Anderson Cooper closed out his (ever-boring) 360 show on CNN last evening with the (delayed) news that the world's ugliest dog has died (on November 15). Why is this news? Has public interest sunk so low?
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The most disturbing item found on the web yesterday was housed at ABC News: the insinuation that Tom Cruise is one of the most fascinating people. Eep.
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How bad is it in Iraq? It is so bad, it is too unsafe for the president of the United States to visit stationed troops in the country. The last time Bush visited Iraq? Thanksgiving 2003. Bush surprised the troops with a visit that holiday weekend and was famously pictured jovially offering a prop turkey to the troops.
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So, two years later, this Thanksgiving weekend, Bush visited the troops in another way; with a phone call.
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Recap: two and a half years following the president declaring the war in Iraq over, the president is unable to visit the country due to certain threats against his personal security. Some victory...
Great story. I always wondered about the video game industry. It seems to me this is very similar to the issue with television/film ratings. No matter if we provide a ratings system, someone's parents will purchase the game (either due to maliciousness or ignorance), or a child will find it somehow. The fact is these games cost $50 which is very steep for young people (assumably with no income); they are getting the money from adults. Just like any rated-R movie any teenager under 17 can get in to see at the theater, video games, either purchased at Walmart or downloaded over the internet, will get in the hands of young people. A solution (not that I agree or endorse it) would be to establish a v-chip-style system within the video game console (which is basically a computer). I hope (and am relatively sure) that the video game industry would support such a move since it mostly relies, I'm assuming, on the huge 18-35 male market. But video games are a lot like any form of media; the material gets old/boring and gets passed around. No one just throws them away. (Disclosure: I have been a long-time gamer, since the Genesis days, and own Playstation2; however, I play NHL-2004 and college football, and have only witnessed the Grand Theft Auto game while at Syracuse. Those role-playing-games are too involved for me... Blitz is another story.)
To: All Employees
Subject: not sure
I am not sure of this is considered abuse
of "All Employee" emails, but does anybody
know of someone having puppies? I am looking
to get one or two around May. Please let me
know.
-Jeff
I guess I was one of the last to jump in on the cell phone fad (I finally got a phone in late November 2001); I eventually purchased a Sprint PCS phone from the Radio Shack at the Carousel Mall in Syracuse and my first phone number (Syracuse area code) was 315-491-5736. (I don't really wonder who has that phone number now, or do I?) My phone turns four this week...
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Doonesbury investigates (and reveals) the hidden truth behind the reasons Bush is down with torture... (Click on image for full cartoon.)
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This weekend's road trip included driving five hours north up Highway 101 to Eureka, a stop in Arcata (which I had thought was prounounced Arcata, with a soft 'a', not a harsh 'a'; very dissappointing...), then eastward four hours on rugged Highway 299 through Weaverville to I-5 in Redding, and up north an hour to Mount Shasta. We spent the second night in Weed. In all, we drove over 850 miles and crossed off two points of interest on our list of places to go in California, and added one to our blacklist (Eureka). The northern coast of California is coined, "the Lost Coast," and now I know why...
Forty-two years following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the nation's thirty-fifth president (and the nation's first Catholic president), one question still persists... Did the Beatles have anything to do with it? And I say, yes.
I developed this theory in the late nineties (I say that as if it were a long time ago) as I discovered and investigated the music of the Beatles. The Beatles released their first album, Please Please Me, in Britain on November 22, 1963. That day sounds familiar. Yes, you have read that correctly: "Please please me" on the same day as JFK's death. Five years to the day, the Beatles released their self-titled album, also known as the "White Album," on November 22, 1968. One of their songs on that album states, "Why don't we do it in the road? No one will be watching us." The History Channel's investigation into the JFK conspiracy lends creedence to the idea that JFK may have been fatally wounded by a gunshot fired from within the storm drain sewer ("in the road"). Additionally, lyrics on the famed White Album include, "Hey Bungalow Bill, what did you kill, Bungalow Bill" and "Happiness is a warm gun, when I hold you in my arms, and I feel my finger on your trigger, I know no one can do me no harm." There are many more references within the White Album and I plan on researching further. (The form as to which I publish these findings is still in the air.)
It is my theory that the Beatles knew about the plot to assassinate Kennedy and arranged for the release of their first album on that day, and five years later, with hidden messages throughout the album, confessed to their prior knowledge on the White Album. Or maybe I was completely stoned at the time.
Is it just me, or is the trailer for King King really, really good? And I mean, go see it in the theaters good. Or is it just me? Please tell me. The first time the trailer came on, I immediately said, "Oh, no," thinking that the producers would be trying to capture the nostalgic productions of the past - black and white, slow moving stick figures, horrific special effects - and not produce a modern-day film, a la Batman or Superman. But I was wrong and within the first ten seconds of the trailer, I admit it: I was sold. King Kong looks really, really good.
