole planet.

And maybe these folks would like a few changes made...

Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...

And room for their way of life.



We've seen this happen before, right in these United States.

Your way of life destroyed the Indian's way of life.

You gave them reservations, didn't you?



But my own position is ticklish:

I'm with the invaders, no use trying to hide that.

And at the same, I disagree with some of the things they are doing.



Oh, we're not united anymore than you are.

Oh, we're not united anymore than you are.



Conservative faction is set on nuclear war as the solution to the, uh,

"personnel problem"; others disagree.



Others disagree.

Others disagree.



I don't claim that my motives are one hundred percent humane.

But I do say, if we can't think up anything quieter and tidier than that...



We aren't all that much better than you Earthlings.



There is no place else to go

The theater is closed



There is no place else to go

The theater is closed



Cut word lines

Cut music lines

Smash the control images

Smash the control machine.



William Burroughs. Pertinent, as always.

This is ridiculously obscenely disgusting

I'm fairly certain I've never seen something quite as horrible as this.

This is the kind of shit that makes me want to puke, for real.

Big time.