here's an update on the nimby story: the city council rejected the plan. not surprised. i wonder if target will follow the footsteps of walmart, who has sued municipalities when they were denied similar approval. you'd think that would make people not shop at such a store, who sues a city, but they do.
state of the union update: my take is this, i watched almost all of it. i started to take notes, my own little thoughts and such. then, i got tired of that. when it was all said and done, my thoughts are these: whatever. speaches are speaches, let's see what really happens in the next year. perhaps there should be a report card based on the previous year's s.o.t.u.
dang, jimmy kimmel just showed the person who gets to a car and a ride to the superbowl. it's not me. go seattle. tonights guests were kid rock and dag. dag's funny, but he can be a bit too much sometimes. like when he's on love lines. he started out with a funny line about not seeing so many white people in detroit since '67. he wasn't too much toninght.
adam had a post the other day about assassins. the conversation was regarding movies, as we had just seen the matador. anyway, i saw this article and it reminded me of the post. the articles isn't really on the same "why do we like assassins" bend, more on the impetus for the discussion, "maybe we're being buttered up by all these movies."
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(ha ha. Now you have to put word verification on your blog too.)
I don't like watching movies about assassins. I like movies where peopletalk a lot. About relationships.
OK, I read that guerrilla news article. By buttered up, do you mean romanticizing assassination in the minds of the american public so that we take things like these remote killings easier?
yes. and, when it hits closer to home, and some president tells us, "he was a target that had to be taken out. it's unfortunate that we had to blow him up, but he was dangerous. remember, it's hard work being president."
I was listening to people arguing about the domestic spying program the other day, and I thought "That's just like in 24, where Ace, the bully from Stand By Me, has to break all kinds of our nation's laws to protect our nation from the bad guys."
Then I passed out from the heavy thinking.
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