i’ve stopped counting

Since I just get depressed when I talk about America and how it follows neo-cons to spread democracy around the world, I’ll talk about cartoons instead.

There’s a bit of interesting reading on Keith “Fear my booming voice” Olbermann on his MSNBC blog. It’s the latest counterpoint to Dr. James Dobson (of ‘Focus on the Family’ and ‘Everyone Poops but That’s Concentrated Evil Coming Out of You’ fame)’s rant about SpongeBob Squarepants’ sexuality. The conversation boils down to something like this:

Dobson: Be afraid! Schools are teaching acceptance!
Keith: What are you talking about? You want hatred in schools?
Dobson: You’re the devil! GEMÜSE IST GESUND UND NETT…
Keith: You’re scary! Save me, Jebus!

Well, ok. It’s not that over-the-top, but close. The whole thing seems like a healthy mix of some things I find interesting. Those things being:

* What Olbermann will cover (to figure out what he won’t, and maybe why)
* Dobson’s confusing attention-grabbiness
* Dobson’s dislike of the spotlight
* How everybody cherry-picks what to quote

Go to www.google.com.
Type in “worst president ever”, including the quotes.
Click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.”

It takes you right here.

Me and the SQL database are once again on speaking terms, so my webpage should relapse back into the modern age with comments and such fairly soon.

And yes, I know that it’s bad grammar to start a sentence with “Me and __” for two reasons. First because you’re always supposed to list yourself second — something to do with being polite. I don’t feel like being polite to the SQL database and I’m not required to do so as any part of our mutual communications pact. Secondly because it should have said “I” instead of “Me”. Me say screw that - Me not like starting sentences with vowels.

If the blazing inferno of the plane crash was enough to melt steel and bring down the north WTC tower, what was this woman made out of? [link]

This is another example of how I need to be careful in presenting information. I could put a simple sentence like the above in a place where someone might read it, hopefully piquing their curiosity to do some reasarch. Or, I could just go crazy and say something like this:

Holy crap! The government lied about 9/11! Check out this video! OMFG! There was no inferno!!1!!one!!! Your tax dollars and leadership murdered thousands of Americans that day!

I stand behind the statements of either paragraph, by the way. That’s because I’m delusional and easily swayed to believe in conspiracy theories.

Before I randomly downloaded and watched Farenheit 9/11, I was the general stereotype patriotic supporter of what this country is doing. I believed we were fighting the terrorists and making the world safer, and doing the right thing even though it meant our troops risking their lives. I believed the liberals on the left fought for the lower class and minorities and the conservatives on the left fought for the middle and upper classes and that both sides basically worked together in the best interests of the country, with the obvious excesses and loopholes. I believed that our democratic elections did exactly what we were told they did in grade school. I heard the thing about how the winner gets to write the history books, but thought that only really applied to the the American Revolution and the Civil War.

It’s only been a few months since then, and I’m starting to realize it’ll be a while before I get reasonably good at talking about this stuff to other people. At the moment, in under a minute I can make most people think I’m an extreme-left liberal conspiracy maniac who compares with the X-File’s lone gunmen and is likely watched by the FBI. In trying to discuss politics, I may have even convinced a close friend that I’m hateful and not worth talking to about anything important. I suppose some day I’ll have an easier time conveying information important to me without so quickly alienating myself.

[stares at keyboard for ten minutes] This is all too complicated. I’m gonna go watch more Smallville and play Warcraft. As annoying as ganking night elf rogues are, at least they don’t make me feel bad about myself.