Greetings ladies and gents, hope everyone's week is going well. This past week has been kind of dull news wise. I personally just want spring break to be here. I also don't really have anyone worthy of a weekly shout-out so I guess I'll skip that too. I did however just got done writing a paper about abortion and how the views on it differ cross-culturally throughout the world. I also just saw something fascinating on CNN, a small toddler less than 2 years old is using medical marijuana, what has our world come to? Oh and some crap is going on in Wisconsin or something.
That's right, a small toddler is now using medical marijuana to treat the side effects of brain tumor medication. Isn't that a tad bit ridiculous? I really hope the child makes it through everything but giving him marijuana at that age seems over the top. Is there really nothing else they can give the kid? Also to put things on the record, I am actually for the distribution of medical marijuana.
And some stuff is going on in Wisconsin. Stephen Colbert hilariously referred it to trouble in the middle-west, a parody to the news headline in Egypt, trouble in the middle-east. Democratic state senators actually fled the state in an effort to disallow the voting on a bill that in their view would crash the state economy. If you want to find out more, watch last night's Colbert Report, it was pretty awesome. If you really want to know what's going on, go check a news website or something.
Now on to that paper I wrote about Abortion. Let me just say that China is absolutely ridiculous when it comes to their abortion policy. They actually force mothers to abort their fetuses if they see any genetic abnormality or think they are not strong enough to continue the genetic line. What they are doing is nothing short of what the Spartans did when they threw out babies that they saw as weak. I want to say that I am for abortion. I believe the mother has the right to choose whether to have her baby or not past a certain point. If you're nearing the 3rd trimester, you probably should've decided whether you wanted to have the baby or not. When it gets to that point, it should only be a medical emergency to allow an abortion.
Anyways, kind of a boring blog post, but I wanted to get it done before I left for work and nothing really interesting has happened. I hope everyone has an awesome week and if you're in college an awesome spring break. As always, in the words of the great Ron Burgundy, "You stay classy, Planet Earth."
The Weekly Show! Yes I know, a rip off of "The Daily Show". Sue me, I dare you! Once a week I'll write about whatever I feel like writing about and that is that.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
February 16th: Valentine's Day and Bieber Losing
Good afternoon ladies and gents, hope everyone's week is going well. I know this is a few days later than I usually blog but I figured I'd post something in lieu of studying for a test I have tomorrow. Some interesting things going on this past week include the ousting of Mubarak, Justin Bieber losing best new artist, and the ever dreaded Valentine's day. So, has anyone tried to study for a test for a class they know nothing about? I attended every class but one this semester yet I know little about it. I usually screw around on facebook or nfl.com and the professors dry teaching style doesn't really help either. This week's shout out goes to my boss, Jodi Munster for giving me tonight off so I can study for my test. Enough about my boring life, let's get in to some sort of news.
Last week Hosini Mubarak finally resigned as the president of Egypt after a largely peaceful revolution started on Facebook and Twitter. Finally these pointless wastes of time were used for something constructive. For now the military is under control until the Egyptians can hold a democratic election. Something tells me they are far from accomplishing democracy, but good for them.
This past Monday was everyone's favorite holiday of the year, Valentine's day. If you didn't sense my sarcasm in that last sentence, please go take an IQ test. Anyways, my valentine's day was spent working, attempting to study and playing video games. It's probably the most depressing time of the year for anyone who doesn't have a significant other and it's even annoying for those who do have one. It's a stupid, commercialized holiday that we Americans take way out of proportion. Do you know what Valentine's day is really celebrating? The clubbing and beheading of St. Valentine, a Catholic priest in Rome who performed illegal marriages for young couples. Yeah, that's right, think about that when you're having a romantic dinner with your loved one after buying them an expensive, meaningless present.
Sunday night was the 53rd annual Grammy awards. I'll be honest and say I don't really care about the Grammys but the news I heard the next day made my week. Justin Bieber, who is perhaps the most overrated, annoying human being on this planet lost the best new artist award to a relatively unknown woman, Esperanza Spalding. Of course this generated much negative tension among the Bieber worshiping community consisting of 12 to 16 year old girls. Look at his video for "Baby" on Youtube, it has more dislikes than likes. Not only that but he is referenced in a negative way in almost every single music video under comments. When is this little kid going to realize that no one likes him and he's better off doing finger painting in grade school. How old is he? 12? 13? Who knows. But what I do know is I may listen to this Esperanza Spalding just because she beat Bieber.
Not much is going on in the NFL as of late. They still haven't reached a new labor agreement and if they don't by the beginning of March, there might not be football next season, which could be devastating. At least I got my Red Sox coming up in the spring and the Celtics who are doing pretty well, but even those two sports don't come close to football for me.
Well, that's all I have for this week. I think I'm going to attempt to study for this test but probably fail miserably. In the words of the great Ron Burgundy, "You stay classy, Planet Earth."
Last week Hosini Mubarak finally resigned as the president of Egypt after a largely peaceful revolution started on Facebook and Twitter. Finally these pointless wastes of time were used for something constructive. For now the military is under control until the Egyptians can hold a democratic election. Something tells me they are far from accomplishing democracy, but good for them.
This past Monday was everyone's favorite holiday of the year, Valentine's day. If you didn't sense my sarcasm in that last sentence, please go take an IQ test. Anyways, my valentine's day was spent working, attempting to study and playing video games. It's probably the most depressing time of the year for anyone who doesn't have a significant other and it's even annoying for those who do have one. It's a stupid, commercialized holiday that we Americans take way out of proportion. Do you know what Valentine's day is really celebrating? The clubbing and beheading of St. Valentine, a Catholic priest in Rome who performed illegal marriages for young couples. Yeah, that's right, think about that when you're having a romantic dinner with your loved one after buying them an expensive, meaningless present.
Sunday night was the 53rd annual Grammy awards. I'll be honest and say I don't really care about the Grammys but the news I heard the next day made my week. Justin Bieber, who is perhaps the most overrated, annoying human being on this planet lost the best new artist award to a relatively unknown woman, Esperanza Spalding. Of course this generated much negative tension among the Bieber worshiping community consisting of 12 to 16 year old girls. Look at his video for "Baby" on Youtube, it has more dislikes than likes. Not only that but he is referenced in a negative way in almost every single music video under comments. When is this little kid going to realize that no one likes him and he's better off doing finger painting in grade school. How old is he? 12? 13? Who knows. But what I do know is I may listen to this Esperanza Spalding just because she beat Bieber.
Not much is going on in the NFL as of late. They still haven't reached a new labor agreement and if they don't by the beginning of March, there might not be football next season, which could be devastating. At least I got my Red Sox coming up in the spring and the Celtics who are doing pretty well, but even those two sports don't come close to football for me.
Well, that's all I have for this week. I think I'm going to attempt to study for this test but probably fail miserably. In the words of the great Ron Burgundy, "You stay classy, Planet Earth."
Monday, February 7, 2011
Feburary 7th: The Super Bowl and The Green River Killer
I know what you may be thinking, no the Super Bowl and the Green River killer have nothing in common. That being said, I hope everyone had a good week and lets get into some news, or sort of news in our case. Before I start I'd like to give a shout out to my friend and former roommate Justin Belanger. He's currently somewhere in Missouri participating in basic training for the national guard. I saw pictures of him and his battalion and that was a nice treat. So to Justin and the rest of the Charlie 795th Police Battalion (The Comanches), good luck with the rest of your training and Justin we're throwing you a huge welcome home party this summer, get ready for it!
To keep you updated on the Egypt situation, anti-government protesters formed a giant human chain in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a major town square in Cairo. They aren't planning on moving until Mubarak is out of office. Some of the photos were quite interesting. One such photo was one of a man who was an anti-government protester, he was guarding the barricade at Tahrir Square wearing a plastic bowl as a helmet. You can tell that they were really well equipped when they have to resort to wearing plastic bowls. How can you take them seriously? You know who else wears plastic bowls on their heads? Kids playing fort. Does anyone else remember playing fort? Ahh...good times.
On to the Green River Killer. As you may know, Gary Ridgeway or the "Green River Killer" was a notorious serial killer who murdered nearly 50 women in the Washington State area throughout the 1970, 80's and 90's. He is now being convicted of his 49th murder. He was not executed due to making a deal after he was initially charged with the murders of four women. The deal was if he confessed to concurrent murders, he would not receive the death penalty, instead he would receive life in prison with no parole. He is now about to be charged with a 49th consecutive life sentence. This is what I never understood about our justice system. I'm against capital punishment but what is with these consecutive life sentences. The guy already has no possibility of parole. I guess it's a way for the families of the victims to have some sort of justice even though it's basically beating a dead horse.
So the Super Bowl in my opinion was kind of a disappointment compared to past ones. The game started out rather slow but at least it picked up towards the end. However the almost climactic ending was shattered when Ben Roethlisberger threw an incomplete pass to Mike Wallace to turn the ball over on downs with less than a minute to go when the Steelers were trailing by 6 points, 25-31. Not only was the game anti-climactic but the commercials were sub-par. I expected at least 1 or 2 good Bud Light commercials but I didn't get any. The only memorable one that I found hilarious was the Teleflora one. I'm not going to get into detail in this blog because that would just ruin the commercial for those who didn't see it or didn't remember it. If you want to watch it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvGBkT-fHMI.
Now the biggest moment of the night, the halftime show. The Black Eyed Peas headlined with cameo appearances by Usher and Slash. I'll give the show an A for the lighting, the dancing, and the ridiculously funny costumes the Peas were dressed in. Their actual performance I'll give a C, as it was pretty much what I expected from a group like the Black Eyed Peas. However Fergie's cover of "Sweet Child o' Mine" should of never happened. It was a travesty. Fergie isn't a bad singer but she sounded terrible singing that song, which is a classic. Slash came in with a guitar cameo and sounded awesome, however he looked a little robotic. Fergie was also using him as a human strip pole which also didn't help. Was anyone else rooting for a Fergie "wardrobe malfunction"?
That's all I got for this week. I'll be back next week with some stuff that most people probably don't care about. In the words of the great Ron Burgundy "You stay classy Planet Earth."
To keep you updated on the Egypt situation, anti-government protesters formed a giant human chain in Cairo's Tahrir Square, a major town square in Cairo. They aren't planning on moving until Mubarak is out of office. Some of the photos were quite interesting. One such photo was one of a man who was an anti-government protester, he was guarding the barricade at Tahrir Square wearing a plastic bowl as a helmet. You can tell that they were really well equipped when they have to resort to wearing plastic bowls. How can you take them seriously? You know who else wears plastic bowls on their heads? Kids playing fort. Does anyone else remember playing fort? Ahh...good times.
On to the Green River Killer. As you may know, Gary Ridgeway or the "Green River Killer" was a notorious serial killer who murdered nearly 50 women in the Washington State area throughout the 1970, 80's and 90's. He is now being convicted of his 49th murder. He was not executed due to making a deal after he was initially charged with the murders of four women. The deal was if he confessed to concurrent murders, he would not receive the death penalty, instead he would receive life in prison with no parole. He is now about to be charged with a 49th consecutive life sentence. This is what I never understood about our justice system. I'm against capital punishment but what is with these consecutive life sentences. The guy already has no possibility of parole. I guess it's a way for the families of the victims to have some sort of justice even though it's basically beating a dead horse.
So the Super Bowl in my opinion was kind of a disappointment compared to past ones. The game started out rather slow but at least it picked up towards the end. However the almost climactic ending was shattered when Ben Roethlisberger threw an incomplete pass to Mike Wallace to turn the ball over on downs with less than a minute to go when the Steelers were trailing by 6 points, 25-31. Not only was the game anti-climactic but the commercials were sub-par. I expected at least 1 or 2 good Bud Light commercials but I didn't get any. The only memorable one that I found hilarious was the Teleflora one. I'm not going to get into detail in this blog because that would just ruin the commercial for those who didn't see it or didn't remember it. If you want to watch it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvGBkT-fHMI.
Now the biggest moment of the night, the halftime show. The Black Eyed Peas headlined with cameo appearances by Usher and Slash. I'll give the show an A for the lighting, the dancing, and the ridiculously funny costumes the Peas were dressed in. Their actual performance I'll give a C, as it was pretty much what I expected from a group like the Black Eyed Peas. However Fergie's cover of "Sweet Child o' Mine" should of never happened. It was a travesty. Fergie isn't a bad singer but she sounded terrible singing that song, which is a classic. Slash came in with a guitar cameo and sounded awesome, however he looked a little robotic. Fergie was also using him as a human strip pole which also didn't help. Was anyone else rooting for a Fergie "wardrobe malfunction"?
That's all I got for this week. I'll be back next week with some stuff that most people probably don't care about. In the words of the great Ron Burgundy "You stay classy Planet Earth."
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