Thursday, August 10, 2006

Thinking Too Much Into a Terror Alert

I can comfortably call myself a liberal. I enjoy the finer things in leftist life, such as analytical thinking, and snobbish Iced Soy Lattes. But one think I cannot stand are the conspiracy theorists on the left who look for anything to blend into an Orwellian I-told-you-so. One of the most rampant culprits of this is Buzzflash.com. I check their website from time to time, noticing the alarmist environment it promotes, even when criticizing others for doing the same thing. The latest in their ever-expanding portfolio of sensationalist claims deals with the newest terror alert. For them, it is one of the many "convenient" terror alerts the Bush administration has issued. After the defeat of Joe Lieberman, the epitome of all that is moderate (moderately to the right, moderately sans balls, moderately boring), the Republican party wanted to let everybody know that going against the war and voting for anti-war candidates is a no-no. If you do, we will all die! Buzzflash claims that Bush saw this as a key opportunity to reassert himself as the only leader this country can afford to bear.
As much as I do believe that some of the alerts are politically motivated, I cannot stomach this last claim. Are we to believe that the administration worries every single moment of how to freak us out more than the last day? Actually, that may an affirmative. But seriously, who honestly cares about Lieberman? I don't. And I am sure Bush doesn't consider that election pivotal. It just reaffirmed the climate for this election year. It is all about butter and bullets. We don't need any websites adding gasoline to an already well-lit fire. Stop scaring the shit out of people, buzzflash...that is the administration's job.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Wanna get it on? Get an iPod

A new study showed that teens with iPods loaded with "sexual" tracks are more likely to have sex at an earlier age than the non-grinding teens. Priority no. 1: Buy Nelly Furtado's "Loose", put it on your iPod, and lend it to the girl next door.