:: Guh? ::

:: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 ::

Live Long and Prosper
Matt Jefferies, designer of the original Enterprise and the man for whom "Jefferies Tubes" were named, died today at the age of 82.

"He's not really dead. As long as we remember him."
Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
:: David 8:50 AM [+] ::
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Someone else gets it!
I never knew this was out there, but I'm sure glad I just discovered it for myself.

Someday, when I can calm myself down long enough, I'll spend considerable time ranting and raving (I wonder if I should even bother calming down) about the enormous joke that is the Shepherd Express.
:: David 9:49 AM [+] ::
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Valuable Lessons for Women
1. Don't make fun of your boyfriend for not having any muscles.
2. Don't challenge him to an arm wrestling match.
3. If you happen to win, be a graceful victor.

Valuable Lesson for Men
If your girlfriend happens to beat you at arm wrestling, don't up the ante into a full-blown beating.

Valuable Lesson for Everyone
Drinking early on a Tuesday = Bad.
:: David 9:22 AM [+] ::
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TOTW
I always wanted to give out some sort of award on this blog. Granted, I won't be giving anything to the winner, but I have finally found a way of honoring those I feel deserve it.

The title is called "Tool of the Week." What's a tool? Well, I'm not talking about hammers. The best example I can give of a tool is that guy who walks around talking on his cell phone at top volume discussing his latest golf score while shopping for orange juice. Chances are he's on a hands-free and wearing dress pants on a Saturday morning. That's a tool.

And this weeks Tool of the Week: Ted Rall.

You figure out why...
:: David 12:38 PM [+] ::
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Ethnic Pride
If it weren't for the fact that I was part German, I'd be 100% satisfied with this.
:: David 12:25 PM [+] ::
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Justice
Beat your wife = 1 year.
Spit on a cop = Life.
:: David 12:11 PM [+] ::
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I'm in love
While I'm not so keen on the Journal-Sentinel's decision to publish so many details about Sally Evanson's housing history, I have to share the story of this "scofflaw" who has stood up to one of Milwaukee's most ridiculous problems: Parking tickets.

I hate how parking is regulated in this city, but since I'm not a resident of the city proper I really have no say in the matter. But to find out who public parking enemy number one is is awesome. Now if I could only meet her, I'd marry her!

:: David 8:56 AM [+] ::
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Suspicions Confirmed
I was prompted to blog on Eugene Kane the other day (for some reason Blogger won't let me permalink to the post, so just scroll down to read it) based on this article. The problem was that I had originally read the article in the paper and not online, and something seemed to stand out. Reading an editorial in today's Journal-Sentinel, my suspicions were confirmed:

EUGENE KANE
Columnist's perspective skewed by color
As always, Eugene Kane was way off base in his April 22 column about POWs ("Opposing war, yet playing a lead role"). He felt Pfc. Jessica Lynch received more attention than Spc. Shoshana Johnson because Lynch is white. This was nonsense.

The rescue of Lynch was such a dramatic event, and there was more to it than the rescue of the seven POWs on the road near Baghdad. Had Johnson been in Lynch's position, she would have received the same publicity.

Kane sees everything in black and white terms - literally. He is so prejudiced that it adversely affects his writing and his reasoning. He was dead wrong this time.

Larry Giantomas
Milwaukee

Now if you follow my link to the story, you see it's titled Prominent Blacks Abound in Wartime. But when I first read it, and as confirmed by Mr. Giantomas above, the article was titled in print Opposing War, Yet Playing a Lead Role. It struck me because it seemed to insinuate that General Brooks opposed the war because he was black but still played a lead role in it. While Kane dances around that very point -- he makes the jump of logic that Brooks, because he's black, must oppose the war, but in not so many words -- the new "Prominent Blacks..." title is far more fitting.

Why is it that the headline was changed? Who came up with the original headline? Who came up with the new one?

Something's not right here.


:: David 8:12 AM [+] ::
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Look who the cat dragged in!
From ABC news I just learned that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has turned himself in!
:: David 1:56 PM [+] ::
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Too much cheerleading for my taste
Although I'm one of those people who has long felt that media has been traditionally too liberal to be objective, I find it just as distasteful to try and correct/counter such behavior by going too far to the other side.

I can't quote it verbatim, mostly because I didn't have anywhere to write it down as well as being pretty drunk when I heard it, but last night Sean Hannity was interviewing formerly embedded reporters when he asked them a question that went something like: So has your respect for the soldiers gone up or was it already high?

Bad.
:: David 8:45 AM [+] ::
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack
Though not for any real good reason. It's just been a while since I last blogged (which, by the way, I think 2 years ago would have been a great euphamism for something I might do in the privacy of my own bathroom..."GET OUT OF THE BATHROOM!", "Leave me alone, ma, I'm jost blogging!") and I thought it might be time to drop my wisdom bomb on the e-world.

Shopping
I needed to buy lightbulbs the other night. I also needed fluid for my Zippo and, since I wasn't carrying my Zippo at the time but had dirts to smoke, I needed a Bic lighter to hold me over. As I approached the counter at my friendly neighborhood Osco it suddenly occured to me that buying the fluid and bulbs at the same time might look a tad suspicious (from what I've learned from movies I could apparently create a small explosion with the two). Furthermore, one might question why I would need lighter fluid AND a lighter that requires no fluid. Lastly, I used my credit card to make the purchase. I think I'm on somebody's list now...just not sure who's.

"Journalists"
There are two writers in Milwaukee I simply can't stand, yet I end up reading their articles whenever possible. The first is Eugene Kane, a writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who plays the race card better than Michael Jordan plays basketball. In one article, he actually challenged white readers to prove that they have black friends, feeling it was simply implausible in such a racially segregated city. The second is Dave Berkman, a media columnist for the Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's alternative newsweekly. Berkman is a self-loathing Jew with inconsistent viewpoints who gobbles up unsubstantiated generalities and spews them out as fact all while criticizing any media outlet he dislikes (and he dislikes pretty much everything) for doing the same thing. While Mr. Berkman may never aknowledge my existence, I've had the pleasure of knowing him personally as I once worked for the Shepherd earlier in my career. Since I left the Shepherd, I've found it to become less and less an alternative to Milwaukee's daily newspaper and more and more a pulpit for radical left-wingers, and I have a strong feeling that Berkman is the epicenter of this change. I was once proud to work there, despite it being one of the most poorly run operations I've ever encountered, but now I rip every issue I read in half because the paper is far more valuable is lining for my birdcage than it is as any source of journalism.

Oh yeah, by the way, Berkman is a retired communications professor.

And they're both so-called journalists.
:: David 10:38 AM [+] ::
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