News: The Daily Habit
Lots of interesting things out there in the world today, but many of them are the same old stories that have been dragged around for weeks now. Hillary and Obama are still quarrelling over the seesaw on the playground, congress is still trying to hang the cheaters who took roids to improve their play in the major leagues (Sports) and scientists may have found the missing link to dinosaurs in South America (Culture), one hell of a weird place for gigantic lizards that may have been destroyed by aliens, or a giant rock from outer space.
That wretch McCain continues to stumble around the campaign trail like a drunkard in an early Irish novel but now the Terminator offered to guard his camp. Even though Ahnold is off the juice he has rising power in California and can easily choke you out with one hand. Hillary might need to call up Barry and Roger for a little boost some time soon though (Politics). I like that gal, she’s a smart cookie, but rest assure she’s not one to fool around with too long. Like a bird of prey, she eats her young whole, and will eat yours too, if you get in her way.
Billy Gates and the evil Microsoft empire made a massive bid for Yahoo today and I sure as hell hope the deal stalls out. I always liked that pirate Gates because when he wants something, he has the minerals to get it, even if he has to crush the meek guys along the way. But, Yahoo is one of the last things on the internet that’s still free and hasn’t changed much, or hasn’t been destroyed by share holders who inflate the hell out the stock, then sell it as a fence post to ill informed investors. If Gates does buy it, the little people will be charged some sort of fee and the empire will acquire more wealth, but the hackers will scoff and just steal it anyway, whatever it might be (Technology).
17,000 hard-working Americans were laid off today, another sign that Bush and his oil baron buddies are getting rich off the war in Iraq while the rest of us are struggling to pay the bills and fill out up our tanks with overpriced Venezuelan crude funneled by that maniac Hugo Chavez. You know, the one who, during a speech to the U.N., said the Hollocaust never existed and lamented over the death of Chomsky who, in case you didn’t know, is still alive and kicking. I never quite understood why we go in and bomb the hell out of a second-world nation, displace the people, strip them of their culture, economic systems and way of life, then we spend billions of dollars rebuilding their primitive stone houses and buildings only to have them blown up again by some angry suicide bomber linked to Paksitan or Bin Laden. Hell, maybe both. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We have people living in refrigerator boxes on the fringe of makeshift shanty towns, micro hamlets that are clumsily arranged under structurallly unsound bridges in urban metropolises, and all of their citizens are humping around their net worth and personal belongings in a wobbly shopping cart. Come on W, spread the wealth. You’re a good Christian, aren’t you?
I’ll leave you all with a quote from The Great Gonzo:
“He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn’t pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I’d been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.” -on meeting George W Bush at Thompson’s Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974
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