A Terrible Burden or Hardly Funny First, I want to apologize for bringing the word "Iraq" to Musing. I never wanted to see it happen either, but the article below took me to a new level of "speechlessly pissed off" that I didn't even know existed. Allow me to direct your attention to the following address. Enjoy the words of our glorious vice-president before you continue reading. Finished? Disgusted? I hope so. Let me repeat my favorite part: "We never had the burden of proof," he said, adding that it had been up to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to prove to the world that he didn't have such weapons. Are you fucking kidding me? The burden of proof? If that's how the Bush Administration is going to try to convince us that we weren't misled on issues about the war in Iraq, then it's a miracle that people haven't shown up with pitchforks and Molotov cocktails at the front gates of the White House. I don't even know what...
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Learning How To Spell Fiance or Maybe You'll Even Be Invited For a guy, the hardest part of The Whole Engagement Thing is buying The Ring. You don't buy a ring unless you have decided to take the relationship all the way to The Next Level. Yet, as someone has been telling me for weeks, there's still something very magical about putting The Ring on her finger and hearing her return that "yes." Even if she didn't wait for The Question to cross my lips. Yup. She said yes. I'm still reeling, too.
Attention Rev. Kieran McHugh or This Makes Me Appreciate My Fan Base Even More How many of you have heard/read about this ? [Thanks to /. for first bringing this to my attention.] Are you serious, Reverend? I hope your students stage such a revolt that you think your students have been possessed, although it sounds like your already might be given to that inclination. Giving you the benefit of the doubt in regards to your intentions of saving your students from obscene advances by sexual predators, your response is still of equal but opposite obscenity. Typically, the thought of the ACLU makes me shudder, but in this scenario I would gladly bring the ACLU to your doorstep to give you a legal slap across the face. Let me put this situation in your terms. Let's say I'm the President of the United States. One day, I decide that God isn't a safe topic anymore. Religion gets people all excited, even violent sometimes. Best to just shut down all conversation about God/Yah...
The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time or Re-re-re-re-reading Pays Off Ahhhh, the Age-old question: "Who killed Asmodean?" Give me your thoughts on this. Four of the Forsaken were plotting together during TFoH - Lanfear, Graendal, Sammael, and Rahvin. TFoH, pg 390: "He will concentrate on you, Sammael," [Rahvin] said in a deep voice. "If need be, one close to him will die, plainly at your order. He will come for you. And while he is fixed on you alone, the three of us, linked, will take him." Rahvin was balefired in Caemlyn before Asmo died, so he's out. Sammael was waiting in Illian, expecting Rand to come charging across the continent to kill him. Although it seems possible that Sammy could have Traveled to Cairhien when he learned of Rahvin's death to deal with Asmo, RJ ruled out this possibility at a book signing a couple of years ago. Lanfear was in Cairhien, but had just fallen through the doors into Finnland. Supposedly, the killer i...
You Will Continue to be Disappointed or Never Hurts to See My Stat Counter Go Up For Nothing Yes, I still write here. No, I haven't written here in a while. Yes, I will make at least one serious entry here this month. No, it probably won't be terribly soon. Yes, this entry might count. No, not really. In the meantime, go listen to Elbow . If you know what good music sounds like, your ears will hear this and have an orgasm. Try to clean up before your mother sees you like that.
What Did You Expect? or When You Play With Fire... Feeling sorry for all of the people in New Orleans? Not me. What bunch of whiney morons. "Oh no, our city is flooding, save us!" You know, your city wouldn't have flooded nearly so badly if you'd built it somewhere else, say, above sea level . I'd love to take a multi-million dollar yacht and boat around the "streets" of the city, blaring DMB's "Don't Drink the Water" at the people huddled on the rooftops. Unfortunately, we the taxpayers are going to be paying for every idiot who decided to live at the bottom of the empty pool that was New Orleans. Money for troops, money for buildings, money for food, money for medicine - you can bet that more people have never been fined for the stupidity of others than now. I've never seen people more surprised to see water in a pool in my life. I'd actually give money to Live 8 before I'd voluntarily give money to help those peopl...
As Another Year Begins or The Crickets Are Coming Through The Wall Just for once, I wish this school would surprise me...in a positive way. Alas, I move upstairs for more space and have to trade off the semi-sound quality of my walls downstairs for ones that are allowing crickets to infest my room. I know St. Francis was really into animals, but this is gross. In other more interesting and less repulsive news, Sarah and I celebrate three years together today. I would advise Indy residents to avoid using 465 on the north side, since the parade will by marching down most of the eastbound lane from 465/86th to 465/Michigan early this afternoon. The parade route will be followed by none other than Willard Scott himself (who I'm beginning to think will one day be put into a giant jar of Smuckers preserves for posterity). Plan your day accordingly. Sorry if that ended up being repulsive after all. Now NASA is trying to steal my ideas for nanotechnology. I won't sue as long as I...