Friday, February 22, 2008

Enough Philosophy - Here's Real Life For a Change

What a weird world we live in.

Two girls, one cup. Enough said there.

But that's not all, folks. Porky can stay backstage for a little longer.

I actually laughed at my worries about grades and making it into med school for a second when I read this article. I guess when and if all my goals in life are shattered like Britney Spears' PR, I can devote all my money from the sperm bank to buying HGH and working a club door in Vegas. I don't think Sin City club owners test like George Mitchell does.

I'm glad the Patriots didn't win the Super Bowl, even more so than before. Turns out, after further investigation, that they might have been taping other teams ever since Belichick became head coach. Assuming it's true, of course, it makes them no better than Barry Bonds or Marion Jones. Asterisk, anyone?

This is just gross. The guy in the article should meet Marco Fiorito. I think they might have some common interests to work out.

In other news, Hillary and Barack debated at campus today. I missed the showing because I was at the gym, but hopefully I'll catch a rerun of it online somewhere. The parts of it I caught online, however, kinda worried me. Although I haven't been keeping up with every detail of the race, it seems like it has taken a turn for the worse. Hillary's looking like a desperate critic, instead of showing with evidence how her policies will be more effective than Obama's. The smug grin on her face doesn't help her case much, either. It looked like much of her focus was on the small unimportant issues at hand, such as the who-what-where of Barack's speeches, and attacking Obama the way she did will lower her image, ironically.

But on that note, I don't trust Obama, either. Dude just gives me a bad feeling when I listen to him and read about him. Call me a cynic, call me a conservative old-fashioned Republican McCain supporter, whatever. Most of his arguments and statements seem to appeal to emotion rather than logic, and sound way too idealistic to work for a country as complicated and messed-up as us. (See previous references if you don't know what I mean) He's barely had a run as senator, yet he promises to change -and we're assuming for the better here - pretty much every aspect of this country. I mean, socialism is a change too, if you want to think about it.

All you hear from his campaign is, hope and change, hope and change, hope and change. Sounds like stuff you would want to happen, but ultimately won't. It's like spam. That's it. Barack Obama is the political equivalent of a spambot. Good god, I sound like such a cynical pessimist right now.

References and analogies aside, I also highly disagree with his standing on foreign policy. I do agree with what he thinks is wrong with the world, but he seems to base his entire arguments on the assumption that he can just nice his way through everything. Maybe he got it from this article. In any case, the world is not a safe place and never has been. Sure, we can take our troops out (which would be a huge waste of the past few years), but what will we do if the enemies of the U.S. come after us? How would Obama handle that? It would be ironic if his handling of the situation was even worse than Bush's.

And although essentially it has nothing to do with Obama, look at who he has for a wife. The woman says she is, for the first time, proud of her country. That's some good ole patriotic support when you need it. McCain, on the other hand....the dude spent 5 years being tortured daily for information, and the most he divulged was the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line. Too bad Hill can't use that as her "experience."

It's going to be a very interesting election.



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