Maroon 5: "Wake Up Call"

I go through these spells of listening to music.

Maroon 5's "Wake Up Call" got me... just listening to the ups &
downs in it.

DEVO homage: YouTube - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEB0Xe2e76I

and while we're at it... here's Al Yankovic's page on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/alyankovic

he has a lot of great stuff on there... it's pretty low-bandwidth as
movies go, and of course...

IT'S ALL STUPID!

(but fun)

Jeff

Timothy Karr: Verizon Blocks Pro-Choice Text Messaging

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/verizon-blocks-prochoice_b_66058.html

"The Verizon network crowd that famously shadows users wherever they go"...

glorious new world of AHMADEINEJAD? I'm skeptical.

This is a follow-up to my previous post regarding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I watched as much of his speech at Columbia University as I could. It
was really really boring.

And scary.

I started watching the speech because I was curious after reading the
transcript of the interview of him at

http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/interviewing-ah.html

In the beginning of his speech at Columbia he pretty much re-defined
science as Discovering the Truth of Islam. There would have been a lot
of questions I would ask him, if I weren't sure that the answer would
be worthless. His glowing words of peace and tolerance in the earlier
interview would appear to be a ploy or at least a twisting of the
meaning. His tolerance is for those who accept Islam.

Just what we need is another bunch of religious people with guns telling
us what the truth is (or for that matter, any bunch of people with
guns). Another point to convince me that mixing religion with
government is poison.

Yours Skeptically,

Jeff

Now you can search Movie Reviews at The New York Times

http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/index.html

> Browse or search 28,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in
> the free review archive are all films reviewed since 1960, reviews
> of all Best Picture Academy Award winners, as well as The New York
> Times guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.

A benefit of them making their previous "for pay" site available to
us unwashed multitudes!

What religion, please tell me, tells you as a follower of that religion to occupy another country and kill its people? Please tell me. Does Christianity tell its followers to do that?

http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/interviewing-ah.html

> AHMADEINEJAD: Well, is Mr. Bush a religious man?
>
> PELLEY: Very much so. As you are.
>
> AHMADEINEJAD: What religion, please tell me, tells you as a
> follower of that religion to occupy another country and kill its
> people? Please tell me. Does Christianity tell its followers to do
> that? Judaism, for that matter? Islam, for that matter? What
> prophet tells you to send 160,000 troops to another country, kill
> men, women, and children? You just can't wear your religion on your
> sleeve or just go to church. You should be truthfully religious.
> Religion tells us all that you should respect the property, the
> life of different people. Respect human rights. Love your fellow
> man. And once you hear that a person has been killed, you should be
> saddened. You shouldn't sit in a room, a dark room, and hatch
> plots. And because of your plots, many thousands of people are
> killed. Having said that, we respect the American people. And
> because of our respect for the American people, we respectfully
> talk with President Bush. We have a respectful tone. But having
> said that, I don't think that that is a good definition of
> religion. Religion is love for your fellow man, brotherhood,
> telling the truth.
>
> PELLEY: I take it you can't think of anything you like about
> President Bush.
>
> AHMADEINEJAD: Well, I'm not familiar with the gentleman's private
> life. Maybe in his private life he is very kind or a determined
> man. I'm not aware of that. I base my judgment on what I see in his
> public life. Having said that, I think that President Bush can
> behave much better. There were golden opportunities for President
> Bush. He should have used them better.

Ok. So now I find myself in agreement with this guy I'm supposed to
hate. What a bummer.