Approaching forty days and forty nights with only The New York Times as a news source. Kind of biblical. Not unlike the Times recent three part front-page series basically welcoming Intelligent Design into mainstream science education. Nothing like giving idiots a platform to speak, I always say.
It all follows some rule of journalism that I missed (must have been hung-over that day). Just as long as there are two sides to any controversy, the new rule says, give them equal time and weight in your coverage.
On the positive side, it gives me hope that my new non-profit project has hope. I am thinking of starting an organization based on atheism and flaws in the current theory of algebra. My organization will raise money and promote the idea that God never lived, that you are on your own, and that the overwhelming statistical likelihood that most children will never use algebra again after college, means that current math theory should be taken with a grain of salt. I know it is a disconnected set of ideas, but since I modeled it closely after Intelligent Design, I am very hopeful that I will be paying myself a six-figure salary as soon as atheists unite around this cause.
There is only one other area of news today that I need to touch on, before I move on to my new pre-occupation (lack of blogging has been bad for my intellect, but I am becoming a world class on-line poker player, I can tell you that). The news from Iraq. The New York Times has basically broken it down into two stories today. Two war stories. Here is what they are about. The first war story is about a lying politician, who did everything in his power to avoid fighting in a war when he was a young man, who gave a speech about the war he lied us into as an old man. The second war story, is about the government that has been formed under our imperial occupation, and how they can’t really meet their own legal deadlines for adopting a constitution, but how they bent the rules to do so anyway. That is the war news. I’m not sure if anyone was blown up today (yesterday, two days ago, whatever). I mean, on average, it seems that at least a few American G.I.s get wasted everyday, and ten times that many Iraqis. I just can’t tell through the fog of war blown by the Times today.
One note on the lying politician. Yesterday, he gave a speech to veterans. Many veterans are quoted about how they support this idiot. I am a veteran. If I am representative, then most veterans loathe his stupid ass. Just for balance to the Times coverage. Also, the lying politician said something in his speech that disturbed me. He said something to the effect of “we will honor the memory of the fallen U.S. soldiers in Iraq, by ensuring that this mission is accomplished.” My problems with this idiocy are many. First, wasn’t the mission accomplished when the lying politician landed on the aircraft carrier and lied to us. That is what the sign said. Second, what the fuck is the mission at this point? Third, by this logic, shouldn’t we be like still fighting in Korea and Vietnam. Is the lying idiot advocating that we re-open the war on those fronts. You don’t honor the dead by killing the living, you fucking feeb. For you to urge us to do so, playing on our emotions, is disgusting and disingenuous. It reaks. This is one veteran that would be throwing shit at you, if I wasn’t cleared from the auditorium in advance. (Just rotten fruit, or pies – I am a non-violent protestor – the secret service can stand down). Don’t insult us with this bullshit. Bring the troops home you fucking moron. Or get your fucking flight jacket on and bust over to Mosul or Falluja or Baghdad and spend the rest of your time making up for your deficient National Guard Service. I am a little to sick of your dumb ass to listen anymore. Fuck.
Ah. The hidden rant. Very stress relieving. See you all in a week or so.
I am done. Can’t wait to come home to the blogs.
