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Posted 9:45am, Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Familiarity breeds contempt. So I decided to tweak the design of this page a bit. Updated the links, put the archive down the right side. When you stare at your own site all day, you get bored. I almost revamped the whole thing. Instead, I only changed the masthead. Enjoy it while you can. I'll probably redesign the whole damn thing by the start of Summer. Meahwhile, all the archived pages will look nothing like this. I'll rationalize it by saying it's intentional. Seeing the old pages will be like peeling off old wallpaper and determining what the designer was into at that point in history. If you're finding it hard to keep track of all the Bush administrations lies about Iraq, your worries are over. Representative Henry Waxman has compiled all the lies on one website. And it's all hosted by the House of Representatives! Check it out... after all, your tax dollars paid for it! Curb Your Enthusiasm just wrapped up its season on Sunday. Admittedly not as funny as previous years, but still one of the best shows on TV. I haven't watched Friends in about three years. I have no idea what's going on in that show. I guess I'll watch the series finale in May, but I don't think it'll have any resonance with me. I just don't find it that entertaining anymore. I have to admit that I'm still addicted to American Idol. This season's bunch is by far the most talented top ten I've seen. Some of these cats can really sing. Survivor is also still one of my faves. Something about watching human beings turn on each other is fascinating. I will miss Frasier. Its so under appreciated. Still extremely well-written and well-acted, I think it's better than it's predecessor, Cheers.
Of 16 stocks I track, NONE of them are positive this week. It's not like I'm concentrating on one sector. I'm watching Gillette, Ebay, Bank of America, Marvel, Apple, Amazon, Providian Bancorp, Yahoo, etc. So much for a rebounding economy. For all this talk about a robless recovery, now we can't even point to the Dow/Nasdaq/etc for validation. Spain's people have pretty much voted no confidence on the leaders who aligned them with the U.S. on the Iraq invasion. All we have on our side now is Blair, who seems to get beaten up by the press and the citizentry on a daily basis. Despite the pseudo-optimism, Bush is completely fucked. The only jobs we've added lately are government spots (sure sounds like increasing the size of government to me). Unless Bush produces bin Laden the week before the elections, and I do mean the week BEFORE the elections, he's done. The American people only want to know what you've done for them lately, which in Bush's case is jackshit.
I'm not talking about Afghanistan or the Taliban. I believed and still believe, we did the right thing in going in and trying to capture Bin Laden. Instead, it became too hard. The administration gave up. They decided to capitilize on the good will to implement an invasion on Iraq that was already in the planning three years earlier by Paul Wolfowitz. No. The Bush administration could have created a world united against murdering terrorists. Instead we are seen as one. What was the headline in the French newspaper on 9/12? "We are all Americans today." A few months later, some assholes subjected us to freedom fries and freedom toast. Sad.
A few years ago when I was editing The Laughing Drunk website, I wondered how one of columnists had gone so political. He used to write satirical articles about yuppies and television shows. Then one month, he just made a u-turn, got serious and started writing about politics. I'm now about the same age he was when he became all activist-like. I wonder if there's something about the mid-late thirties that turns you that way. One big difference: my pal is on the extreme Left. I'm pretty Liberal, but this guy is waaay Left. Everything was a conspiracy. Nevermind the fact that four years later most of his predictions about the Bush administration have come true.
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