Sunday, September 7, 2003

   Awesome sites
www.drinkdeeplyanddream.com
www.theug.com
www.blackwings.net
www.furiousfeather.com
www.methodcosplay.com
www.animelyrics.com
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Saturday, September 6, 2003

   .hack//sign
Well, .hack//sign is on tonight:) That has got to be one of the best anime's ever. I mean, the art, characters, concept...everything is so well developed. 'it rox my sox on a tuesday morning'. Next year I 'hope' to go to a con as Subaru... This year I'm Faye V. from cowboy bebop. Fun!
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   Gender Genie!
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
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   This guy is nuts; Gay men rock my sox on a tuesday morning!
The Dirty Guy Was Asking For It!

Via Morons.org:


The lawyer for a man charged with stalking and harassing a gay man says the victim brought it on because of his behavior and clothing.

19 year old Michael Grisson is accused of following and yelling obscenities and threats at the victim, Jimmy L. Bryan, 18.

"[I] wish it wasn't illegal to kill fags out of innocent fun," Grisson is alleged to have told Bryan.

Defense attorney Louis Walrath claims Grissom may have been provoked by Bryan's 'gay' appearance.

In court documents filed by Walrath, the attorney says a person who acts gay "invites these kind of remarks."

http://www.365gay.com/NewsContent/082903victimBash.htm

Yeah, and when the quarterback rapes the head cheerleader after homecoming, she deserves it; because, you know, she was flirting with him at the party.


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   It's the end of the world as we know it!
Doomsday In 11 Years!!!

There's been some hoopla over the news that asteriod 2003 QQ47 may impact the earth in 2014. Just so you know, the media almost always fucks up the science when talking about these things. Just ask Phil Plait.

In case you've heard about this and are living in a misconception, let me make some clarifications:

Most news sources give the impact probability as 1 in 909,000, which is a long shot in itself; but the actual odds, according to NASA, are 1 in 2,222,000 or a 0.000045000% chance of impact. [Link] (Note: impact probabilities can be inacurate up to a factor of ten or more.)

This Guardian article (via Genfoods,) makes the worst mistake I've seen so far in giving the mass of the asteroid as 2,600 metric tons. In reality, according to NASA, the mass is estimated to be 2.8 billion (with a 'B') metric tons.

Another common mistake the media has been making is in the energy of the impact if it hits. They give the force of the impact as 350,000 megatons (it's actually more like 370 thousand,) and compare that to Hiroshima by saying that the blast would be "around 8m times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima." Depending on who you ask, the Hiroshima bomb was between 15 and 20 kilotons, which would make the asteroid impact between 17.5 and 25 million times larger than the first bomb dropped on Japan.

As far as I've seen, all news sources have gotten the speed right, 20 miles (33.5 km) a second, or 75,000 miles (120,000 km) an hour. And they've mostly gotten the width -- .75 mile (1.2 km,) though some have given it as two-thirds of a mile -- right (although that's really subjective since this thing is probably not very spherical at all.)

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   The war in Iraq
I'll Tell You Where You Can Stick Your War Hard-On.

Via Factivism:


I can't believe you people.

First you jump around like Alabama cheerleaders for a war in Iraq, then you turn chickensh*t once we lose a few soldiers in the occupation.

I just read the new polls. Americans are losing their war hard-ons faster than a homosexual in a whorehouse. At the start of May 2003, 61% said the war was going "very well." Now only 19% say that. Back in May, only 4% said the war was going "not well." Now 35% think so.

You make me sick.
What the Hell did you think was gonna happen? The Iraqis were gonna fall in love with an occupying army? "Oh thank you for blowing up our power plants and water supply! Allah be praised, now we have democracy!"

Haha. You gotta read the rest.
http://www.factupworld.com/MT/archives/000455.html
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   Fun Factoid
Take That.

The French are more productive than Americans who work longer hours than the Japanese.

Now, how many stereotypes does that sentence contradict?

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   old news
Monday, July 21, 2003

It now seems clear that Iraq was better off under SH

Or at the very least, it will be a good long while until they are better off.



Death on the road to Basra

They are Shia Muslims, persecuted by Saddam Hussein. After the war, many of them welcomed the coalition forces but now they blame the Americans.

"I thought they came here to protect us and give us security," the dead boy's mother says.

Wounded children sway US battle for Iraqi hearts and minds "Instead there's death and more suffering."

She looks at the body of her son, which has been covered by a blanket. Tears run down her face. Another woman kneels down, she is frustrated.

"I can't understand - why has this happened?" she asks.

A few minutes later, the boy's father lifts the body into the boot of a car. The father is crying as he drives off to the hospital morgue.
My translator, Wissam, is furious.

"Why didn't the Americans stop when they saw they'd run over the child?" he asks me.


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   Older news
Saturday, July 19, 2003
Atrios links to an LA times article:

Still, he and other Pentagon officials said, they are studying the lessons of Iraq closely — to ensure that the next U.S. takeover of a foreign country goes more smoothly.

"We're going to get better over time," promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. "We've always thought of post-hostilities as a phase" distinct from combat, he said. "The future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum.

"This is the future for the world we're in at the moment," he said. "We'll get better as we do it more often."



We have got to vote these neocon idiots out.
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   FUN!
A testimonial from one the children I sit for - a very bright 5-year old:


Dad asked, "Tyler, how would you like it if Lauren became your regular babysitter?"


"Oh, yes! I loveLauren! We always play so nicely together and she is so gentle."


This kid is better than Prozac.


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