Weather

Unless the Weather Channel is screwing around with me (which usually happens more in Santa Fe than here in Suburban Hell), the pup is getting a real short walk tomorrow morning:

Showers in the morning then continued cloudy and windy in the afternoon. Morning high of 39F with temps falling to near freezing. Winds W at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

Yuck.

Fly, Eagles, fly?

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle; the Eagles, in a stroke of insane luck, have made the playoffs.

Two Philadelphia sports teams in the playoffs in the same year? And it's the Eagles and the Phillies? What chaos!

(Also - seeing all the Phillies bumper stickers and stuff around here is still making me grin like an idiot. Is this kind of how Yankees fans feel all the time?)

New Years Resolutions for the World

Can we please do something about Mugabe? Seriously, the guy is just a dick.

Poor babies

I swear, if I see one more article about how the rich are seriously feeling the recession and need to sell their winter home in Palm Beach and went so lowbrow that they're only spending six hundred dollars on wine for their annual Christmas party and things are so bad they need to lay off their personal assistant, I'm just going to vomit.

Grunt

No reasonable person can deny that Rousseau's Social Contract had a significant influence on the framing of the Constitution.*

Unfortunately, either Rousseau or those framers completely fucked something up, because Rousseau says that representative government is a form of tyranny and obviously, the Constitution says otherwise.

This is extremely problematic.

*If this is not true I will kill myself immediately, because my senior thesis will in fact be a complete and total farce at that point.

Have you ever wanted to see an angry man throw his shoes at President Bush?

Even if you think your answer is "no," it's really yes, and the media is there for us.

Oh, why the hell not?

Nnngggggghhhhh.....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stunned by the loss of 500,000 jobs, congressional Democrats and the White House reached for agreement Friday on about $15 billion in bailout loans for the beleaguered auto industry. President George W. Bush warned that at least one of the Big Three carmakers might not survive the current economic crisis.

Excuse me while I twitch in rage for a few moments.
.......

Okay. So the economy sucks: true. We should try to make it suck less: true. People will lose jobs if the Big 3 aren't bailed out: Regrettably true.

American car makers should have gobs of money thrown at them despite the fact that their products suck balls and the companies have been grossly mismanaged: NOT true.

Look, it sucks that there'll be half a million people more out of work. They'll probably be out of work within a decade anyway, because either they'll retire, or their job will be replaced by a more efficient, less costly automated process. That's called progress. Sorry, guys, but it's time to hang up your factory clothes and join the modern era. The financial well-being of those 500,000 shlubs in Michigan simply does not outweigh the financial well-being of the next generation or three of all Americans. Your family has some hard times - I'm sorry, that sucks. So cut out cable, turn the thermostat down a few degrees, swallow your pride and go to the local unemployment office. Food stamps for that many people is still more affordable than fifteen billion.

American car companies are doing so poorly because their product sucks. This isn't news to anyone. American cars are generally regarded as a joke. They get crappy mileage, they're poorly designed, they're ugly, and people don't like them. That's your fault, not the fault of American consumers, so we should again tell the CEOs to suck it up and accept that they're going to go down in history as the ones who ran the industry permanantly into the ground.

Ugh

It's time to stop working on the grad school applications and go the hell to bed when you put your date of birth as month, day, year-that-you-want-to-start-your-studies-at-this-institution.

Make it end please...

Yay.

I finally got my full GRE score scores. While my math score is still sub-par, I'm in the 93rd percentile for verbal (good but still could be better) and the 97th for the analytic writing, with a 6 out of 6.

So, yay, I guess.