A Rubber Door

I’m sorry for this blog being so political at times. My new music review is coming soon, BUT - as my girlfriend said, it’s like Christmas in July.

Tom Delay Indicted in Campaign Finance Probe

I take great relish in saying to anyone that voted for George Bush and his band of thugs:

I TOLD YOU SO!

First the Michael Brown debacle, then the hijacking of the supreme court, and now this. I am too pessimistic to think that most Republicans will care that their representatives are so thuggish - but I can still smile and say:

I told you so.

So today Michael Brown blamed the governor, mayor, media, Office of Homeland Security, Santa Claus, and a variety of corpses for the failures of the government post Hurricane Katrina. Now yes, he is technically correct that there is blame to go all around, but what kind of leader steps in, says ” I know what I’m doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it” and then proceeds to lay blame at others feet. He’s a Bush style leader - it’s never your fault even in view of overwhelming evidence otherwise. Brown: “My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional,” two days before the storm hit, Brown said. What a fucking cop-out - that’s how you answer interview questions: “My biggest fault is working to hard.”

My friend Grace summed it up: “the enitre band of thugs known as Republicans is the biggest bunch of pussies I have ever seen”

Funny picture of a billboard at Mission and Duboce in San Fransisco. Saw this on Adrants.

Yahoo and Google are all that’s left of the portal wars of the late 90’s. I use Yahoo all the time because of its breadth of service. There is almost nothing online that Yahoo doesn’t provide. It galls me that they don’t pay any attention to Mac owners. How do they hate us? Let me count the ways:

• Yahoo Messenger hasn’t been updated in years. While AOL and MSN upgrade their product often for the Mac, Yahoo has abandoned the Mac version. None of the new features available on the Windows version are available on the Mac version: stealth settings, animated emoticons, launch player, environments, etc. None of these are available for Mac users. Hint: use the excellent IM client Adium as a replacement; it replaces MSN Messenger, AOL, Jabber, and others.
• Launchcast, Yahoo’s music station only supports no Mac browsers. If Yahoo would provide support to mozilla browsers like Firefox it would cover up a lot of problems, but most of their products run only in Windows IE.
• With Stattracker for fantasy football, the new version only runs on Windows IE. All other users pay the same amount of money and get the “classic” version. (If you’re not clear, classic means that Yahoo is too cheap to provide service to anyone else than windows owners).

You would think that Yahoo would go a long way to provide cross-platform support since it chips away at an advantage that Microsoft has. I’m not asking that Yahoo do as much for mac users as they do for windows owners, but they have a long way to go to be considered mac-friendly. By simply providing support to Firefox for all of their features, mac owners would be able to access more features.

Tyra Banks’ breasts are real! Now we can all turn back to coverage of the supreme court votes and Hurricane Rita.

So yes - I’m one of those that opens public bathroom doors with a paper towel. After reading this post about a study into how many people wash their hands - 25% of men don’t. It’s the simpliest step to staying healthy the article says.

Jesus Christ folks. Where do you have to go that you can’t wash your fucking hands for 20 seconds?

So today I turn either a old 28 or a young 37.

Michael Brown resigned today and has gone back to the actual dog and pony show as opposed to the literal one he’s run for the past few years. If I had just waited two seconds to post my previous message. Of course Michael Brown should have been a per hour laborer.

Check CNN.