I think about the same stuff every time. I snowboard down the same magnified Gillette magazine advertisement every summer. Even though the war in Lebanon is over, its effects linger. An Israeli soldier visible in the distance unsettles mourners at a funeral. Israeli soldiers remain until the international forces show up. 70 of the 200 expected French soldiers arrived.
A bunch of hydrologists and other scientists say that unless we figure out how to grow more food with less water, water is going to be a scarce thing in the coming years, and violence'll be the result. President of Sudan refuses to let UN troops into Darfur to keep the peace. He insists the African Union can do it, but they say their 7,000 troops are maxed out as it is; they run out of money next month.
Bush joked that he was the first president to fail to carry the state he was born in, but a snide and bad NYT article reminds us that his dad, born in MA, lost it twice. [boring, stressed-out personal deletions]
I wrote a fan email to Irwin at WFMU this morning. Coworker birthday glass of champagne and cake have softened my brain for the rest of the day [4:46 p.m.]. What-all more will I get done? We'll see. New Orleans slowly rebuilding. California gonna raise the minimum wage. Will Smith writing a movie for India. Sports reporter doesn't have a thin skin, he has no skin. Bernanke, aka The Fed, acknowledges uncertainty. Pedophiles go nuts online. Colorado dude in Thailand who sort of confessed to JonBenet murder is back in CA. Violence in Congo on eve of election returns. Germans coming around to closed-circuit surveillence of public places after recent UK->US terrorism plane scare. Train crash in....um... can't remember. Pakistan. Oakland adopting this program where they bring known rabblerousers in without arresting them and warn them, scare them. Gov. Jerry Brown compared reforming a police dept. to turning an ocean liner around: you do it slowly. Something new happened with Jose Padilla. He got a haircut? A haircut of his was thrown out of court as inadmissable? Uhh
In other news, my personal life just kidding
Meryl Streep is pretty good on broadway in a Brecht play. C. L. wrote a H. W. with a good line linking Pluto and Gunter Grass. I AM DRUNK AND NOT CONSULTING MY SOURCES. But yeah, Pluto will now be known as a dwarf-planet.
Slightly overweight babyboomers die sooner. Harry Crews publishes a small novel with a small publisher. Marisha Pessl or whatever is pretty and smart and everyone knows it. She will not reveal what she is working on. Her husband is rich. What else
Welfare reform worked! But moms still struggle. But the number of cases dropped and the number of employed moms rose. But moms still struggle. A dude is running against Hilary for Senate but he's got a ways to go to be LaMont style (sheesh who is reading this I am going to start a splinter blog called "my hard drive" where I am the only reader. Click here to continue)
Some fucking chefs left some fucking restaurants. There is a mountain biking mecca in the badlands of North Dakota. American aid groups aren't allowed to go through terrorists organizations, the US considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but it's nigh-impossible to distribute goods etc in Southern Lebanon and avoid Hezbollah completely.
Iran defiantly moves forward with Uranium Enrichment plans; US/(UN?) sanctions are motherfucking imminent. Snakes on a Plane was an internet sensation but tepid in the box-office. Some Almódovar knockoff just came out called "Princess Tiny Town" or something. Spike Lee's Katrina doc pretty good. Grave woman on CNN tonight.
Pensions.... ah, pensions
Equity
Researchers would love to use all this data that AOL released, but they can't bring themselves to do it because it is an invasion of privacy. All this data that researchers would love to use is only accessible to a few megafucks in mid-level corporations. Foo Fighters exist. New OutKast album is just OK (the movie is better?)
A Russian helped prove the Poincaré [theorem?] and would have won the Nobel of math, called the Leland Prize, but then he totally disappeared. The Poincaré Theorem states that if a rabbit has no asshole, you cannot shove a donut up its ass. Or if you lasso a mound of play-dough, the play-dough will never be shaped like a donut... which will never be eaten by a orificeless bunny. IN THREE-DEE WITH CHECKERBOARDS COVERING EVERY SURFACE. game over