Slashdot

1. "FREE" stuff (in exchange for "participating in member offers")
2. QuizRocket (jumping Jebus on a pogo stick, QuizRocket is evil)
3. GlobalWarmingHeartland and other "climate facts" sites
4. Expelled (Ben Stein's pro-creationism movie)
5. snitch on your company to the BSA

Someone needs to pay the ISP bills for the websites that I like to use. I'm much happier knowing that it's those folks.

Today I spent a few minutes in blogsearch about Mike Gravel switching to Libertarian. One of the blogs I pseudo-randomly browsed was "That's Right Nate". His views on Gravel were similar to mine (assuming he was being sarcastic about the New Deal being Libertarian), so I decided to read on. That's when I came to this:

Re-read that last sentence a few times. Nate prayed about these two opposing narratives before picking one to believe. He apparently continued to believe Rove's version right up to this week. The notion that one could find objective truth to support one story or the other never even crossed his mind.

I had always assumed this sort of behavior was (other than perhaps GWB himself) just a caricature. To see an ordinary person honestly making political decisions from his gut^H^H^HGod was appalling. It brought my opinion of the average US citizen to a new low.

I definitely need to rent Idiocracy ASAP.

I'm drafting the playlist for my neighborhood summer cookout (5th party so far, 4th with music, 3rd with a preplanned playlist). I've laid out a theme but need to about double the duration. So, I have two questions:

1. Have any song suggestions that fit the music style? (current list follows)
2. Is there a better site to ask this, like slashdot journal but for music?

2008 Block Party:

• Jesus Of Suburbia - Green Day
• Club America - The Cure
• People Are People - Depeche Mode
• They - Jem
• Television, the Drug of the Nation - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
• 16 Military Wives - The Decemberists
• Welcome To The Occupation - R.E.M.
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - They Might Be Giants
• The Bottom Line - Big Audio Dynamite
• Imagine This (Bush) - Wax Audio
• Better Way (War Mix) - Ben Harper
• Revolution - The Beatles
• Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman
• Yell Fire - Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Children Of The Revolution - Baby Ford
• Freewill - Rush
• Free - Phish
• I'm Free - The Soup Dragons
• The News - Carbon/Silicon

If somehow Hillary manages to pull a victory, I can't think of a more appropriate symbol of American ingenuity and resolve than: both Hillary and McCain picking Joe Lieberman as their respective running mates. It would be fabulous!

Alternately, we could all just skip past the next 8 months of ugliness straight to President-Elect Obama. Please. Either way would be fine.

p.s. Any thoughts on Obama's running mate? John Edwards? Ron Paul? Arianna Huffington?

...is the New York trifecta:

1. Hillary Clinton maintains her faux-mentum and sweeps the delegates!
2. Rudy Guiliani makes a shocking comeback and 9/11s his way to nomination!
3. Mike Bloomberg throws his moneybag into the ring!

Now all I need to do is figure out their running mates, and some scenario where Bloomberg gets a nonzero number of electors.

Purely for the aesthetic symmetry of it, I'd want HRC to win a one-term Presidency: Bush 88, Clinton 92, Clinton 96, Bush 00, Bush 04, Clinton 08. Then either she declines to run again (maybe Bill keeps sleeping with her interns) or, preferably, she loses the 2012 primary to a Neo-Dem upstart.