bush's bush

past first wives have had "issues" -- hillary's was health care, nancy's was DARE, and so on. can someone please tell me what the hell laura bush is doing?

rhenquist lives!

i think we should start sending flowers and life-affirming gifts to rhenquist. he needs to hold on for four more years. please, god, don't let him die.

five strikes you're out

my co-workers were glued to their tv's yesterday screaming and yelling at the ncaa tournament while i was glued to espn news watching the mlb hearings. as the sports trades noted today one thing is clear, "mark mcgwire's legacy is forever tarnished." what a fucking idiot that guy is. he is a jock, it's true. he's not paid to think/speak/dredge up the past, but still. he basically said, "the past is dead to me. let us never speak of it again."

the mlb lawyers though, they're a whole other bag of tricks. they aren't evil in that way of the "new york lawyer," no, they're the midwest lawyer evil. the one who says, "oh, you big new york lawyers, we don't know about such-and-such..." but is stabbing you in the back.

the mlb people were so cavalier. congress was not having it. waxman called them on their shit. it's great. if the players were doing an unfashionable drug like heroin or crack -- something that didn't make baseball more money (like so-called "performance enhancing drugs") mlb would've put the smack down on the drugs a long time ago. the fact is, not only are the players doing banned (not allowed in mlb) substances, they're doing outright ILLEGAL substances and mlb seems to think they're above the law. the players are either playing dumb or are dumb. but congress is over their bullshit. "the past is the past. i don't want to talk about it." to congress!

the problem is that if you're using illegal drugs as part of your business (baseball), you are implicitly telling kids you have to do drugs to be pro. not to mention all those cases of high school boys committing suicide because steroids make you crazy, as we well know. oh and not to mention what happens to your players in 5 years. or later that night when in a roid-rage he beats his wife/kids/boyfriend.

the fact that their whole business is based on bigger, faster, better is the engine driving this. they are killing the players for money, basically. i mean, that's kind of dramatic, but it comes down to the fact that a juiced up player hits them out of the park. if he's small, it's not as interesting. the congress wants them to take a stance similar to the nba, nfl, olympics, etc. but mlb is giving them all kinds of bullshit double-talk.

and this, america's pastime.

the mlb players' association says a player gets 5 chances. break the law 5 times and we'll reprimand you. congress wants them to have one violation and they're benched for two years. a second and they're done. like the olympics.

sonic retribution for nagasaki

saw guitar wolf last night at the knitting factory to a sold out crowd. a band called the ladykillers opened. just because you name your band the ladykillers, does not actually mean you are ladykillers. they weren't bad, if only they played for 10 minutes, but they kept going and going and going and it was so boring. the singer is horrible. they should get a hot girl since they're all frat boy looking anyways. the blond guitar player looked like lupis in the bad news bears. the singer was veering to fat elvis. and the other guy just looked like a ucla frat guy. eew.

guitar wolf was great. i am convinced the drummer is a robot. guitar woof let a girl come on stage and play guitar and she had no idea how but it was great anyway. then he jumped into the audience and made his way to the table next to ours and was almost hanging off the heating duct. little jen got in there and played his guitar. that ruled.

i drank four redbulls and today i'm detoxing from it. not too many pointy shoes, lots of expensive japanese denim, and some sf-looking haircuts, but mostly it was a rock'n'roll crowd. they were really tight and put on a fanfuckingtastic show. way better then the cramps the last time i saw them. goodbye guitar woofera!

dems and don'ts

the outcomes of three stories i have been following the past 6-12 months are finally emerging with some clarity: the democrats and how they can regain some power, the state of network news, and the new ceo at disney. today, the dems:

reading the rolling stone eulogies of hunter s. thompson this weekend, i was struck by what pat buchanan said. he recalled when hst interviewed nixon, noting that election was the first to use cultural warfare. i think the dems would do well to understand that it is no longer soley about issues and accomplishments, but the perception of what the politician is about, whether it's family values or some kind of vague notion of being a good american.

the dem's self-righteousness is what defeated them. in refusing to play hardball (so as to appear above poor sportsmanship), they missed an opportunity to be on the offense. case in point: they let the republicans seize the horrible allegations of the swift boat veterans as well as kerry's inability to articulate soundbites about his position on iraq and use those stupid points, successfully, against him. what the dems should have been doing, as my mother pointed out, was creating an ad campaign similar to lbj's. she recalled a commercial for johnson with a little girl picking a daisy and sweet music playing over which then shockingly cut to an image of a mushroom cloud. the message, of course, was if you don't vote for johnson, your children will die horrible atomic-bomb-related deaths.

why didn't the dems point to the fact that bush was at the helm when 9/11 happened instead of letting him take credit for whatever it is he did after? they should have made him and his cabinet accountable for the fact that he was on vacation or galavanting about promoting anti-abortion legislation rather then focusing on our foreign diplomacy and policy. the dems should hire marianne gregory as their campaign manager. she's got this stuff down.

crimson and grover

From Page Six:
March 9, 2005 -- HARVARD faculty members are still debating whether to give a vote of "no confidence" to embattled university president Lawrence Summers — but at least Matt Damon is in his corner. Damon, who dropped out of Harvard 12 credits short of graduation, tells today's New York Observer, "I've heard whisperings that his remarks were taken out of context. I will say that when you're trying to encourage 18-year-old kids to exercise freedom of thought, it can be dangerous to remove [Summers] for doing just that." The Harvard honcho has been under fire since he opined that women may be less likely to thrive in the field of science due to innate gender differences.


Does Matt Damon know he is a total fucking idiot? First of all, who drops out of college 12 credits short of graduation? Second, he is defending Summer's right to "exercise freedom of thought" in such a way that not only defends Summer's inane comments about women and science, but then frames it so that if, as the president of Harvard, he is held to some kind of standard where this is unacceptable, that the people who vote him off the island are then hypocrits. Matt Damon, you are a total fucking idiot.

Marathon Man

Today is the Los Angeles Marathon. Somehow someone somewhere has managed to convince some city official that a few thousand people jogging is more important than access in and around Los Angeles for millions of people. How does the marathon benefit Los Angeles? It seems like all the merchants, restaurants, and shops anywhere in the 213/323 area code would be effected by today's stupid PE class. Why must we all be subjected to this? The freeways, Pico, La Brea, La Cienega, Crenshaw, 6th St., 3rd St., and on and on -- the whole fucking area must be inconvenienced for the entire day today to accommodate a few thousand sweaty assholes in short shorts? Someone, please, help me understand!!!

posh is an idiot

Victoria Beckham has bought her son Brooklyn an unusual present for his sixth birthday -- a pair of diamond earrings worth a staggering $47,500.

The former Spice Girl purchased the unusual gift because they match his soccer star father, David Beckham's $142,500 pair made for him by New York jeweler Jacob.
A source explains, "Brooklyn adores his father and always wants everything his dad has got.

hi sinden

so. it's up.
now what?