Random Ramblings

Monday morning (3AM), I arrived home to find that my loving daughter had decorated the shelf on the hallway bookcase, where I put my wallet, keys and such when I get home, with various birthday greetings. It was a nice finish to a long day. Then, upon my waking (1PM), they took me downtown to wander through Circle Center Mall and the fabulously expansive Borders Book Store. Then they took me out for a birthday dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory and bought me some new (and unfortunately larger) pants that I needed for the new job. I bought myself the Spamalot Original Broadway Cast Recording as a birthday gift for my listening pleasure.

Things that crossed my mind today...

Paris Hilton engaged to Paris Latsis: This way, no feelings get hurt when they inadvertently scream out their own name during sex.

New Kool-Aid Commercials: Why in gods' name did they put clothes on Kool-Aid Man?! Did his nudity incite lascivious thoughts? I swear, he's not really sweaty; that's condensation.

Mob burns KFC restaurant after suicide blast at mosque: This headline made me laugh inappropriately. Am I missing something? Did the bomber resemble Colonel Sanders?

Cheney offended by Amnesty criticism: Amnesty International has accused the U.S. of serious human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay. In response to the allegations, Cheney told Larry - Pardon My Lips On Your Ass - King this...

"I think the fact of the matter is, the United States has done more to advance the cause of freedom, has liberated more people from tyranny over the course of the 20th century and up to the present day than any other nation in the history of the world," he said.

"Just in this administration, we've liberated 50 million people from the Taliban in Afghanistan and from Saddam Hussein in Iraq, two terribly repressive regimes that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of their own people."


Dick seems to think that, given all the freedom and liberation we're spreading like STD's at the prom, we should get a pass on the minor details of possible human rights violations. How dare the world judge our methods? What we achieve outweighs how we achieve it.

Now that I've emptied my head of these random thoughts, I am going to bed.

So far, 43 doesn't seem so bad. Same shit, different year.