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US Map Showing The TV Series Best Representing Each State
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Fox Misinformation Machine
via youtube.comOK, last political post for a while. I just ran across this video of Rachel Maddow explaining how the Fox Misinformation Machine works. It’s pretty much what my last post was about, but by someone who can explain it much better than I. It’s not really anything new, but it does seem to be getting worse.
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Politics Schmolitics
I’m not really a political junky, but you have to pay attention to be educated enough to vote intelligently. That seems to be getting harder and harder with all the misinformation news networks and politicians spread nowadays.
I don’t consider myself a member of any particular party. I do my research and vote basted on the person, not whether they have a (R) or (D) next to their name. Lately though, the GOP has been so wacky, I can’t honestly vote for any of them.
My main gripes about the GOP is how anti-science they are. Anybody that denies global warming, or evolution, and wants to dumb down our children by teaching creationism in science class, is not fit to run our country.
They GOP is so hell bent on cutting taxes for the rich, and cutting spending. Isn’t a tax cut mathematically the same thing as increasing spending? So they really want to increase spending and cut spending? What?
What inspired this blog post was this video of Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann. How she got re-elected I have no idea? I thought Minnesotans were smarter than that.
In the video she goes on and on about some made up numbers pulled out of someone’s ass about the cost of Obama’s India trip. It doesn’t matter how wrong them numbers are, she says them over and over, and other news networks will pick it up and pretty soon misinformation is as good as true. It’s one thing for political pundits to pull numbers out of their asses, but a politician? They should know better. It’s this kind of misinformation spreading that drives me nuts.
Then Anderson Cooper tries to get her to tell us where they are going to cut spending. That was one her key re-election topics, and she had no idea where to make the cuts. I guess it was just something that sounded good to get re-elected.
In a perfect world both sides would deal with only the facts and work together for the benefit of the American people. Sadly it’s not a perfect world, so the American people are left confused to what the facts really are, and have to wade through all the misinformation, to decide who to vote for.
Oh well, at least the Sun will come up tomorrow.
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Motion City Soundtrack – “A Lifeless Ordinary”
via spin.comI forgot to mention that at the Motion City Soundtrack concert Thursday night, they gave us a sneak preview of their video for “A Lifeless Ordinary” while they were setting up. It was pretty sweet watching the video as the whole crowd sang along. Well, today they released the video.
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8th time seeing Motion City Soundtrack
We had a great weekend in Minneapolis. First Avenue is my most favorite place to see a concert. We got there early because the Wife hates crowds. She gets claustrophobic. We have to either be right up front, or way in the back, so of course I like to get right up front. It was another great concert.
First Avenue is famous for the stars on the outside walls with some of the greatest bands that have played there on them. This year they did a makeover on them, and they look better than ever. I should have taken some pictures of the new paint jobs, but I didn’t think of it. The line we were waiting in was on the opposite side of Motion City Soundtracks star, so I didn’t see their star. They did move Prince’s, Soul Asylum’s and a few other Minneapolis band’s stars to easier to photograph places. Our line was next to Motion City Soundtracks bus. We saw Joshua Cain from Motion City heading into First Ave, and we saw Jesse Johnson go on and off the bus a few times. Valencia had someone out side taking pictures for their website. I may or may not be on their flickr site.
The Concert started with Valencia, who I have heard of, but never heard. They were great, and I ran into one of them after the show and bought a CD from him. I love supporting great bands by buy their CDs right from them.
Saves the Day was band number two. I love them, and have most of their albums, but I am never impressed by them in concert. This was my third time seeing them, and they always sound better on their albums.
Say Anything was the third band. They were great, but I wish I knew more of their older stuff. It was also great to see Kenny Vasoli playing bass for them. I have seen Kenny’s old band, The Starting Line many times.
Motion City Soundtrack was amazing as always. The only problem is that they have enough albums out now, that they don’t play many of our favorites off their first album, but that happens with every band. They still rocked the place, and it was awesome to finally see them in mine, and probably their favorite venue.
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Seeing Motion City Soundtrack again
via youtube.comTomorrow we are heading down to Minneapolis to see Motion City Soundtrack again. It will be our eighth time seeing them I think, it’s hard to keep count. It’s also hard to believe of all the times we have seen them, we have yet to see them at 1st Ave. 1st Ave is one of my favorite places to see concerts. There is just so much history there. Any band that is anybody has played there, plus Purple Rain was filmed there.
Getting ready for the concert I watched a few videos. The above video is the first Motion City Soundtrack song I fell in love with. It’s kind of crazy how young they look in the video. 2003 wasn’t really that long ago was it?
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What A Glorious Space To Dwell
via mentalfloss.comI love songs like this. Who knows how valid many of the facts are, but I bet they are mostly true. I think I vaguely remember Duck Hunt being a two player game, but totally forgot until now.
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Fargo fire made news on the Consumerist
via consumerist.comSo this fire was just a few a few blocks from my house a week ago. Our crappy cable company made the news on the Consumerist for charging people for their burnt up cable boxes. I don’t know why the Consumerist thought the fire was in South Fargo, MN. It was actually in south Fargo, ND, but whatever, it was a crazy big fire, and everybody pretty much hates our cable company.
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To shave or not to shave?
So there is this company in town that tests generic versus brand name drugs. I am sure everybody from Fargo knows what I am talking about. Basically they pay people to be guinea pigs. The studies are about as safe as can be. It’s not like they are testing untested drugs. They just compare brand names versus the generic to make sure they are similar so the generic can get onto the market. Most of the time you are given a low enough dosage that you don’t feel any affects, at least I have never felt any. I usually do a few a year when some easy ones come up. It’s not like we need the money. We are doing pretty well, but it’s hard to pass up an easy $1000.
The one I am doing now is a patch study. I just have to wear patches on my hips, and go in on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays for a check and replacement, for four weeks.
So for the last three weeks I have been going in three times a week to let people peak at my underwear and hips. Yesterday I was getting a little reaction, so they had to move my patches. They moved them in an inch or so, but now they are only and inch or so away from my pubes. I am not a shaver. I don’t know if many guys are, but I’m not. I am all natural down there. Now I am wondering if I should trim them back a little. It’s going to be a little tricky to expose the patches without exposing some pubes.
I guess I will have to make the call when I am in the shower tomorrow. I don’t think my decision will be blog-worthy though.
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One badass fucking fractal
I’m sure everyone by now has heard that Benoît Mandelbrot died over the weekend. He basically invented/discovered fractal geometry. Math was always one of my favorite subjects in school, but I had to work hard at it. It didn’t really come natural to me. I am always amazed by smart people, who think different. Of course the only reason I even know of Benoît Mandelbrot is from the great Jonathan Coulton song.
I am also a big fan of smart songs.
