This has been a productive week here at Fuck Everything. I've come out for Hitler, for NAMBLA, for sex with underage girls, for fantasizing sexually about children, and in one instance, for Arnold Schwarzenegger. It'll be nice to add all that to my already impressive resume.

What will happen next? You'll just have to stay tuned to Fuck Everything for more of the same liberal shit in order to find out.

A Guardian interview with Al Franken.

A little early-90s Russian history on a late Friday afternoon.

Those fuckers over at Megatokyo totally ripped me off. Yesterday, I was talking about the Mainichi and other Japanese news sources, and lo and behold, in Piro's rant today, he's talking about Japanese news sources, including the Mainichi. That's right, the ultra-popular webcomic stole an idea from a 'blog that virtually no one reads and even fewer people care about.

Yeah, I only wish that popular sites I enjoy reading were ripping me off.

Yeah, we'll see. This wouldn't be the first time things have looked up only to go downhill once again.

Also, can someone explain the following quote:

"Good news is when we get gains of 100,000 or 200,000 -- [September's] number could very easily be revised to negative 57,000."

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN!?!?!. How in the hell does a positive increase of 57,000 become a decrease of 57,000? I do not understand their math, mainly because it isn't math - it's just bullshit. Either 57,000 jobs were added or they weren't - how the fuck can that fact be "revised" so heavily? I take it that the 57K is not an absolute number, and is somehow relative. Otherwise, 57,000 could not become -57,000 based on what happens in other months. Or do they commonly go back and check their work, realizing they forgot to propagate a negative sign? I submit that these numbers, and any other numbers we get from analysts and economists, are total fucking nonsense. They don't even deserve partial credit for this crap.

Krugman weighs in on the current scandal.

Just before leaving the house today, I got an interesting e-mail. In it, someone said they liked my 'blog, and asked me to link to their site. Now, typically, when someone sends me an e-mail like this, they're looking to swap links. This person, however, seems to have no such interest, and was merely pandering for a link in the das 'blogs section so that, in their words, they can get more readers. What do I get in exchange? HTML code to remove the blog*spot banner ad without paying.

Now, on one hand, this is flattering. Someone actually thinks that my site is popular enough that they can get some decent hits off of it. Second, I respect someone who is willing to be honest about their intentions and who goes for what they want. On the other hand, this is a pretty shitty way to go about things. Asking if you can use me for hits while only offering in return a solution to something I never considered a problem (the banner ad)? It's a nice gesture, but there's not even an offer to link back to my shitty site. How big of a whore do you think I am?

Now, maybe this guy didn't realize he was being kind of an asshole about it, in which case I'm definitely being an asshole for posting about it. But since being an asshole is what Fuck Everything is all about, we trudge forward.

It's okay... Even if this is true, Arnold can just make it go away by saying he'll be "a champion for Jews."

Honestly, though, this is one time I will side with Arnold, and say that this probably is just a smear campaign against him. I sincerely doubt that he actually does approve of what Hitler did. I could be wrong, of course.

I don't care for this type of exploitation, despite the fact that I support those against Arnold. The reason why I find this offensive is because it's so incredibly cheap to say "He said good things about Hitler... He must be evil!" No, Arnold is not evil, just stupid.

Oddly enough, if Arnold actually said that "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it," I have a little bit more respect for him. Why? Because that is a completely valid, grown-up statement. You know what? Hitler did do some impressive things in terms of rallying a nation and making himself a serious front-runner for world domination. The guy was organized and got shit done. In saying that, does it mean one approves of what Hitler did? Fuck no. To paraphrase Bill Maher, it is possible to hold two seemingly conflicting thoughts in your head and still be able to rationally reconcile them.

I most typically hear Hitler referred to as an "evil genius," which is the right statement to make. It acknowledges that someone can be intelligent, yet a huge fucked up asshole all at the same time. Understanding things like that is crucial - just like today, when we need to acknowledge that the terrorists who are trying to kill us are a bunch of smart fuckers, but they are still fuckers. We're in much better shape to combat the enemy if we're willing to first understand the enemy.

People have a hard time dealing with unpleasant truths such as this, because they're afraid that acknowledging those truths will make them sound like a 'Nazi lover' or 'terrorist sympathizer.' They also want everything to be absolute, because when things are just black and white it prevents a whole lot of having to think about tough issues, something Americans don't seem to care for.

"I am prepared to say that anyone who says they admire Hitler shocks the public conscience, because there's nothing about Hitler that warrants admiration, nothing at all." Well, that's offensive to me, because it's just a lame-ass, easy-way-out way of handling things. It's nothing but bullshit inflammatory rhetoric. Attack Arnold for what he is - a shitty choice for governor, and not for some out-of-context statement.

Like I said... They told us so.

A dark day looms.

The battle for new overtime rules takes a new turn.

After figuring out who Frog Girl is last week, I decided to go and find out what manga Thigh-High Girl is from as well. She's from a series called Girls Bravo, and her name is either Meiki or Miharu or both. I was able to find chapter 1 of the first book from this place, but so far that's all I could dig up.

The story looks to fall into the genre I call TBMF - Total Bullshit Male Fantasy. It centers on Yukishi, a boy who is very short and is terrified of girls (I didn't identify with him at all, by the way). His fear of girls is so severe that he has this bad case of the measles that acts up whenever he's around girls.

When getting home one day, he accidentally walks in on his childhood friend/neighbor, Jinny, who is using his family's shower because hers is broken. Somehow he falls into the bath, which somehow ends up transporting him to a different world. A world that, surprise surprise, is populated mostly by women. In fact, this world has the magic ratio of 9:1 for females:males. Naturally, he is instantly an object of desire since penises are in short supply there. After meeting Meiki and finding out he's in another world, a good deal of the first chapter involves him running from all the man-craving women who want to jump his short, measled bones.

The chapter ends with Meiki and Yukishi getting transported back to his world, landing both of them in the bathtub with Jinny.

Naturally, Yukishi is not nervous at all around Meiki, and he doesn't even have his measles outbreaks, so there's the obvious setup for some sort of romance there. In typical TBMF fashion, there's also Jinny, setting up a nice love triangle. And of course, there's that whole world of nothing but eager poon awaiting him on the other side of his bathtub.

Looks like it could be one of those simple-minded yet too cute romantic comedies that I'm a sucker for. If only I can get ahold of more.

Yeah, I'm praying for the Pope. To fucking die already. No, not for the reasons you think. Well, not entirely.

Yes, the Pope is an old, ignorant man, but even I have some sympathy for the guy. I mean, he's fucking old and has bloody Parkinson's, and they force him to be Pope up until his last breath. Talk about barbaric. They should not force anyone as fucked up (in terms of health; they're all gonna be fucked up mentally) to continue doing all that shit until the very end.

At least once he dies, he can finally get some rest and they can install a new ignorant guy to lead the wonderful institution that is the Catholic Church.

Apparently, I am the #1 source (according to Google) for "most offensive joke." Unfortunately, the link to offensive jokes from my April 22nd post on the subject is broken. So, I'll go ahead and add in a few of the most offensive jokes I've ever heard for anyone who comes looking in the future. I didn't make any of these up myself because I am neither this clever nor this sick (well, okay, maybe the sick part).

What's long and hard and fucks old people? Osteoporosis.

What's 18 inches long and makes women scream all night? Crib death.

My girlfriend accused me of being a pedophile the other day, and all I could do was look at her and say "That's an awful big word for an 11-year-old."

One more Get Your War On strip went up a few days ago.

Masturbation euphemism of the week: processing your spent fuel rod.

Courtesy of this week's geek horoscopes over at BBSpot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. How much do you wanna bet that this will turn into a big "I told 'ya so!" for the administration, ignoring the fact that we were told of huge stockpiles of actual weapons exitsed, and that we needed to act because of them. Of course, over time "weapons of mass destruction" has morphed into "weapons of mass destruction programs."

I have a feeling that if weapons are found, it will happen around election time next year. Right around the time Osama and Saddam are arrested. Unless, of course, if they have to play those trump cards early to put out the fire of some other scandal.

Yes, I know I'm being a dumb-ass conspiracy theorist, but don't tell me you couldn't see things going down that way. Like remember when there was that whole shitstorm over the "16 words," and then they killed Uday and Qusay, and the "16 words" issue seemed to mostly go away, just like I predicted on July 22nd? Alright, it hasn't gone away entirely, but people really did seem to not care much about it after that.

You know, I don't care if Arnold was involved in orgies, or if he was/is a regular, every-day womanizer. However, if he's one of those sexual harassment/sexual assault type womanizers, I have definite issues with him. That's in addition to the issues I already have with him because as of yet, I've seen nothing that makes him a viable candidate for governor.

The problem is that for some reason, Arnold can be an asshole prick with no sort of coherent policy for anything, and he's still going to be governor (at this rate, at least). All he has to say is that "I'm going to be a champion for women" without backing it up in any sort of way, and it's magically fine for Californians. Same goes for any other issue. I'm still convinced that those dumb fuckers over there are just going to vote for him because he's famous.

I know that not all Californians are dumb fuckers (of course, if their drivers who show up in my state are any indication...), but there just might be enough of them to make Arnold governor, and that's fucking sad. If he gets elected, I'm going to really hope that California falls into the ocean, because they're going to fucking deserve it.

While we're on the subject of the recall, why is Arianna Huffington so hated? I've gotten lots of Google hits thanks to my mentioning and endorsement of Arianna, and lots of them come in the form of searches for "fuck arianna huffington." My guess is that they aren't looking for something sex-related, either. Then, I'm watching Leno last night, and he's talking about how Arianna dropped out, and there's a whole bunch of cheering. All I can figure is that people hate her because she's A) a woman who B) speaks with an accent but C) isn't a movie star and D) isn't a big fan of "politics as usual" who isn't afraid to say unpopular things. Again, I just think Californians are fucking morons.

Yet another linker to say thanks to: Max over at The Big Electron (is that a Carlin reference?). He, along with the guy who has no life and the pissed off Canuck used my incoherent lolicon and NAMBLA rants as part of interesting discussions of their own, which is great. Here's to more of it in the future.

Just to clarify, the Mainichi Daily News (or Mainichi Shimbun as its known in Japanese) is a regular, daily newspaper over there, and not a tabloid. I think it's a well-respected paper, or at least it's well established since it's been around since the beginning of the Meiji era (circa 1870s). Its WaiWai pages are translations from other publications, and those other publications are weekly tabloid papers published in Japan.

The Mainichi has made me curious as to just how much influence American journalism has had on journalists around the world. When I read the Mainichi's front page, I usually see lots of stories about things like rape, abduction, murder, and other various crimes. It's pretty much the kind of sensationalistic journalism I expect to see here. When I look at the English version of other Japanese news sources, like The Asahi Shimbun or The Japan Times, I don't see as many of these kinds of stories. I wonder if the Mainichi has just picked up on this so-called shock-journalism, or if they just tailor their English page to that kind of reporting since they know so many Westerners will be reading it?

This here is just one reason as to why I could never be in the military. I simply could not do shit like this without at least questioning it.

The other reason why I couldn't be in the military, at least on the combat side of things, is because I'm a coward. I don't give a fuck what you have to say about that, I do not want to be coming home to my mother in a box, especially not for some bullshit war that we shouldn't be fighting. I'm just waiting for us to stir up some real shit, and for them to fire up a draft.

This is yet another thing that most likely makes me look "unpatriotic," which yet again, I don't give a shit about. I was thinking about this whole patriotism thing today, and how I'm not a "clasical" patriot. I think I've developed a new form of patriotsm, which I've come to call Quantum Patriotism. It's definitely less deterministic and more abstruse than the classical side, and it takes some more math to understand. However, it allows me to both hate and love this country at the same time without dissonance, so I'm happy with the system.

Electrical engineers, physicists, and materials people at work.

Woo hoo! I knew all these years of not having a girlfriend would pay off.

"I once thought I had mono for an entire year, but as it turns out, I was just really bored."

I'm sure that it will be money well spent.

Okay, so I'm going to try and calm things down today after yesterday's 'blog post hemorrhage. We'll start out with some big ups to 'bloggers who have recently been caught linking to Fuck Everything.

First up is Purv, and his self-titled release Purv.

Next, we have post-fluoxetine honda encephalitis, run by a guy who, and I may be wrong about this, has a thing for motorcycles.

Sit back as we rant with Bethany, a self-described bitch who has an opinion despite being a woman, which totally turns me on.

Finally, thanks to MISS UNDERPANTS' LAND O' HAPPY for the new front-page link. For anyone who's been reading Fuck Everything long enough (which is maybe one or two people, myself not included), Miss Underpants was the first 'blog that I knew of that ever linked to me, all thanks to my penchant for using the word 'fuck.'

Maureen Dowd's take on the whole White House/CIA operative affair.