Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow

Even though Al Gore says a lot of stuff that makes me shake my head in frustration, a comment he made recently really made my blood boil. Gore was essentially slamming the media, and about how they focus on really trivial stuff like Britney Spears shaving her head and things of that nature. I think this is pretty funny coming from him since it was that same example of the media focusing on asinine topics that allowed his wife to rally support when she decided to start her little crusade against filthy language in music with the creation of the PRMC. I am pretty sure Al Gore wasn't screaming drivel from his pulpit about how trivial the media was when his wife was using it for her own purposes. As far as I'm concerned, the media talking about children having their minds warped by naughty words is equally as meaningless.

Anyway, Al Gore's quote essentially called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change, as opposed to what color pubic hair Lindsey Lohan currently has. I think if Gore had any desire to make this country a better place, he would be encouraging people to focus on issues that we as citizens can actually help change. Protesting the war in Iraq, outside of simply exercising the right to public discourse, is pretty meaningless at this point and most definitely a distraction from a lot of other issues that hit way closer to home. Where is the rallying cry for revamping our court system, or perhaps our public schools? Obviously, I'm not breaking new ground as those are topics that still get attention, but I think issues like that are way more important than beating the dead horse that is the Iraq war. There is going to be a solution to Iraq and I guarantee it isn't going to come as the result of one of my friends voicing his opinion on the war. A shitty war should definitely be the subject of outrage, but Iraq has gotten so much that a lot of other stuff is being ignored and I really think it was shortsighted of Mr. Gore to convey that we should focus all of our attention in only two places.

Where quantity is job # 1

Today I had to go to the hospital to hang out with my friend Casey who has suddenly become ill. I'm assuming that a few of you out there have been to at least one restaraunt so what I have to say might come as somewhat of a suprise. Restaraunts usually have comment cards so that people can rate their service, usually on a scale of "this food tasted like pig vomit" to "wow, this restaraunt experience was like an orgasm in my mouth!" Sitting on my friend Casey's hospital tray was a hospital comment card. Now, I don't know about any of you guys but the last thing I want to be doing while I'm laid up in a hospital is fill out one of those things. Maybe they keep them there to kill boredom for the people who forget to bring a book with them after they fell off the roof while installing Christmas lights. My question is, "do they give them to everybody?" What if a person is just really fucked up when they come in and do they urge you to tell your friends about the place??

Aside from getting my face bit off by a Crocodile, I would just to say that my stay at Cottage Hospital was absoutely delightful. The nurses were completely polite as they fed me chicken broth through a tube and I was able to catch the Lakers game on ESPN due to the amazing cable programming they offer. I am going to tell everyone I know to come to Cottage Hospital for it was an experience I"ll never forget.

Finding a nice thing to say about a hospital is pretty hard, it's not exactly a place you go to enjoy yourself so my suggestion is for Cottage Hospital to take those comment cards and forcefully insert them into the rectal area of the person who came up with the idea.

I'm really getting sick of this god forsaken place

New Rule - War protesters shouldn't be allowed to protest on an overpass that goes over one of the BUSIEST GOD DAMN HIGHWAYS IN CALIFORNIA!!!! I was driving to class yesterday afternoon when traffic on the 101 came to a screeching halt. Big deal, happens all the time, or so I thought. As I'm slowly creeping up the highway I noticed a huge crowd of people on the overpass above me, about 500 feet up the road. As I got closer I saw a 5 car pileup on the other side of the freeway underneath the overpass that these war protesters have lined up on. Once I got under the overpass I realized that traffic on my side of the highway wasn't backed up due to an accident, but it was because everyone was slowing down to honk and look at the morons on top of the overpass. The proof being that once I cleared the overpass, traffic sped up again ferociously.

Fortunately, all the slack jawed gawkers on my side of the highway only managed to slow traffic down for about 15 minutes, but I wish I could say the same for the other side of the highway. Some douchebag who was probably looking up at the assholes on the overpass, when he should have been looking ahead at the cars in front of him, ended up causing an accident on the freeway involving not only himself, but several others.

Now, I am sure the war protesters would say something like "were just doing our part to bring down bush and his war machine man!!!"

Thats fine(and silly if you actually believe you and your 20 friends lining up on a bridge in Santa Barbara, California is actually going to cause George W. Bush to look at his watch and say, Well, golly geeee, those 25 guys in Santa Barbara really got me thinking about how shitty this war is, I think i'm going to bring our troops home,) but do it someplace where you won't be a distraction to traffic driving 80mph down the fucking highway. People in California drive bad enough as it is with all the other distractions they have to deal with.

-Cellphones
-Television Monitors in their fucking steering wheels
-If they're mexican, the 10 children in the backseat of their car.
-Drinking their overpriced lattees from Starbucks.
-Driving in the rain, since nobody out here knows how to do it.
-Fiddling around with their GPS trackers that I'm sure they use to find Starbucks and other nonessential places since nobody here drives any farther than 5 miles without complaining about how fucking far they have to go.

Celebrating the feast of maximum occupancy

I haven't updated this thing in a while simply because I have been swamped with school work. The end of the semester is approaching, and needless to say I am pretty stoked about that.

Something happened in my history class today that has me a little confused. We were discussing the protestant reformation, you know, Martin Luther and all that jazz. At any rate, I was really suprised at the amount of people in my class that had absolutely no concept of what a christian really is. I'm no scholar of the bible, or even religion but I always thought knowing that protestants and catholics both fell under the rather large umbrella of christianity was common knowledge. People seemed so confused about it and even though my professor explained it in dum-dum terms after seeing a bunch of blank stares, I still think a lot of people left that class being confused as hell.