News Archive - October 2005

   

10-28-2005

This is very bad.

Apparently, one scantily clad woman in your neighborhood is one horseman away from ushering in the apocalypse. 

It's a shame when the conservative right is more worried about beautiful women than about the illegal aliens crossing the Mexican border, bird flu, the terrible state of the economy and 2,000 dead soldiers in Iraq.

10-26-2005

Cue inspirational music here.

Want to know what the best show on TV is that you've never seen?

'Veronica Mars."  I'd heard a little about this show last season but, Ithaca being the Cable shithole it is, I never got to see it because Time Warner doesn't carry UPN here.  This summer, however, CBS showed 4 episodes from the first season.  They only needed to show me 1 and I was hooked.  So hooked, in fact, that when the season 1 DVD dropped last week I quickly ran out and bought it.  That's the first show on DVD that I've ever purchased.

First of all, there is no denying the complete and utter hotness that is Kristen Bell.  She's the hottest thing to come down the WB/UPN pike in the last 10 years not counting Alyson Hannigan (but hey, blonde and redhead...they're in their own categories!).  She's smart, sassy and so very sexy, what else do you want?

How about a fanfuckingtastic show?

Bell, as the Veronica in "Veronica Mars," is the daughter of Neptune's former sheriff.  Her dad, run out of office for botching a murder investigation, is now a private detective and Veronica has inherited his mystery solving technique.  Although still in high school, Veronica seems to have plenty of time to not only investigate the mysteries of school, but also finds time to help out her dad.  Including his most important case, the murder of Lilly Kane who was not only Veronica's best friend, but the sister of her boyfriend.

Outcast as one of the popular 09'ers (oh-niners), Veronica makes some new friends along the way by helping them out of some jams.  Wallace, her closest new friend, is also the new kid on the block and is her insider in the front office of the school.  Weevil, who's in charge of the local biker gang, is Veronica's muscle when Backup, her dog, isn't around.

The writing on the show is tight with a lot of voice-over work by Veronica to set the plot and tone of the show.  If you're a fan of well written shows like Joss Whedon's stuff ("Buffy," "Angel," "Firefly") or the first couple years of "Dawson's Creek" you'll love this show.  The mysteries are also done well with the obligatory twists and turns and some, like the murder of Lilly, aren't fluff like you might expect from a show with a high school backdrop.

There's also a very dark side to Veronica.  In the series opener we find out that after she lost her best friend and boyfriend she was raped at a party.  Her mother left after her father was disgraced and losing her boyfriend also lost her her status in the social pecking order of school.  The show doesn't gloss over any of these areas but instead uses them to show both the strong, intelligent side of Veronica as well as the vulnerable side.

Shows like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Lost," and "Desperate Housewives" may be ratings darlings, but "Veronica Mars" is a one-stop-shop for all the procedural/mystery/soap that you could want.  It's only failing, maybe, is it's network, UPN, which isn't a heavily watched network.

If you aren't watching season 2 now on UPN, start.  And if you need to, go get season 1 on DVD.  Rent it, buy it, steal it from your smarter friends...just watch it, you won't be disappointed.

Dumbass of the day

Goes to Kevin Riley who was on vacation in Mexico during hurricane Wilma.

"I feel the Mexican government is helping here to an extent, doing the best they can," said Kevin Riley, town finance administrator for Paw Paw, Mich. "But the U.S. has done nothing. Where is our government? They are only preparing for Florida. They forgot about us."

Hello! You're in fucking Mexico!  If the goddamn US government couldn't get into New Orleans just how the fuck are they going to get into another country?  Oh, that's right, they AREN'T.  You're on your own, you ass.

10-22-2005

I'm so happy my toes are curling.

Want proof that your "elected" officials are turning a deaf ear to what the people that elected them really want?  Read no further than this quote from Rep Don Young about redirecting funding from the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" to Louisiana; "They can kiss my ear!  That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Senator Ted Stevens, also of Alaska, had an equally asinine comment on the subject; "don't kid people...If the Senate decides to discriminate against our state ... I will resign from this body."

Please don't let the door slam you in the ass, Senator.  Just get the fuck out.

Some things...

New school year, same old Steve York.
 

10-21-2005

I though we might start with something that didn't involve me getting arrested.

So Todd made it through the weekend and he's now spending his honeymoon in Hawaii.  Lucky bastard!

Anyway, no pictures yet.  I found out that being in a wedding is a lot different than going to a wedding.  That being that you have a lot more stuff to think about and take care of and whipping out the digital to snap a couple of candids isn't high on the list.

Anyway, it was a great wedding with plenty of fun at the reception.  There was a lot of drinking both Friday and Saturday night and it was a blast hanging with Kevin (an old college buddy) again.  Big props to Colleen for hooking us up with the after hours club Friday night and Bill and Peggy hanging well after everyone else wimped out Saturday.

Pay up

It seems that the US diplomats in the UK owe a whopping 157,000 GBP in fines.  Way I see it, not only should the diplomats pay that service charge, they should pay it themselves.  If I find out that my tax money is going to pay fucking traffic tickets in London I swear to god I'm moving to Venezuela and helping Chavez pick some coffee...and overthrow the fuckin' US government.

Sorry, sorry.  I'm just kidding.  I'll take over his country and sell oil back to the US...

And who else isn't paying the charge?  How about Egypt, Libya, Rwanda and South Africa, among others.  Exactly the company I want to keep when it comes to stiffing the British.

But fear not, not all is doom and gloom.  Those peace-mongering Swiss haven't exactly bought their way out of trouble with chocolate, a hidden bank account or watch either.

In the end, pay the British their service charge, but don't make it a line item on my income tax next year.

This just in

Wilma is heading for south Florida and Cuba, 500,000 Cuban's evacuating.  Every used Chevy that'll float seen heading for Miami.

10-14-2005

So tomorrow is the big day; Todd is getting hitched!  I'll be sure to have a picture when I get back on Sunday!

10-13-2005

Come on! That can't be normal!

This is what happens when religious freaks named "Jim Bob" procreate.

This woman has had 16 kids and "if the Lord wants to give us some" they'll go ahead and have more.  What is she, a uterus with a head?  She's 39 and has 16 kids.  She got married at 17 and has pretty much been pregnant since she was 21.

And they're from Arkansas.  I'm so shocked that they're from the south...

In other news

Bush is off his rocker again with this Miers broad that he's nominated for the Supreme Court.  She's a freak.  Seriously, have you seen a picture of her?  The last time I saw that much eye liner was at a Marilyn Manson concert.  Get rid of her and get us a judge from somewhere.

There's been a huge earthquake in Pakistan and thousands are dead and there's no help and support to some remote villages.  I have to ask the question; Why is this news?  Brownie couldn't get fuckin' help into Mississippi, do you really expect people to get into the mountain villages of a country like Pakistan or Kashmir?  And as for the US sending money and aide to them?  No.

Take care of the problems here first.  I don't want to hear about how much money we're sending to Pakistan and other countries to help out their injured and sick when I'm already footing the bill for FEMA to truck loads of ice around the country and store them for (possibly) years until they're needed.

It's a fucking crime when my heating bill is going to double or triple this winter but $9,000 of my tax money can be blown on trucking bags of ice from Louisiana to Massachusetts.  I'll tell you what, give upstate NY about 2 more months and we'll make you all the ice you can handle.  Pay me $9,000 and I'll load up the Intrepid and deliver it anywhere in the fucking continental US you want it.

Fuckers!

But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun

I think they need to stop showing Super Troopers to new police officers in Spokane, Washington.

The best quote in the article is this one; "If it's not reasonable and it's not necessary, we're held to the same standards the general public is held to."

Riiiight.  And when was the last time you saw an on-duty cop driving the speed limit?  Was he using his lights with his windshield wipers?  How about, was he talking on a cell phone without using a hands free device?  Maybe that's how things work in Washington.  But I doubt it.

10-11-2005

If you fellas would excuse me I have an idiot to fire.

A new report is out that ranks the states from smartest to dumbest.  Interestingly enough Massachusetts came in first but New York was a respectable 6th place.  With the exception of Wisconsin, the top 6 are all New England states.  Hmmm.

Not surprisingly Florida was 39th and the bottom three were Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.  California was number 43.  I'm thinking the huge populations of illegal immigrants in those states probably didn't help their rankings any.  Maybe if they gave tests in school in Spanish they'd improve.