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Personal - Holiday Road

Ahhh, the holidays....

Odd observation of the day: my Firefox is set up at home so I almost NEVER see an add on a website. When I travel and am forced to use IE, I realize how the rest of the world sees the web. As one large bilboard.

No sir, I don't like it.

Sports - 2 & 2 and leading the AFC West!

Well... tied with two other teams, but we're still leading!

Nice win. Really nice.

I was obviously 100% wrong about both the Chiefs and the Chargers.

An often overlooked fact by the national media, (I'm looking at you ESPN!) is that the Chiefs defense has not allowed one single touchdown in any of the 4 second halfs this season.

Current events - Run the ball! Run it!

From the Kansas City Star :

Fight forces lockdown at Jackson County Jail

A brawl led to the lockdown of the Jackson County Jail Sunday night, according to media reports.
The fight apparently broke out over the Chiefs game, inmates’ relatives told reporters. It was unclear if anyone was seriously hurt, or how long the jail was locked down.
Jail officials declined to comment early Monday morning.

LOL.

I bet it was when they called a pass to the corner of the end zone on 3rd and short!

Media - ATandT Censors Pearl Jam concert

AT&T... that bastion of free speech, decided it wanted to protect us all from the obscenity laced concert Pearl Jam did during the "Blue Room" Live Lollapalooza Webcast.

The obscenity?

During the performance of "Daughter" the following lyrics were sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" but were cut from the webcast:

- "George Bush, leave this world alone." (the second time it was sung); and

- "George Bush find yourself another home."

No biggie, you say? It's their webcast to do with what they want, you say? Sure is. But remember... these are the same fuckwad corporations that want to put net neutrality on it's ass so they can censor (but lowering bandwidth) ANYTHING you or I or anyone else put on the internet.

Fuck AT&T. There... censor THAT!

Current events - Oil and water

Think noted humanitarian Sam Waterston and conservative Fred Thompson have some interesting and heated discussions on set?

Personal - Happy Birthday Yoda!

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Frank Oz, the man who gave voice to Yoda, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert... and my personal favorite... the Corrections Officer in Blues Brothers!

Geek - Thanks George!

Now please, I'm begging you... stop.

Media - Left hand, meet right hand...

The US military has taken the war in Iraq into cyberspace, with the launch of its own channel on the video-sharing website YouTube.

But wait...

The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.

Media - If it bleeds, it leads

I think I'm pissed at MSNBC for airing the videos and pics from Psycho-Cho.

It's salt in the wounds of Virginia Tech and reeks of sensationalism.

EDIT:

Once again, I can't put into words what others can...

So Mr. Cho gets his fifteen minutes. The question bewildering journalism observers--why'd he send his goodie bag to NBC News?--has an easy answer: it was in gratitude for their firing of Imus.
Not so easy is the answer to the question: what is the possible journalistic explanation for splashing Cho's self-dramatizing poses and self-justifying bullshit over network and cable air? Did we learn anything useful during the spate of interviews of Charlie Manson years ago, except that he was one crazy motherfucker? Cho's pathetic outpourings deserved to be put back where they came from--in a small room, with FBI guys sentenced to read/see and parse them Instead, a hundred thousand self-pitying mentally ill young men (and women?) have just been shown the road to glory one more time. A society in which it's easier to become famous for killing people than for doing something useful or constructive is one remarkable place in which to live.

via HuffPost - Harry Shearer

Media - Who said what now? I'm offended!

Was Imus wrong to use those words? Yeah.
Is it as bad as the media is making it out? No.

Had any of the Rutgers team EVER listened to Imus? Probably not.
Had any of the Rutgers team ever listened to gangsta rap? Most likely.

Is a dumb, old, white guy with a comedy radio show a real threat because he used a distasteful phrase? Nope.
Are mainstream, black rappers and hip-hop artists who glamorize prisonand drugs, mock getting an education and condone beating and degrading women a threat? Yes.

Will Imus lose his job over the comments? Yeah.
Will "Half-Dollar-Cube-Killa" lose his recording contract for his lyrics? Nope.

Common sense - 0, Victimization - 1.

Politics - I heard it on Real Time w/ Bill Maher

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain

Personal - R.I.P. Larry Bud

Larry "Bud" Melman dead at age 85

You will be missed, funny man.

The Web - A feature I'd love to see

Why, if I can customize my viewing experience on all these news web sites, can I not have a filter to screen out any stories I don't want to see?

My list starts with:
Anna Nicole Smith
Brittany Spears
K-Fed
American Idol
Simon Cowl
Ryan Seacrest

Media - Remember just... watching T.V.?

Yeah, me neither.

Heroes Wiki
Battlestar Wiki
Smallville Wiki
Stargate Wiki
Firefly Wiki

Media - WTF, SciFi? Why you gotta do that to me?

I've avoided Stargate (all incarnations) since it left Showtime (ok, a bit after season one, really).

So what do the evil bastards at SciFi Channel do? They go out and get Ben Browder and Claudia Black from one of my favorite all time scifi shows.

Ok, I can do this... still not watching.

Not easily swayed, the maniacs have now gone and persuaded the most beautiful companion in the frontier territories, Morena Baccarin who played Inara from another of my favorite all time scifi shows, Firefly.

DAMN YOU, SCIFI! DAMN YOU!

Current events - Randi Rhodes asks a great question

Via Hoffmania

"Why did the president cut and run from Afghanistan?"

Current events - He's "Decided" not to let you see him sign his first veto

Via Think Progress

SNOW: The president will, however, before he delivers remarks this afternoon, veto the Castle bill.

Here's how it works, because I know a lot of you have had questions. There will be no photographers, no ceremony. What the president will do is, in his office, he will sign a veto message, he will hand it to a clerk, who will convey it to a clerk of the House, and then you go through the formalities of announcing a message from the president, and at some point the House will vote on the veto.

QUESTION: Is there a reason why he's not having photographers in, at least?

SNOW: Because he doesn't feel it's appropriate. He's signing a veto.

Incompetent prick.

Politics - Pat Roberts... flip-flopper?

Via Think Progress

Today, Senate Coverup Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) attacked the media for writing about the SWIFT bank records tracking program, and he called for a “formal damage assessment” to be done by Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. (Dan Froomkin today explained how the “existence of SWIFT itself has not exactly been a secret.”)

Roberts began his attack on the media yesterday:

If another attack occurs because of this information going out…the people who have written these stories and the people who have made their decisions should look in the mirror.

But Roberts is the one who needs to “look in the mirror” about the effects leaks have on national security. The National Journal’s Murray Waas reported in April that during the start of the Iraq war, Roberts disclosed sensitive intelligence in a speech he delivered (ironically enough) to the National Newspaper Association:
[T]hree years ago on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Roberts himself was involved in disclosing sensitive intelligence information that, according to four former senior intelligence officers, impaired efforts to capture Saddam Hussein and potentially threatened the lives of Iraqis who were spying for the United States.

On March 20, 2003, at the onset of military hostilities between U.S. and Iraqi forces, Roberts said in a speech to the National Newspaper Association that he had “been in touch with our intelligence community” and that the CIA had informed President Bush and the National Security Council “of intelligence information from what we call human intelligence that indicated the location of Saddam Hussein and his leadership in a bunker in the suburbs of Baghdad.”

The former intelligence officials said in interviews that Roberts was never held accountable for his comments, which bore directly on the issue of intelligence-gathering sources and methods, and revealed that Iraqis close to Hussein were probably talking to the United States.

As former intelligence officials told Waas, the incident showed “how rank and file intelligence professionals now have much to fear from legitimate and even inadvertent contacts with journalists, while senior executive branch officials and members of Congress are almost never held accountable when they seriously breach national security through leaks of information.

Sounds like a flip-flop to me.

Media - Blizzard, why hath thou forsaken us!?!?

"Uwe Boll Secures Rights to 'StarCraft' Movie Trilogy
The man who inspired gamers to hate film-makers secures one of Blizzard's finest."

Via AOL

Frack.