Condoleezza came to my work today as part of her tour of Silicon Valley with some British dude named Dave. Dave was charming and said many of the right things. Condie did much less of both of those things. Overall, I was underwhelmed. Apparently, Condoleezza was a professor at Stanford - I was unaware of this - Stanford -1. The Bush administration appears to be pushing very hard to clean up their legacy. There has been increased talk of renewable resources and education and from an administration which - from what I can gather - did its damnedest to strip funding for anything not relating to an aggressive foreign policy from federal budgets, frankly, stinks like bullshit. Condoleezza pushed the fact that the history books, and not headlines, will be the ultimate judge of the accomplishments of the administration. This is very possible because most history books I read in my youth were full of shit.
End of political rant.
Headed to Indiana Jones tonight. Kia is going to meet me downtown and we are going to watch Harrison Ford hobble around some ruins while being accompanied by the plucky lad from Transformers. rottentomatoes.com is giving the movie a pretty
good rating at this point. Damn, Iron Man got a 93%. I think I need to see that mess. Speaking of Iron Man, these hats are sick, I don't even care.
OK, getting closer to the city. Long weekend coming up and not a lot of plans at this point. There is going to be a fair amount of trip prep for the upcoming trip home to AK. Dougherty made a comment about wanting to come up to "God's Country" and retrace the steps of the Grizzly Man - or something to that effect.
Get your bars up.
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Chrissy told me to comment here as:
Could you write blogs with English? I do not even know 2/7 words in this post's title!
Chao ni mada! How you know that one?
The disappointing thing about Matthew working for Google is that he makes you use Google. At this point, I am now familiar enough with the protocols to know that eventually all posts reference rap music. And so, while I did not previously know that the Wu-Tang Clan was into Santa, after sufficient research into the matter, I do now. Imagine what James Joyce could have done had the internet been available to him! Unfortunately, I think he could have done a better job than: "What's your wish? Wanna Kringle like Kris?" Popular culture however does reward its participants more handsomely than classic art endeavors, and using the measuring stick of our times, it appears that "Fitted hats low conceal the crooked eye" will be more meaningful in the end than "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead...." It is yet one more sign of the collapse of Western Civilization as we know it.
Collapse redux: I neglected to contribute to the rant about the Bush legacy. Condi's template is Truman. Or she hopes it is. GWB will be no HST. People hated Harry, or at least some people did, but he didn't smirk at anyone. He didn't pull a bait and switch on rationales for completely ridiculous incursions, and he was willing to suck up and ask people to pay for what the country was spending in terms of lives and materiel. The more likely historical precedents that match GWB are going to be Herbert Hoover and Warren G. Harding. No one has really forgiven either one of them for their involvement in pernicious behavior. Harding was a popular president, but with a cabinet actively involved in corruption, it's tough to make a decent place in history. Hoover just plain wasn't popular, and in an ugly foreshadowing of the current administration, believed in little or no active government involvement in the economic problems that led to the Great Depression. He screwed things up at the front end, and by the time he took any action, it was too little, too late. This resulted in a true nightmare for the country. GWB won't have that legacy, but only because the country's wealth is able to sustain the wasted assets of the Iraq War without horrific immediate impacts. We have fobbed those off on our children's children. I'm sure Condi, when she reads this, will have a biting historically correct response. It won't matter. I'm betting that Google and Wikipedia will have bad ratings for any Bush websites in the future.
Okay... Jacky/YT's right. no lie, no lie........
While I dunt think Matthew makes people use Google.it's more like he makes people use urbandictionay.com for "some reason"... So for this point, good job,man! dededade!
I agree with Chrissy...
Hmmm...urban-dictionary
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