Musings, Part J

- I agree with 99% of this article, Washington Diary: crying on cable all except the line near the end about how the rage/crying/over the top nonsense is therapeutic. It’s not therapeutic, it’s embarrassing and pathetic. And it doesn’t exorcise our demons but adds more. It’s the kind of behavior we’re scolded for by our parents when we’re children and our parents won’t buy us candy while at a grocery store. It’s a temper tantrum that they should have grown out of. He’s right about turning to the Daily Show. As sad as it might be for some, it’s the only news I watch on TV. I get that the cable news (24 hour, nonstop plagues upon our planet that ought to at least be banned from airports) has to be complaining about something, whether it was liberals, or anyone who didn’t worship at the altar of whatever they were pushing that day, not backing our immediate past president or now just complaining about the president (and gee, who’s the anti-American now?) but do they have to do so in such a…petulant teenage girl who says like every other word, is fanatical about MySpace and can only hold a lengthy conversation over who is dating who (either in the popular circles at school or in the teen celebrity circles) or how scared they are they gained a fraction of a pound, fashion? Get over yourselves, give your audience a chance to use their brain cells, maybe nurture some at the same rate you’re killing them.
- Ever wonder what you can do with Peeps besides feeling your teeth cringe when you see a wall of them at your local store around holidays and blowing them up in the microwave? Well, you can be creative with them in the Washington Post Peep Diorama Contest. It’s in its third year and wow are some of them creative this year. For pictures see: Peep Show, Peeps Show II, and Peeps Show III. I particularly like the Metro ones…they really captured the trains quite well. Who knew Nighthawks could work so well with Peeps?
- Space is awesome. Seriously. If I were more into science and didn’t wear glasses I would totally have tried to be an astronaut. I was considering it for a while but soon decided my brain wasn’t a science brain but a social science brain that just really thought space was awesome. Still, I can envy people like this, Last Voyage for the Keeper of the Hubble and applaud them at the same time. You rock NASA.