Finally, validation of the Law & Order / Sopranos connection:
Law & Order Meets The Sopranos (Watch out for the pop-ups)
From the page:
In the criminal justice system there are three separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders; and the actors who appear on both Law & Order and The Sopranos. These are their stories.
When I was seventeen,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small
town girls and soft summer nights.
We’d hide from the lights
on the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city
girls who lived up the stairs
With all that perfumed hair
and it came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded
girls of independent means
We’d ride in limousines,
their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days are short,
I’m in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage
wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
-Kingston Trio, 1961
(This post is blatantly stolen from about 8 other places, most recently Voz 37’s LiveJournal)
* People who have no concept of what they’re doing with their bodies: this includes: hair flipping, foot shuffling, gum chewing, grunting / throat clearing, gross eating, etc…
* People eating their lunch at their desks. This is heinous! Get up, walk around, breathe some air! Besides, your lunch stinks!
* Shared food areas at work, especially dips. The Refrigerator, microwave, and sink at work are simply bacteria traps.
* People who try to badger me into accepting their ‘Free’ meals, T-Shirts, or other things I NEVER WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE
* Surrogate pets: People who’s animal is treated like a child. I’m gonna extend this to all small dogs, save beagles and weiner dogs.
* People eating cookies, cake, or soda before noon.
* PEOPLE ON CELL PHONES IN PUBLIC! THIS MEANS YOU!
Let’s just get this out of the way quickly, shall we? I’ll try and be brief so we can get back to the usual nonsense.
There exists a school of thought in which war is seen as inherently bad, in which the act or thought of war marks some sort of barbarism that we, as a society should have progressed beyond by now. This viewpoint, typically known as pacifism, holds deep roots amongst liberals and leftists.
I believe that war is innate and in many ways essential to the human experience. War, specifically agressive/defensive combat (not so much the political crap) has a very real and necessary purpose. And let me just summarize those in bullet points!
War:
* Demonstrates Power in a tangible way.
* Establishes a system of boundaries and repercussions among differing factions.
* Is a *physical* manifestation of rhetoric (put your money where your mouth is)
* Is immutable- because death is immutable- causing death *will* create change- beneficial or not.
Now- as for this war:
* I believe that the climate of the Middle Eastern region has emerged as a threat of similar nature to the pre-WWII Nazis.
* Saddam Hussein should probably be removed from power. His government and those that identify with him need to be *shown* that we have the power to destroy them. They need to understand this. The French understand this. The Germans understand. The Italians understand. Russians, Poles, they all remember WWII.
* The UN and European Nations have shown, time and time again, that they are unwilling to engage in combat to enforce their international law. WWII was not *that* long ago.
Given that, here are my misgivings about this thing:
* Regional, country-to-country combat will only work given targeted, extremely short-term conflict.
* Conflict must be followed by education, and an embrace of a truly disheartened and discouraged populace.
Eventually, the Middle Eastern populace will be dragged, kicking and screaming into an age where poverty and fanaticism no longer dictate their lives. When those poeple learn to condemn terror in their hearts, the threats against us will be diminished as well.
Sometimes, the only way to teach is through pain.
This is a challenge to headphone manufacturers:
* Make a pair of headhones that can survive 6 months of use.
* Make a pair of headphones which are not entirely held together by miniscule plastic clips.
Another pair bites the dust.
I tried TWICE today to add a post- first time the damn admin tool session timed out before I hit submit- second time- well lets just say Safari doesn’t support undo in textareas.
F!@K COMPUTERS!
I was shoveling (guess what-more snow), when Old Man Ketcham gets out of his truck and starts ragging on me about putting the snow in the street, because he or somebody’s somehow going to get stuck on it.
I told him to pipe down and go into his house and have a drink. He charged towards me and stood inches away from my face exclaiming “I don’t drink!”
I told him the plow would be through here and nobody’s gonna get stuck and that he was a crazy old man and to go into his house.
He then grabbed the shovel which I was holding in the port arms position and was all red in the face and his beady, evil little eyes were burning a hole in the back of my head.
I told him that if I let go of the shovel I’m going inside and calling 911, and for him to go into his house. That evidently convinced him not to engage me further.
Oh well, it’s all in a day’s show snoveling!
This is absolutely true!
Hey! have you joined the Celery Club mailing list yet?
Is it just me or does Ron Jeremy look like shit?
Renee Zellweger is an up-and-coming movie starlet who you may have seen in such films as “Nurse Betty” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary”
Despite the high chick factor, Bridget Jones’ Diary is a funny-ass flick- and Renee Zellweger is the perfect hottie girl next door. Just a little chunky, and cute as a button.
Thank god for Google Image Search.