My Sick Mind

Merry Christmas I think Bill O 'Reilly is a Fucking Idiot would have made a great name for the blog, but I think Al Franken has a better grasp of it. And I guess I wouldn't mind so much, if Bill was one of those nut-jobs standing on the street corner screaming about some war crimes or how God is gonna take us up to Heaven ... but he's a nut-job with maj or cable TV time, which really irritates me. Consider this exchange on that stupid TV show of his: O'REILLY: Sixty-two percent of Americans will have a Christmas tree, but most of the trees will be artificial. E.D. HILL (co-host): That surprises me. Only 62 percent have Christmas... O'REILLY: Yeah. And here - and here's a very - here's something that Rasmussen didn't poll but I know, that most women who like artificial trees... HILL: Yeah? O'REILLY: ...have artificial breasts. He went on to say that he saw a study done at UCLA that confirmed his stupid nonsense. I think the University sh...

President George W. Bush hands back a crying baby that was handed to him from the crowd as he arrived for an outdoor dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Trinwillershagen, Germany, July 13, 2006. Five Reasons Why the Kid is Crying: George told the kid that he's gonna go to Iraq in 17 years. It's Mary Cheney's kid. George peed on him. The baby found out that Rumsfeld was Mary's sperm donor. Wouldn't you be crying if George was holding you? Merry Christmas kid.

There is a mini shit storm going on over at Pam’s place. The comments box is all assed-up over the war and what President Dubya is doing. Here’s my two cents. This is from today’s Philadelphia Inquirer : WASHINGTON - The debate over sending more U.S. troops to Iraq intensified yesterday [Wednesday] as President Bush signaled that he will listen but not necessarily defer to balky military officers, and Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, his top Middle East commander and a leading skeptic of a so-called surge, announced his retirement. At an end-of-the-year news conference, Bush said he agreed with generals "that there's got to be a specific mission that can be accomplished" before he decides to dispatch an additional 15,000 to 30,000 troops to the war zone. But he declined to repeat his usual formulation that he will heed his commanders when it comes to troop levels. And… Bush has traditionally paid public deference to the generals. At a news conference in July, for instance,...

So, my quick trip to the grocery store resulted in a bit longer visit than necessary. The "15 items or less" line should also be revised to include "3 children or less". The kids with the grabby hands who take candy and throw it onto the conveyor and the mom who says "That's stealing!" are little reminders that perhaps single-hood suits me. Although, while other people's children are often charming and beautiful, I also have the luxury of leaving and returning home to the cat, whose biggest issue is the occasional fur ball or whatever that brown thing is that he vomits at 3am. It scares the crap out of me when I hear it (whatever it is), and I never fail to step into precisely the spot of the vomit at 3:01am when my aging bladder requires the nightly visit to the household can. I believe his devious little cat-brain has positioned it precisely where he figured. But I digress. It's Christmas, and around the office (my little Hell away from hom...

What motivates you? Fear is a pretty good motivator. Fear of unemployment makes us do a good job. Fear of having no money makes us keep our jobs – no matter how lousy they are - and around it goes. Some folks are self-motivated. They can do things on their own with little help from others. Other people need to be constantly under supervision, sometimes to the point of annoying their supervisors. Personal trainers and people like Martha Stewart make decent livings off people like this. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. We all need something to motivate us. I hope that it is a little more than a little poster with a fancy phrase, or a big book full of fancy phrases – like The Bible. Some people read it every day, while others use it to keep their bathroom door from swinging open. It’s very heavy. One thing that works for me is if I tell someone I’m going to do something. I really want to do it, but the inner lazy-boy would rather not. I tell someone, because I figure that soon eno...

There I am, Sunday night. The venerable 60 Minutes TV show is running an interview with that Larry the Cable Guy . He's one of those examples of the old saying that "no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the general public". Doug Stanhope hates his guts. He can't get through a show without someone yelling "Git 'R' Done!" - even though it isn't Sta nhope's line, and besides, what's the point? Anyway ... I'm watching this interview with Bob Simon, and two things strike me. One is that his stage voice is a put-on. He's from Nebraska , born and reared, and while he speaks with a bit of a drawl, it isn't nearly as affected as the voice he uses on stage. Do you know anyone from Nebraska that talks like that? I suppose we could accept it as an "act", but I've never been one to buy into the act, whether it's that Yakov Smirnoff (who I figure is a total fraud, but his fifteen minutes we...

OK, so I'm sitting around, minding my own B. I. business, and this Pam character tags me. Here are the rules : Find the nearest book. Name the book The author Turn to page 123 Go to the fifth sentence on the page Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog. The book that is closest to me on the bookshelf: The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman This was the John Lennon who could have led the Beatles forward to become the first great hard rock band of the Sixties. They might have rocked with the tough working-class beligerence of The Who, becoming a group whose musical gestures, seconded by corresponding stage gestures, would have created a rock theater that could have enabled John Lennon to enact the psychodrama seething inside his soul. The machine-wrecking tactics of The Who would have suited Lennon right down to the ground, and eventually he might have written his own Tommy (as, in a way, he did with the Primal Scream Album). Much more interesting than Pam'...