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October 18, 2006 10:00 AM

noticed something yesterday as I was walking to school. Or, rather, I didn't notice something. That's right, those fucking cows are finally gone! Happy days are here again. I honestly can't believe that they kept them out that long. That's fucking bullshit. Two days of those ugly things was way too much, in my opinion.

Apparently, a Massachusetts school has banned playing tag. That's one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever heard. Tag is what kids are supposed to play - that's just what you do. The game's got everything - running, screaming, chasing, tagging! And there are so many options. Are there any bases? Are touch-backs allowed? What do you have to precisely say when you tag someone? (By the way - was it supposed to be "eighteen" or "A-team" or something entirely different? I never really figured it out. Do kids in different parts of the country say different things?) And let's not forget about freeze tag. That was a great game.

The argument that tag and dodgeball should be banned because they make kids "feel bad" is bullshit, and anyone that makes that argument should be mocked relentlessly. Seriously, exclusion and pain are part of being a kid. That's how you learn to deal with pain as an adult. You have to learn social skills, and in order to do that, you have to be put in socially challenging situations. One of those situations is tag. Sounds to me like this school district's run by a bunch of pansies who were always "it."

Apparently, the new political tactic is to out gay Senators. Basically, I think this kind of shit is morally reprehensible. i can't believe - actually, I can believe it, but it makes me sad - that people would stoop to this level. Frankly, whether or not someone is gay is completely irrelevant to whether they're a good representative. That's a position I suspect the "outers" agree with. But that doesn't stop them from trying to use someone else's homosexuality in order to hurt that person.

Worse yet, the decision to be "out" is private and personal. It's simply unacceptable to take that decision away from someone - anyone - and then exploit the information to further your own goals.

Finally, I just watched Lost in Space on TV because there was nothing else on and I wanted to revel in free time. Let me tell you, that movie sucks balls. The plot was incomprehensible, the acting was terrible, the special effects were shit . . . it was just a bad movie all around.

I remember that when I was in high school, some of my friends saw this movie and claimed that it was one of their favorites. I thought they were fucking morons. That's right around the same time, I think, that they started listening to shit like Powerman 5000 and Rob Zombie. I should have known then that they were idiots but, oh well.

Anyway, that concludes this completely random post.

2 Comments

Vice said:

While it's nice to see the cows along Library Mall were gone, I'll wait to start rejoicing until I see that the one by Monona Terrace bathing in a bowl of ice cream (or its own shit, to be more visually accurate) or the hideous ones by the Capitol are gone.

October 19, 2006 5:26 PM

The Expat said:

Politics suck, man. I spend most of my free time watching The Daily Show, because at least then its put in a slightly more appropriate context (which is that of the confederacy of dunces politics in the U.S. really is).
In the case of the Dems latest pooptastic display of mudslinging (against a gay man, no less), I'd have to say this just proves my unwillingness to be affiliated with either party as long as they continue to act like a bunch of monkeys.

October 20, 2006 4:24 AM