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GO VOTE TOMORROW.
Nov. 6th, 2006 09:03 pmIt turns out that perhaps slang knew something that science is just now getting around to - According to Newscientist, a literal chilling out may help you live longer.
The problem with claiming yourself to be the moral party, as the Republicans should have found out by now, is that your detractors will use any and all excuses to prove you wrong. Including mentioning that the Republican campaign coffers have money from a porn distributor in them. Or that the Yale grades of George W. Bush may be different that the official Yale grades of George W. Bush. Or their judges send a kid to prison for life for a joint and let someone who tested positive for cocaine five times stay out. And, there's the whole bit with the pissing on the Constitution. So why vote against the Republicans? According to the Rude Pundit, the answer is simple: "Fuck Them".
It didn't work for one of the most successful mobsters in history, and it doesn't work for "Dr. Dino", either - Kent Hovind is convicted of tax fraud, his wife on evading reporting requirements. The IRS is not very forgiving in this particular manner. The comments section has a most interesting diatribe that says the trial was a judge enforcing her will on a religious man and punishing him because he's Christian. Another makes a more sane argument that the judge may have been directing the jury on how to consider the case.
Amnesty International strongly requests that Saddam's hanging be reconsidered. Here's a good chance for Iraq to prove that it really does want to be democratic, and go through an impartial appeals process.
There are some good things here, though - torus Go, for example, or an art exhibit of fifty thousand balls hung in a room, that then shimmer when big fans blow on them. The big, big stu-pid thing, however, is an apparatus that forces kids to exercise to play video games. No, not DDR. While I resented it as a kid, being regularly pitched outside to go run around and do stuff was the best exercise I got. Any sort of Calvinball-esque add-on is just helping to keep the exercise going. Imagination makes for great playtimes outdoors.
Anyway, going home so that I can go vote tomorrow - even if you're not thrilled with the candidates, go vote on your ballot initiatives - out here, there are some pretty potentially despicable things that could go through with enough apathy.
The problem with claiming yourself to be the moral party, as the Republicans should have found out by now, is that your detractors will use any and all excuses to prove you wrong. Including mentioning that the Republican campaign coffers have money from a porn distributor in them. Or that the Yale grades of George W. Bush may be different that the official Yale grades of George W. Bush. Or their judges send a kid to prison for life for a joint and let someone who tested positive for cocaine five times stay out. And, there's the whole bit with the pissing on the Constitution. So why vote against the Republicans? According to the Rude Pundit, the answer is simple: "Fuck Them".
It didn't work for one of the most successful mobsters in history, and it doesn't work for "Dr. Dino", either - Kent Hovind is convicted of tax fraud, his wife on evading reporting requirements. The IRS is not very forgiving in this particular manner. The comments section has a most interesting diatribe that says the trial was a judge enforcing her will on a religious man and punishing him because he's Christian. Another makes a more sane argument that the judge may have been directing the jury on how to consider the case.
Amnesty International strongly requests that Saddam's hanging be reconsidered. Here's a good chance for Iraq to prove that it really does want to be democratic, and go through an impartial appeals process.
There are some good things here, though - torus Go, for example, or an art exhibit of fifty thousand balls hung in a room, that then shimmer when big fans blow on them. The big, big stu-pid thing, however, is an apparatus that forces kids to exercise to play video games. No, not DDR. While I resented it as a kid, being regularly pitched outside to go run around and do stuff was the best exercise I got. Any sort of Calvinball-esque add-on is just helping to keep the exercise going. Imagination makes for great playtimes outdoors.
Anyway, going home so that I can go vote tomorrow - even if you're not thrilled with the candidates, go vote on your ballot initiatives - out here, there are some pretty potentially despicable things that could go through with enough apathy.
