Sunday, April 25, 2004

flipping off old people
today i went to burger king in redmond. outside there was a bunch of anti-abortion protestors ... apparently burger king, warehouse music, bank of america and the bon homestore are big abortion supporters, last time i checked, there were no abortion clinics anywhere near there ... but i digress. Anyway, as we drove by, both Kc and I instinctively flipped off the various dummies standing around being ignorant and contradictory. You see, a large number of people who are "Christian" and against abortion are also FOR the death penalty. Now, that seems odd to me, but then again, I don't take a book written two thousand years ago by a handful of marginally literate people with their own political and social agendas that has been translated and retranslated 8 million times at face value. If we can't even agree on who killed Kennedy when we have it on videotape, I'd have to argue that the historical record about jesus is probably a little flawed as well ... but again, i digress. my point here is that, upon further review, all the people standing around with their signs emblazoned with catchy anti-abortion slogans were incapable of having children even if they wanted to. it's true. all of them fit into one of a few following categories: 1) Geriatric old women 2) Middle aged men or 3) Children. There was one woman who looked to be about 40, but from the looks of her I doubt anyone is trying very hard to lay any pipeline through that swampy forest. so there you go, the slogan of the day should have been, "My reproductive organs are not condusive to housing a fetus and therefore my opinion is amazingly relevant in the public discussion of whether or not abortion should be legal." (That quote was meant to be sarcastic, I don't know if that was clear.)

now that i have exhausted the controversial part of this post, on to ...

the beauty of irony
While sitting behind a convertable at a stoplight today I noticed the convertables licence plate frame: "Happiness is the wind through my hair." Now, since this is Seattle and the temperature rose above 54 degrees today, the top of this convertable was, of course, down. Where's the irony, you might ask? well, the dude driving the car was COMPLETELY BALD. Not by choice mind you, he was sporting the all too popular cul-de-sac of baldness many men in their middle aged years sport as a result of hairloss. A more apt licence plate frame should have read, "Happiness is the feeling of thousands of insects ricocheting off my freshly polished scull." Kc took a picture, but unfortunately you cant read the license plate frame or even really see the dudes head ... sun and shadows, damn. oh well.

New feature
recently a news story broke that George Bush was assured by the Saudis that they will see to it that gas prices go down in the fall to ensure a strong American economy to help Bush's re-election. The Bush administration, of course, denies this. Cut to Kc and me drinking beers on the porch last night. As has become custom with us recently, we stood on the porch and looked across the street at the Chevron station marveling at the ever rising price of gas. through an only slightly drunken haze we decided that, since there is a gas station right across the street, we should keep a daily tally of what happens with gas prices in the following months. For the last 2 weeks the price of gas has continually gone up, we were crapping ourselves when it was $1.89 two weeks ago, now its $2.07(!). so, from now on, we'll take a picture every day and post it on the web. maybe i'll get super industrious and make a line graph. It'll be fun. almost as fun as theorizing about the probability that we are experiencing the first stages of peak oil. here's the first photo:

and finally ...

EARTH VERSUS ME USER POLL
has this blog become way too political and, therefore, boring? leave a comment and let me know. For various reasons, I find the current situation of world politics super interesting, but others might not feel the same way, what are your thoughts?

yar