Phillip and I having a work related discussion: Tim (4:55:09 PM): have you ever noticed that on the days that you have email from REALLY stupid motherfuckers, you always seem to have fucking 20 emails from REALLY stupid motherfuckers?
Tim (4:55:15 PM): why is it never just one or two
Phillip (4:55:22 PM): hahaha
Tim (4:55:25 PM): it's like days go by with just normal requests
Tim (4:55:38 PM): then you get hit by a tardnado
Phillip (4:55:41 PM): stupidity is contagious
Phillip (4:55:48 PM): haha tardnado
Phillip (4:55:50 PM): that's classic
Tim (4:55:53 PM): thanks, just made it up
Tim (4:56:02 PM): i should probably blog it so i get credit somewhere down the road
posted by timothy on Tuesday, March 23, 2004
 And, finally, my nomination for the next President Of The United States Of America.
posted by timothy on Monday, March 22, 2004
Doesn't seem right to go more than a week without pointing out what an incredible prick we didn't actually elect to be our leader. That being said, read this, and this.
posted by timothy on Monday, March 22, 2004
Howard just emailed me with a story that I want so desperately to be true: So this kid comes in tonight looking all misunderstood with tatoos up and down his arms like he's God's gift to rebellion. He's wearing a T-shirt with a message that reads, "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die". So I shot him. Right in the chest. Before he died I knelt down on one knee and whispered in his ear, "Your shirt's half right."
posted by timothy on Wednesday, March 17, 2004
 Fucking rad.
posted by timothy on Monday, March 15, 2004
This was sent to me as a letter to the fucktard from Bette Midler. I've seen one site that claims she didn't write this, and another that claims she did, neither one of them exactly a trustworthy source. Honestly I don't care if this is real or who wrote it, I'm posting it because it's a beautifully written letter with an important message, or at least a message that I care to spread. And it may have been written by Bette Midler. You'll notice the only thing not in question is that our president is a fucktard: Dear President Bush,
Today you called upon Congress to move quickly to amend the US Constitution, and set in Federal stone a legal definition of marriage. I would like to know why.
In your speech, you stated that this Amendment would serve to protect marriage in America, which I must confess confuses me. Like you, I believe in the importance of marriage and I feel that we as a society take the institution far too lightly. In my circle of family, friends and acquaintances, the vast majority have married and divorced -- some more than once. Still, I believe in marriage. I believe that there is something fundamental about finding another person on this planet with whom you want to build a life and family, and make a positive contribution to society. I believe that we need more positive role models for successful marriage in this country -- something to counteract the images we get bombarded with in popular culture. When we are assaulted with images of celebrities of varying genres, be it actors, sports figures, socialites, or even politicians who shrug marriage on and off like the latest fashion, it is vitally important to the face of our nation, for our children and our future, that we have a balance of commitment and fidelity with which to stave off the negativity. I search for these examples to show my own daughter, so that she can see that marriage is more than a disposable whim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
As a father, I'm sure you have faced these same concerns and difficulties in raising your own daughters. Therefore I can also imagine that you must understand how thrilled I have been over the past few weeks to come home and turn on the news with my family. To finally have concrete examples of true commitment, honest love, and steadfast fidelity was such a relief and a joy. Instead of speaking in the hypothetical, I was finally able to point to these men and women, standing together for hours in the pouring rain, and tell my child that this is what its all about. Forget Britney. Forget Kobe. Forget Strom. Forget about all the people that we know who have taken so frivolously the pure and simple beauty of love and tarnished it so consistently. Look instead at the joy in the beautiful faces of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - 51 years together! I mean, honestly Mr. President - how many couples do you know who are together for 51 years? I'm sure you agree that this love story provides a wonderful opportunity to teach our children about the true meaning and value of marriage. On the steps of San Francisco City Hall, rose petals and champagne, suits and veils, horns honking and elation in the streets; a celebration of love the likes of which this society has never seen.
This morning, however, my joy turned to sadness, my relief transformed into outrage, and my peace became anger. This morning, I watched you stand before this nation and belittle these women, the thousands who stood with them, and the countless millions who wish to follow them.
How could you do that, Mr. President? How could you take something so beautiful -- a clear and defining example of the true nature of commitment -- and declare it to be anything less? What is it that validates your marriage which somehow doesn't apply to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon? By what power, what authority are you so divinely imbued that you can stand before me and this nation and hold their love to a higher standard?
Don't speak to me about homosexuality, Mr. President. Don't tell me that the difference lies in the bedroom. I would never presume to ask you or your wife how it is you choose to physically express your love for one another, and I defy you to stand before Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and ask them to do the same. It is none of my business, as it is none of yours, and it has nothing to do with the "sanctity of marriage." I'm sure you would agree that marriage is far more than sexual expression, and its high time we all started focusing on all the other aspects of a relationship which hold it together over the course of a lifetime. Therefore, with the mechanics of sex set aside, I ask you again -- what makes a marriage? I firmly believe that whatever definition you derive, there are thousands upon thousands of shining examples for you to embrace.
You want to protect marriage. I admire and support that, Mr. President. Together, as a nation, let us find and celebrate examples of what a marriage should be. Together, let us take couples who embody the principles of commitment, fidelity, sacrifice and love, and hold them up before our children as role models for their own futures. Together, let us reinforce the concept that love is about far more than sex, despite what popular culture would like them to believe.
Please, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our society, for the sake of our future, do not take us down this road. Under the guise of protection, do not support divisiveness. Under the guise of unity, do not endorse discrimination. Under the guise of sanctity, do not devalue commitment. Under the guise of democracy, do not encourage this amendment.
Bette Midler
UPDATE - 3/8 - Howard just sent me the following tidbit from about.com: "...the text was written by blogger Stephanie Finnegan, who originally posted it in a LiveJournal entry dated February 24, 2004. The piece made no mention of Bette Midler, nor was it connected with the singer in any way until another person copied and pasted it it onto a Bette Midler discussion board the next day. Though it was not directly attributed to her, some members evidently came to believe Bette Midler herself had written the letter, and it broke into general email circulation under her name in early March.
A March 5 notice on BootlegBetty.com, an unofficial Midler site whose Webmaster says he checked the authenticity of the letter "with people who would know," confirmed that Ms. Midler, who is currently touring, neither wrote the letter nor handed it out at recent concerts, as some people have claimed."
So how bout that shit? For something like the millionth time in his life Howard put it best, this time with, "My own thought is that any President that so casually suggests a constitutional amendment for anything should immediately be ruled to be twelve years old and no longer eligible to hold office."
posted by timothy on Sunday, March 07, 2004
Swiped from Yahoo! News. It's nice to know that Americans aren't the only fucktards throwing away money on studies that try to relieve shitty parents of any blame for societal problems. Read: Video Games Make Kids Fat, Violent, Swedish Experts Say
Mon Mar 1, 4:20 PM ET
By Peter Starck
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Video games can make children fat and, in the case of violent games popular among teenage and younger boys, aggressive and even criminal, Swedish experts said on Monday.
The games industry, estimated at $200 million a year in Sweden and $10 billion in the United States, is dominated on the hardware side by Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox (news - web sites), Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites)'s PlayStation and Nintendo (news - web sites) Co. Ltd's Game Boy and GameCube consoles.
Electronic Arts Inc., Nintendo, Activision Inc., and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. are among leading games title publishers.
Take-Two's Rockstar unit's Grand Theft Auto -- a game condemned as "horrendous" by former U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman -- is among titles mentioned by a Swedish television documentary in connection with violent youth crimes.
"It's concerning because they (video game players) are rehearsing scripts of behavior that will possibly play themselves out in real life," Michael Rich, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics who has studied the effects of entertainment media on the physical and mental health of children, was quoted as saying in the 45-minute "Deadly Game" documentary.
Monday's preview of the film, due for prime time broadcasting on Swedish TV4 television on Wednesday, was followed by a panel debate, which concluded that scientific findings of the effects, if any, of violent video games were scant.
"But it has been proved beyond dispute that people who watch a lot of violence on television develop aggressive behavior," said Frank Lindblad, a child psychiatrist at Sweden's Karolinska Institute university hospital.
DIFFUSE BORDER
"They run a very high risk of criminal behavior ... there's a lot suggesting that video games are worse," he said, noting that many players tended to identify themselves with game heroes.
"The border between the virtual reality and the real world becomes diffuse and that is dangerous," Lindblad said.
Gustav Niel-Berggren, a 16-year-old student who said he tended to spend many hours a day several days a week playing an interactive online action game called Counter-Strike, which focuses on killing opponent soldiers, disagreed.
"Shooting somebody in a game is just like scoring a goal in a football match," he said, dismissing the documentary's suggestion and Lindblad's fear that youths could not distinguish between the game world and real life.
Elisabeth Junttila, a mother of six and head of a nationwide association promoting closer ties between homes and schools, said some children became addicted to video games, spending all their waking hours in front of a computer screen gorging potato chips, pizza and soft drinks.
Anne Folke, co-founder of a lobby seeking to counteract through public awareness campaigns what it sees as the ill effects of video games, said games were consuming ever more of children's time.
"They are in poor physical shape, they eat unhealthily, grow fat and suffer insomnia," she said.
posted by timothy on Tuesday, March 02, 2004
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