• The phrase "mistakes were made." It's right up there with "it is what it is." Another way to avoid taking responsibility for your own screw ups.


• The cost of running a presidential campaign, even if you're unsuccessful. An NPR story estimated costs around 50-100 million. Let's say you've got two candidates per party, and since the US only has two parties, and let's average that out to $75 million per campaign, well that's 300 million. Wow. Now that would buy a lot of body armor for our troops, insure a lot of children, rebuilt a few buildings in Mississippi and Louisiana...well, the list goes on. I am considering not voting in the next presidential election because of this. I know that one person is only one person, but I could just as easily be voting for one peanut butter brand over another. Marketing--blech.


• speaking of marketing, people who use Jesus to market a business or product or candidate. This morning there was a story about a dude who is selling holy water, water that has been blessed by a clergyman. There's even a disclaimer that it could cause blah blah blah problems in sinners. Hey, you know what? part of being human means we are all susceptible to sin. In fact, WE ARE ALL SINNERS. Like it or not. If you're a Christian all you can do is pray for forgiveness, but you're always going to sin. Also, cashing in on your faith? Bad practice, man.


• Podcasters who ask for money. Damn. i'm freakin broke as hell and all I want is a froggin theme song.


• Still don't know if I passed the skillz test. Only a minor irritation, but still.


• A Jaguar I saw in a parking lot yesterday still had the Carmax decal on it. Honestly, the decals come right off, rich bastard. I'll never be able to afford a Jaguar used or otherwise but at least I know enough to TAKE THAT DAMN CARMAX DECAL OFF. I mean, damn, I took most of mine off my car (left only the Max part. I can't STAND when people leave just the "carma" part--first off, it's goofy as hell and secondly it's not even the correct spelling) and it's only a freakin toyota.

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