I Saved Latin

Schwarzenegger - A Good Governor???

This is really great news.  The Governator worked with California Dems to pass a progressive bill that will require reductions in greenhouse gasses.  What's next - the Kyoto Treaty?!?

Link: California lawmakers approve landmark climate bill - Yahoo! News.

Why I Don't Read The News

"You want the truth! You can't handle the truth! No truth handler you! Bah! I deride your truth handling abilities!" - Sideshow Bob

You know what?  I stopped reading and watching the news a few years ago.  I think the thing that pushed me over the edge was the re-election of GWB.  I simply can't stand US coverage of international events.

I was in Charlotte last week and sat around with some like-minded individuals, one from the UK and others from various blue states around the country.  We all started discussing how uninformed Americans are, and how our media contributes greatly to this ignorance.  I can't stand watching the Conservative Media anymore and long for the days of real insight and analysis without White House spin.

Today, I decided to go read the Guardian, a news site out of the UK.  I found a wonderful article that isn't afraid to call out Israel on their actions against Lebanon.  I actually found myself engrossed in the article - a testament to the quality of writing as well as the content.  I might have to start reading the news again.

How To Spot A Pedophile

There is big news in my new hometown.  Is it the cease fire in the Middle East?  No, it's much bigger than that!  They arrested JonBenet Ramsey's admitted murderer yesterday.  Now, I'm no detective, but have a look at this guy.

Yep, he's a pedophile alright.  A murdering one, at that.  Book him, Dan-o!

Stoners vs. 6-Year-Olds

This magazine supposedly performed some tests on 6-year-olds and stoners.  Apparently the stoners were out-performed by the kids in each test.  I'm going to visit Andy and we'll get to the bottom of this.  Amsterdam style.

Best News Story. Ever.

Panthers cheerleaders thrown off squad following arrest. Enough said.

Update: another version, this time with video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9956517

Sean Hannity Is a Democracy-Subverting Douchebag

While no surprise to most, Kids Against Combs, a Brooklyn-based indie band, have stated the obvious in a recent song title. For more information on the evolution of this song title, and some more humor about how Sean had to change his home phone number, read this article from Fox Unplugged (whatever the hell that means).

This article will clearly generate a lot of buzz around one of the more pressing issues of our day: Is douchebag one word or two? I say one, and like to say it like they did in my favorite SNL skit ever ("Lord & Lady DoUUUUUUChe-baaaaahhhhg").

Contradiction Du Jour

Yoga: what are the effects?  Well, lifpositive.com talks about the philosophy of yoga as such:

"The objective of [yoga] is to uproot misconceptions about the existence of external 'realities' from the minds of men. It believes that it is possible to reach this stage of self realization through regular practice of certain yogic meditative processes that bring a complete withdrawal or detachment from all false sources of knowledge and inculcates an inner sense of balanced calm and tranquility.

Turns out this is not the case in more violent individuals.  Yoga seems to be causing aggressiveness among inmates in Norway.  They are guessing that the practice is removing the inmates' psychological barriers.  Apparently, they have barriers in place to keep them from being even worse than they really are.  Maybe some other form of exercise (Real Media Player required) is more suitable?

This Weather Sucks

It was 78 degrees outside on Monday.  Hell, yesterday it hit 80.  It was miserable.  Well, it was only miserable because I was having fever and chills inside my apartment with my blinds shut tight to the evil sunshine.  I wanted to suffer in the dark.

The good news is I finally started feeling almost human yesterday afternoon.  I'm at work today, and every time I go out into the 80 degree weather I forget that it's actually January.

Fuck CNN - I Have Robin

I realized today that my most reliable source of news is Robin's blog.  If she didn't talk about it online, I would have no idea that there was a huge earthquake that killed 20,000 in Indonesia.   I also learned today that Chrisopher Reeve died - on the cover of a tabloid in line at Target.  Should I take personal inventory and set a hard news site as my browser home page, instead of Mobile Content News?

Hell no.  I have Robin.

Robin, can you send me breaking news alerts from now on?  That'd be swell.

Melissa Bohman Wants to Be Googled

So, I was talking to my friend Melissa Bohman this afternoon. She just moved from Seattle to L.A. and has a sweet gig working from home. The problem with working from home (for Melissa Bohman) is that she is in a new town and is having trouble meeting people. I understand, I just moved to San Diego.

Anyway, I digress. Melissa Bohman and I (Drew Jennings) were talking about a previous blog post, where I recounted an IM conversation we had about whether or not I looked like David Wells, the Padres pitcher. I told her that I removed her last name (Bohman) from the post to, in my words "protect the innocent."

"You should have left it in." She said. "I was trying to Google myself, but I wasn't coming up. If you put my whole name in there, maybe the search engine would pick it up."

Well, Melissa Bohman may be on to something there. Something that Drew Jennings (me) had not thought of previously. I'll title it "Melissa Bohman's theory on how to make Melissa Bohman more Googleable" if that's a word.

Ok, Melissa Bohman. Try it now. See if you get any Melissa Bohman hits. And to make that Google image search work better, I'll post a picture of you and title it "Melissa Bohman."

Melissa Bohman is there on the left. That's Stephanie Tran on the right, in case she wants to get in on this whole Google bonanza as well.