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Penn & Teller on the War on Drugs

Blogging will be virtually non-existent through the weekend as I will be in Stowe, VT snowboarding.

In the meantime, here's an awesome episode of Showtime's Bullshit in which Penn & Teller discuss the absurdities of the war on drugs. Enjoy.

Obama's speech on race.

I really want to write about it, but need a couple days to a) watch it (it's really fucking long), and b) consume commentary about it.

I am not happy about his affiliation with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I think Obama has done the sensible thing up to this point to distance himself from Wright's controversial remarks, but once again this goes on to prove that one can get away with the most extraordinary offenses in this country if you simply acquire the title of "Reverend".

What does piss me off - and I think race is central here - is the double-standard that's played against Obama's association with Reverend Wright, yet no one calls on John McCain to repudiate the litany of offenses spewed from the mouth of the Reverend John Hagee.

File this under things I find funny but shouldn't.

According to a recent report, the most common insult amongst British schoolchildren is "gay", a word I use frequently to describe stuff that sucks. This article does, however, get to the heart of the word's usage and meaning as an insult:

"One reason for this increase in use could be because "gay" has partly lost its sexual connotations among young people, he says. While still pejorative, for the majority of youngsters it has replaced words such as "lame"."

As in when I say things like, "The Eagles are being gay today." or "The fact that we're not allowed to drink at work on Fridays is gay."

My British half does take amusement in the distinctly British insults. Slag? Poof? What the hell does that mean? Gay.

Wolverines

Rumor has it that University of Michigan athletes have been getting it easy on the academic front. You see, they're not the well-educated scholars that attend such prestigious institutes like Penn State. Somehow we still keep losing to these half-wits in football every year, but if we fielded a chess team I bet we'd kick their ass.
I don't know why Michigan is the "Wolverine State". It's not like there are any wolverines south of Alaska. And UM shouldn't be able to grab on to such a cool animal. I mean look at that thing! Wolverines grow up to a weight of 66 lbs and can seriously fuck up a moose! How fucking cool is that!

Google Sky

Slow news day. Wish I had more to say. Lets face it. There's only so much one can talk about hookers and governors.

While downloading Google Earth on to my computer (did I mention I got a new Mac?) I came across this new feature called Google Sky which lets you survey our universe.



More here.