| | rant 233: I'm sorry, ms. palin, and I am for real...
I have a love/hate relationship with David Letterman. On one hand, I love that he has the balls to not only go forth with a bad joke - something about Sarah Palin's daughter getting knocked up by Alex Rodriguez - but also to mildly defend himself while inviting her on the show (see this: http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/06/david-letterman-responds-to-flap-over-sarah-palin-jokes.html). At the same time, I'm annoyed with him for bringing her back into the spotlight.
This is a woman who just needs to go the hell away, slurk (made-up word, but I'm rambling, so it's cool) back into the mines of Alaska and stay there until I'm no longer drawing breath. Seriously, is it really necessary to continually give publicity to an air-head, egotistical beauty queen who is running the largest land mass in the union while not being able to speak on any kind of intellectual level? Please, just go away, and while you're away with your daughter and her baby's daddy, please learn how to inrepret a fucking joke correctly. If anything, it's about Alex Rodriguez more than her duaghters. I don't see him complaining. Why? Because he knows that being fodder for Letterman and co. is part of the price he pays for who he is and what he chose to do with his life. Dummy.
Went garage saling (made-up, albeit-commonly-used verb, but my poetic license just was reinstated) today. Got some good finds for our apartment in Chicago, but the most interesting thing was the trend of analog televisions being unloaded for next-to nothing. I'm not quite sure I understand the point of everyone switching to digital. If it was really a money/energy saver that was worth it, wouldn't the television stations have already done it? I also think analog signals need to be opened up if the technology isn't going to be used anymore. I mean, the whole point of restricting analog, if I remember correctly, was that the competing signals would be counter-productive/wasteful. I've probably been misinfiormed, but it would be cool if they just let anyone broadcast whatever the hell they want on analog.
While I'm riffing glibertarian (stupid portmanteau neologism copyrighted by moi), I'd like to express my disgruntlement over the current debate over health care. I'd be okay with fully government-funded health care, I really would, because I view it as a universal necessity on par with military spending...as long as it's properly funded and taxed. I'd also be okay with government apathy and complete privatization. What I'm not okay with is spending 60 years completely ignoring budgetary concerns while promising benefits that outweigh what people put into the system because technological advances affect health care spending habits and then all of a sudden - during an issue-ridden recession, mind you - realizing that something needs to be done about it because we're losing money at an alarming rate.
It really annoys me that people want a lot more out of something than they're willing to put in and think it's not only a good idea but indefinitealy sustainable.
Anyway, I need to move on. 'Til next time I have a half-hour to kill, my precious neglected xanga page, 'til next time.
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| | Posted 6/13/2009 9:29 PM - 11 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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