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Date Added: 2006-02-27: CartoonsAll across the world, Muslims are showing up by the thousands to protest Danish cartoons. The funny thing is that they aren’t really spending that much of their effort protesting the cartoons themselves. The protests don’t seem to be targeting the author of the cartoons or the newspapers that published them all that much, either. Instead, they’re protesting America and Europe in general. So some Danish cartoonist drew a few caricatures of Muhammad in various unflattering situations and they got published in a newspaper. Big deal, get over it. I’ve seen the cartoons, it’s rather hard to avoid them if you have internet access and e-mail after all. There’s not much too them and they’re not really all that funny, although I suppose they beat reruns of Garfield. This appears to be nothing more than an excuse for the mindless masses to gather together, wave their hands in the air, and scream about things that they don’t really even know much about. Naturally, of course, one of the most common forms protest in these rallies is to chant “Death to America” or for those more polite, “Down with America”. This is perfectly logical, since the great evil beast that is America must surely control all of the published content in Danish newspapers. |
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Date Added: 2006-03-05: Keep Your Politics Out of My EntertainmentLast week I watched one of my usual television shows. It’s one of those shows that are not really very good anymore, but you’ve watched it for so long that you feel obligated to keep watching it out of an obscure sense of loyalty. The show in question is about a group of young doctors and nurses in a busy city hospital. For sake of keeping the show’s identity a secret, we’ll just refer to it as “CR”; short for “Cutting Room”. |
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Date Added: 2006-03-20: There's a Yellow Bird in My YardA little bird from Central America made a big stir in Albuquerque a couple weeks ago when it took up residence in a suburban back yard. The Yellow Grosbeak is rarely seen in the United States and has never before been spotted in New Mexico. The event has bird watchers traveling hundreds and even thousands of miles just to catch a glimpse of the small bird. The event has left bird watchers and scientists alike speculating on what may have caused the bird to travel so far away from its native range. Deforestation, pollution, and urban sprawl are of course popular choices, but I have another idea: Birds fly. |
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Date Added: 2006-04-04: Adios?Nobody seems to like the state of immigration laws these days. More specifically, no one can decide what to do about illegal Mexican Immigrants. The President is currently pushing an immigration reform package that by his own admission contains some rules and regulations that he disagrees with. The Hispanic community in every major city is protesting like you’d expect if they’d all been declared degenerate rapists, and it doesn’t seem like anyone in Congress actually wants to vote for it anyway. So the big question is: What will be done to solve the problem? The answer: Probably nothing that will actually have an impact in any noticeable way. |
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Date Added: 2006-04-09: Privilege Breeds ArroganceCynthia McKinney should be glad that Congress doesn’t meet in Los Angeles. If it did, or if Congressional offices were guarded by the LAPD, she might really have something to complain about. Of course, she might also be complaining from a hospital bed. Do you think Rodney King would have left his I.D. at home? Most people with any common sense will stop when the police ask them to and people who start throwing punches at police officers almost always end up in jail. In fact, two weeks ago I would have said anyone who starts throwing punches at police officers always ends up in jail, but Cynthia McKinney has changed all of that. It seems that if you are a member of Congress with no identification you can assault police officers without getting thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and carted off to jail, and that really isn’t right. |
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Date Added: 2006-04-17: I'm DisappointedSomebody has all my money! Last week the multi-state Powerball Lotto was worth over $200 million and I didn’t win it. How can that possibly be? I was ready to retire, move to a small Caribbean Island and spend my days watching women in bikinis. I had even bought a tropical shirt in anticipation. Yet I didn’t win. Someone else won all my money. |
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Date Added: 2006-04-24: Pull Out the Six-ShooterThe California Legislature is considering a new bill that would require pistol makers to design new firing pins that would mark shell casings in a manner unique to the pistol that fired them. The aim of the bill is to assist police detectives in tracking down the perpetrators of “Gun Crimes.” At first glance, this bill seems rather innocuous and even somewhat technologically interesting. The idea of etching the firing pin of a pistol so that it not only leaves a unique mark, but one that can specifically identify the gun is rather remarkable. However, if you think about it a little bit, you quickly realize that it’s nothing more than another step towards eliminating one of our guaranteed Constitutional rights. In fact, you’ll also realize that the bill won ’t really help law enforcement officers much at all either. It might even help the criminals. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-02: $100 Permission SlipI’m not against drilling for oil in the arctic, but I’m not really for it either. Unlike most of the liberals out there, I don’t think the world will come to an end if we allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, nor to I think the caribou will go extinct. However, unlike many conservatives, I don’t believe oil drilling in the arctic will lower my gas prices anytime soon or make a noticeable impact by the time production begins. Maybe if we’d drilled ten years ago a gallon of gas would be a few cents cheaper now, but we didn’t. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-07: Where am I?Half of the young adults age 18 to 24 in this country can’t locate New York State on a map of the United States. Only 37% can find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. These are the kind of results obtained by a recent National Geographic poll. As disturbing as these results may be, the results themselves are not the most alarming thing. What should alarm and concern everyone is that these people are allowed to vote and they and others like them help decide who our governmental policy makers are. The results of a similar study conducted in 2002 were also remarkably bad, so this not something new. In fact these results probably hold true for a tremendous number of people in our country. |
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Date Added: 2006-05-14: Approve ThisApproval has been a big topic in the news lately. The most common subject associated with approval has been President Bush’s job approval rating. According to the latest polls, which by the way use a sample size of roughly five ten-thousandths of a percent of the U.S. population, the President’s job approval rating is only 31%. This of course is dramatically important since it will be very difficult for him to win re-election if his approval ratings stay so low. What’s that? Oh yeah, he can’t run for re-election anymore. Well, I’m sure the approval rating is important somehow. After all, you can’t go more than a day without some news anchor telling you about it. The President must be very concerned with his approval rating; otherwise it wouldn’t be “news”, would it? |
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