Fuck this.

Why am I still at the office for a bunch of rich people who won't even know my name?

First, going to the game tonight to see our future QB in action. Tickets were $10 a piece, so I couldn't pass them up.

Second, I think they are asking too much.

So, District 9 was just as awesome as everyone said it was.

Maybe the best movie I've seen all year-and if it wasn't for the exploding bodies, I would say it was Oscar worthy (it's Oscar worthy, but the exploding bodies limit the chances of that because of the stodgy voters).

...that if you don't want to get shot by LEOs, don't shoot at them first.

For God's sake, people, actions have consequences. And cops are trained to shoot when shot at--because it's an escalation of violence theory.

"I don't respect no police anyway". Yep, and I'm guessing that's why your friend got shot, jackass.

Penn & Teller's Bullshit

I'm not really surprised by the findings.

"Mental attitude " about sums up how I feel about this

And with the power of the internet, why do I feel like dowsers are looking at maps to assist in committing fraud? Well, fraud might be a strong word, unless they are getting cash for their services.

And why the hell was this story in the actual news section and not, let's say, in the Lifestyles section of the paper? Because it's not news.

Really they don't. Recently a bill was passed that would allow concealed fireams into National Parks. I don't see the problem with it--the people who have concealed carry permits and carry are rarely the people who randomly shoot people.

But here's my problem--people say that guns cause violence. They don't. What causes violence is that we are super smart apes that like hitting stuff. I guarantee that if ALL weapons magically vanished that within a day some one would grab a fallen branch and hit someone else with it.

Saying guns cause violence, for me at least, is much like saying that training in martial arts causes violence.

...Mrs. Hasslebeck.

Especially one who doesn't have time to bleed.

I may be at work, but at least I'm avoiding the noise of Blackhawks overhead.

And what was up with the Blackhawk sitting in the field in my complex last night?

Star Trek opens today and it's getting rave reviews. I refuse to see it. Why? Because it's fucking with the established timeline of the Trek universe.

I'm a comic book and sci-fi geek. I hate reboots with a passion. Sometimes things need reset because it's becoming confusing (see DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths) but usually they are done because some new jack-ass shows up on scene with the idea that he can make something better. The jack ass is usually wrong.

I am currently watching the original series. I'm nearly done with season one and it's a great show. The writing is far beyond most television shows, the acting is decent (sometimes wooden, but c'mon, we live in the generation of Keanu Reeves) and the special effects are mediocre at best. But what matters is that the show's foundation isn't the special effects but the writing and the characters. Most modern movies don't understand that. The Star War Prequels are the best example--crappy story, crappy writing, crappy characters and over the top effects.

But here are just some of my gripes from just the previews and reviews:

• The crew did not attend academy together. You never get that sense from the original series; at most it's possible that McCoy and Kirk know each other but that's it. The rest have been thrown together on a ship and that's where the frienship starts.
• Sulu doesn't know how to fence. He is shown fencing, but it's because he is a swashbuckler at heart and had a desire to learn fencing. So now he is a martial arts master?
• Both Kirk and Spock lust after Uhura? Um, no. Honestly, Uhura is the one woman in the series Kirk never lusts after. Random alien girl/android/Janis Rand? Sure. And Spock? There's that whole ponfar thing.

Why doesn't just take a shit over his own creations? You know, like Lost or Cloverfield? Right, because this is about making money so he's going to ignore the canon to make it "better."

Good luck with that, because no matter what the reviews say, STtOS is still going to kick this movie's ass when it comes to actual quality.

I'm running a basic self-defense course for my wife's dance students.

What the fuck am I getting myself into?

Swine Flu.

PANIC!

That is all.

It's the 10th anniversary of Columbine. I could care less.

Instead of using it as a springboard for understanding, better situational training for teachers, and maybe a chance to talk to children it instead has been used as anti-firearm rhetoric and to promote misunderstanding.

If this happened in an inner city school, it's not even a news story. But a bunch of rich, white privileged children get gunned down and it's scars a generation apparently.

Here are the two main things that always bothered me. One, two gunmen versus a high school full of kids and teachers, not to mention administrators. Numbers favor one side in this conflict, except when everyone is a coward. Two, the teachers released the students into the hallways. Good move that. Let's see, now you've created a chaotic shooting gallery instead of keeping the students in a fortified room (lock and barricade the door, put the kids against the far wall. Let the gunmen break-in--it's a bottleneck at that point). Oh, and because of the hallway release the cops can't enter--too many moving targets. Good job.

I'm not a total dick. It's a tragedy, for sure. But it's not as big as deal as the media like to make it.

Or maybe I am just a dick and don't really care about my fellow humans after all.