Can’t sleep. It’s 4AM.

Esquire names ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’

Scarlett Johansson says she would rather be admired for attributes other than sex appeal.
“What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?”

Scarlett, I somehow don’t believe you. After all, you did agree to participate in Esquire’s photospread:

On the cover, she wears a bra and a white Calvin Klein mini-dress; In a series of photos inside (showing her as an “enigmatic trailer-park temptress,” the magazine says), she wears cleavage-baring black lingerie paired with an open white robe, among other get-ups.

I hate most celebrities. (Yeah, I know, I also hate most people, so I don’t have much of a point here).

Did I mention it’s 4AM? I could probably ramble on about a few dozen or so news stories I’ve read today, and all of the rambles would probably have a misanthropic theme.

Two slices of cold pizza from Mellow Mushroom, topped with gorgonzola and basil
Washed down with some Diet Cheerwine!

The pizza was great; the Diet Cheerwine, not so much.

Meanwhile, two grapefruits and two apples continue to age in my cubicle…

Herman – Contentment
Originally uploaded by toastie97.

New pics of my happy, handsome boy

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The good news is that details from Bob Woodward’s new book State of Denial are suddenly exploding on the scene, and he’s detailing all the deception of the Bush adminstration regarding Iraq. I’m listening to NBC Nightly News right now… It’s yet another book about the fiasco in Iraq (including one called Fiasco). If any author has credibility, Woodward’s got it.

The bad news is, the Senate is about to give Bush permission to hold anyone he wants as long as he wants and, essentially, to continue torturing. (That compromise with McCain, etc. basically just says that the Senate doesn’t condone it but the President has the freedom to do whatever is necessary; feel free to correct me, as I’ve forgotten exactly what the “compromise”/ploy-to-appear-not-to-blindly-follow-Bush accomplished.

And the ugly…Bush accusing Democrats as being “the party of cut and run” today in Alabama.

CNN’s current QuickVote:
“Which country do you trust more as an ally in the war on terror?”

They don’t even capitalize “war on terror”, because they know it’s not a real war. It’s been said time and time again since 9/11, that you can’t have a war on a tactic, but it’s never been said by anyone with strong political or military visibility. It’s so idiotic. Let’s just call it was it is, a war on Islamic extremism. It’s a war on the religious belief that killing yourself for Allah will bring you eternal glory. It’s not even a war on a tactic. We don’t have a strategy to fight the tactic of attempting to randomly mass-murder innocent people. Even if we did, what we’d essentially have is a war on mass-murder. And why is a random murder worse than a targeted killing? We might as well have a global war on murder.

Ah, but we do have a global war on murder. It takes its form on the fairly universal principle that murder is a crime with harsh punishment. That’s why John Kerry, to his political detriment, called the war on terror something that needed to be fought through law enforcement.

I’m just being completely honest here. You’re a traitor today to say that the war on terror is bullshit. But I think that it is. I’m not saying all of our military endeavors are pointless. We should be pursuing terrorists who wish us harm. But let’s be honest and call the pursuit what it is, a war on violent Islamic extremists.

Dear World,

I was a nice guy this time, but the next time a preppy young dickwad comes to my door to sell me magazine subscriptions so he can get points to go to Fiji under the premise of building his communication skills and self-esteem, I’m going to beat him to a bloody pulp. I will teach Herman to eat him. Yes, I will teach my dog to assist me in murdering door-to-door MTV-Spring-Break-wannabe magazine salespeople.

Misanthropically Yours,
Dave

*to my non-public entry in which I renounced violence (if only under the premise that I would not subject my pets to premature euthanization or foster care).

It just occurred to me that the man who described the internet as a series of tubes is only three heartbeats away from the Presidency.

Bush->Cheney->Hastert->Stevens->Rice->Paulson->Rumsfeld->Gonzalez->Kempthorne->Johanns->Leavitt->Jackson->Bodman->Spelling->Nicholson

I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I think I’ll pray for Bush’s health until the next Congress is sworn in. By then, hopefully the line of succession will be Bush->Cheney->Pelosi->Byrd. Imagine a female San Francisco liberal as President.

…as opposed to Raleigh.

Number of Prii I see in the parking lots of my apartment complex other than my own: 0
Number of Prii I see in the parking deck at work (roughly the same amount of cars as apt complex): 5

I realize this difference is more a function of the employers at the ATC rather than where the employees live, but my point is that you can tell a little something about a demographic by how many Prius owners are among it. I am perhaps only 1/4 mile within the city limits of Raleigh, but I still feel a vacuum of progressive thought. I live in a rental community for God’s sake, and there’s still a lot more Ford Explorers than there are Honda Civics.

White House squelches science on global warming yet again

Polls suggest Americans are most concerned about Iraq, the “war on terror” (a term that future generations will surely mock; I’ll say it again, we might as well have a war on hernias, too), and gas prices. Americans are still not concerned about global warming, though, and it doesn’t help that the President can’t even acknowledge its reality. It doesn’t help that, whether the issue is stem cell research, reading programs, or global warming, the President ignores science. When we have a president who ignores science, it should be no surprise that the country as a whole continues to fall further and further behind the rest of the developed world.