I rail on conservatives and Republicans all the time, but the Democrats can be just as dirty.

Look, guys, you can't enact legislation that's desiged to fight the evils of soft money, and then come up with clever schemes to raise soft money. I dunno, kinda seems like a credibility issue.

It's pretty clear that we need some balance back in this country. Republican president, Republican House, Republican Senate. Some have said that the campaign finance reforms that are now being shat upon will just hurt the Democrats and their chances of bringing that balance. You know what I say? Fuck 'em. You can't have an un-level playing field. Furthermore, if the Democrats would just get their shit together, orgranize, and put forth a united front against the Republicans, maybe they wouldn't have to be looking for ways to circumvent laws that they wanted in place.

Also, I know that talking about bringing "balance" just by strengthening the Democrats is a shaky notion at best, with how similar these two parties behave. The thing is, if the 'crats got it together and actually started acting like an opposition party, we would have some balance. Christ, anything at this point that removes or effectively counters Bush.

Yup, we need more foreigners to come over here and fuck with people like that.

You know, I thought $7 billion was quite a bit of money for putting out fires. Don't worry, though, I have no doubts in my mind that Halliburton (or more specifically, I believe, a Halliburton subsidiary) getting big contracts like this has nothing to do with the fact that Cheney is their ex-CEO.

This contract isn't new news, but I've had it with this bullshit. Time to send Rogue Squad after these Halliburton Cheney Bush Fuckers.

Yeah, this is the exact kind of shit that David Cross was talking about. Fucking nonsense like this should be illegal.

Good, this is how it fucking should be.

A couple of side notes. First off, skyboxes in a strip club. Only in Vegas!

Second, how do you get to be a "gambling professor" at an actual University? UNLV is real, right? Only in Vegas!

Thirdly, am I going to be the only one walking into Treasure Island, now known as "TI", asking where my calculator is? Probably.

And finally, if you "would rather not see scantily dressed women", DON'T FUCKING BRING YOUR KIDS TO VEGAS. Anybody who thinks Vegas should keep the family image should be murdered in front of their children. Now that's family entertainment!

Well, like I've said - if you're going to form a shitty pop group based on a gimmick, make it a fucking good gimmick.

I don't know if you'll find me agreeing with teenage girls all that often, but Michelle is right on in saying that tATu is "a good thing that had to happen". Don't you think the world would be a much happier place if a pair of schoolgirls showed up in uniform periodically and started making out?

Finally some news from the Asian region that isn't about SARS or North Korea. And it's even some good news!

If you have a lot of time to kill, you can read the recently unsealed transcripts of the McCarthy hearings.

This link comes courtesy of BBspot.

Yeah, but why are women in science still so damn ugly?

That wasn't nice, I know. I'm making a broad generalization, or a generalization about broads. And being a shallow prick; bonus points for that. In all seriousness, this is nice, because we really do need more women in science and engineering, even if they aren't pretty.

Even in slow times, we can make fun of software people.

Okay, these aren't really "software people" like the codemonkeys who hack the Linux kernel or write code for Office. These are embedded systems programmers, who have to deal with different kinds of challenges from regular software engineers. But you've still gotta yell at someone. Spacecraft control falls under the category of a hard real-time system - where if the system fails, people can die. Sounds like someone may not have spent enough time testing this shit out before it was deployed.

Hey, wasn't the war in Iraq supposed to scare everyone shitless so they would do what we told them to? Uh-oh.

Apparently, the whole world revolves around me after all. Specifically, it revolves around me being employed, because once things started ramping down with my job, stuff stopped happening. It seems like there has been next to nothing to complain about.

Hey lady, if he poisoned a bunch of people, he wasn't a "nice fellow."

Anyway, while I'm in the midst of being positive, let's see if I can find any other way to stifle hope for the day.

Oh yeah, I had some more thoughts on that online dating shit. Apparently, that's become the target for today. Another reason why it's all a waste of time is because, in the end, so many people will let shallow shit be the deal breaker. I guess I'm not really attacking people on this one; we're all shallow to some degree. The thing is, I fucking kick ass. But it doesn't matter how much cool shit I post on my interests and personality on those fucking matchmaking sites, because all I have to do is post a picture, or create a one-line ad that says "I'm 5'3"", and it's all over.

So I've signed up for one of those online matchmaking services before, and it's been completely useless. I've gotten one e-mail from someone before, and they (not surprisingly) turned out to be a spammer. After reading that article, I went ahead and made a token effort to sign up with another one. But you know what? I'm still gonna die alone, so there's 15 more minutes wasted. Hey, where'd I put my sleeping pills?

Being an engineer, I'm for technology and all, but do they have to take the fun and mystery out of everything?

Online dating takes away the "sting of face-to-face rejection"? C'mon, I wouldn't have a decimated self-esteem without that. It allows you to search millions of users at the touch of a button? That saves time, which takes all the fun out of trying to balance what was, until last Wednesday, a busy schedule. And it gives us the "bar experience on steroids" without all the drunken assholes? Where's the fun in that?

Wait, what the fuck am I talking about? This online dating thing is fuckin' great.

More bullshit posturing. This Toby Keith Mentality (TKM) really needs to stop.

This is fucking great.

Yeah, it serves as a powerful message, alright. North Korea has seen it as a message indicating to them that they need things like nuclear weapons to defend themselves should we ever attack them.

The bullshit macho posturing has gotten out of hand, and people like Rummy are well on their way to getting us all killed. Saying shit like "Syria has to realize..." and using phrases like "behavior modification" are just fucked up, and not helping things.

Remember when we were going to be greeted with open arms as liberators? God, that was great, being lied to.

Dude, if Monty Python's pissed at you, you must be doing something wrong. Okay, one guy from Monty Python, but still. Close enough.

A Conservative hypocrite? Oh my!

Ha ha ha! Guess what? Slashdot linked that story about the RIAA's anti-piracy efforts. But you know what? I got my link up first. Wooo hoo! Fuck you, Slashfuckers! I rule the net, with my, like, approximately two readers, to your millions! Eat me.

Seriously, though, "getting the scoop" or "exclusives" are bullshit, and always have been, since everyone else is going to have the story in like another five seconds anyway. But seriously, though, Slashdot sucks, and I kick ass.

Yup, we're never going to get serious campaign finanace reform.

If this doesn't piss you off, I don't know what will. The RIAA and the labels it represents shouldn't get to be judge, jury, and executioner. I dunno, could be wrong, but I thought we had this thing called "due process" in this country. Seems like we have a tenet of "innocent until proven guilty" laying around here somewhere that this shits all over, although maybe I have that backwards.