Blogs - Silent Bob Speaks

My Boring Ass Life? This clown (and by clown I mean wonderfully talented writer/director) is living the life I was supposed to have, and he calls it boring.

Music - Molly O'Poverty's Guide to (Mostly) Free Music

Molly O'Poverty's Guide to (Mostly) Free Music

Lots of electronica. Some good stuff.

Humor - "Freedom" Quarter

Bush to rename rebuilt French Quarter "Freedom" Quarter

Politics - Just in case you are keeping score.... part 2

A short, but funny letter to the President from Bill Maher.

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished.

Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.

So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.'"

-Bill Maher

Current Events - Katrina : The Gathering

The next big CCG? Katrina: The Gathering, in which you tap Dick Cheney to take control of Dubya or tap an intern to destroy Bill Clinton.

Brilliant.

Food - Damn, I loves me my Slurpee!

The Slurpee is 40 years old!

Current Events - Exxon's not making enough money

"Do you realize President Bush has just given a tax break to ExxonMobil?'' thundered Rep. Ed Markey (D-Malden). "Of all the companies in the history of the world that needed a tax break, this month, ExxonMobil should be at the bottom of the list."

Current Events - Bush: 'I take responsibility' for federal failures on Katrina

CNN.com - Bush: 'I take responsibility' for federal failures on Katrina : "'Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility,' Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani."

Here's the deal... whether he says he's responsible or not, as the president he IS responsible! He's the guy that all the secretaries answer to.

Remember when Reagan had a sign on his desk that read, "The Buck Stops Here"? It did and still does. Only Junior has a sign on his desk that reads, "Fool Me Once... Won't Get Fooled Again" and no one knows what the hell that even means!

He’s not responsible for the weather. He’s not responsible for the dead and dying. He is responsible for how well or how poorly the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the direction of a man HE put there, is run.

They are failing.

He has failed.

Again.

Humor - Balcony, please...

One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, "George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country?" "Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises, and then fades away.

The next night, Bush is astir again, and sees the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. Bush calls out, "Tom, please! What is the best thing I can do to help the country?" "Respect the Constitution, as I did," Jefferson advises, and dims from sight.

The third night sleep is still not in the cards for Bush. He awakens to see the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. Bush whispers, "Franklin, what is the best thing I can do to help the country?" "Help the less fortunate, just as I did," FDR replies and fades into the mist.

Bush isn't sleeping well the fourth night when he sees another figure moving in the shadows. It is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Bush pleads, "Abe, what is the best thing I can do right now to help the country?"

Lincoln replies, "Go see a play."

Media - Visa "Metaphors"

Is that Tom Brady's wife in that Visa commercial?

What, winning three Super Bowls wasn't enough?

Games - Iron Realms

Iron Realms offers four unique text based MMORPG's for free. I'll post my impressions of each later.

Games - Blizzard gets greedy

WoW General Discussion -: "Character-Transfer Service
Another feature of the Web site we'll be implementing is fee-based character transfers. This is a feature that's been very frequently requested and one which we want to provide for players as soon as we can. We'll offer character transfers from one realm to another, as well as allow players to move characters from one account to another. While we want to offer this service as a convenience, we also want to prevent its use for exploitive reasons, so there will be a time restriction to limit the frequency that a character can be moved."

So, basically, I can level a character and sell give it to another player?!?! How is that fair? The Chinese farmers are probably drooling all over themselves.

Current Events - New Orleans Flood in Your City

Most individuals across the country have no idea the magnitude of the disaster and the enormous need and help that is needed. Using the maps below, individuals can accurately imagine the size of the disaster by comparing their city. With the "hitting home theme" more individuals may be inclined to help or support relief efforts.

If the New Orleans flood hit Kansas City.

Current Events - Katrina Relief, part 2

I added a small banner to the upper right corner of the blog that was provided by Brian Alvey. You can add it (or one for the Salvation Army) to your blog there at his site.

Thanks Brian.

Politics - Just in case you are keeping score....

Arbusto - FAILED
Harken Energy - FAILED
bin Ladden - FAILED
Iraq - FAILED
Katrina - FAILED

Follow up - When is looting not looting?

Romenesko has a quote from the AFP caption writer on the couple who "found" the bread in NOLA.

Meh, I guess it could be sincere. Maybe I'm just that jaded.

Politics - August 30, 2005

Personal - Good, Bad, Worst

Good: Going to the bathroom at work and seeing someone has left a newspaper there.
Bad: It's the USA Today.
Worst: It's the business section... from last monday.

Event - It's the end of the world as we know it...

Exit MundiI: A Collection of End of the World Scenarios. Kind of cathartic to see all the many ways we could go out.

I was always pulling for the revolt of the sentient cyborgs type scenario.

Personal - Nothing to see here

Move along... move along.