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No longer must we fear burning in the eternal fiery pits of Hell. Today is a day of remembering what Christ taught us; you too can rise from the dead to walk the earth again and do stuff. The only bad part is that people only come back from the dead to do one thing… and that’s to eat brains.

Unfortunately, people who take ancient mythology too seriously aren’t going to be much of a snack for Zombie Christ.

Amanda came back to town this weekend to hang out and make preparations for a permanent move back to Alaska. Well, that’s what she told everyone, but she actually just came up to hang out with me and watch UFC 59 at my place, that other crap was just to occupy the rest of her time here. A great time was had by all and as a direct result I’m now completely out of beer. Can’t remember when the last time was that I actually ran out. We finished up the weekend at The Peanut Farm for more beer and food, then saw Amanda off to the airport. Hopefully she’ll be back for good within the next few months.

Pictures are up.

I’ve always been uncertain as to whether hate is a purely evil emotion or if it’s neutral. Perhaps it can even be somewhat good when directed in the right directions. Can’t it be said that if you despise something in the right way it can be constructive by helping you avoid becoming that yourself rather. Too often people who consider themselves to be open-minded tend to embrace every extreme in the book, no matter how inhumane. They might have embraced the laisses-faire ‘evil doesn’t exist’ ideology to excuse themselves. Which is basically zen-fascism.

I tend to try to focus my hatred toward actions as opposed to the people who commit them. Though that’s tough most times given the number of complete fuckholes in the world. Some people can be redeemed, but 9 times out of 10 the person is just a self-centered, self-serving prick.

“It’s OK. Allow yourself a little hate. You can turn the other cheek just don’t turn the other way” -NOFX ‘American Errorist’

As an American I recognize it’s my right, nay, my civic duty to wage war. So like a true, red-blooded American I’ve formally declared war on my liver. This weekend I’ve bombed it with something like 500 shots of whiskey. A full and unconditional surrender is surely imminent.

Thanks to the bullshit stunt the powers that be at work pulled last week I’ve been running my ass off to get freight worked and out to meet appointment times. Today my hard work earned me a pulled muscle in my lower back. Thankfully not a slipped disc or I’d be completely boned, but it’s plenty painful enough to make the rest of the workday, well, interesting. I’m gonna be laid up all weekend I fuckin’ know it…

Ya know, it’s not until you really wrench your lower back that you realize just how many muscles down there are involved in pooping.

Any support for, agreement with or sympathy for those who commit torturous acts gives societies a green light on barbarous behavior. This, in turn, would surely lead to more brutal behavior by police and other law enforcement officials. It will force the innocent to lie to avoid abuse and guarantee punishment whether a suspect is guilty or not. It’s globally rejected and morally deplorable, period.

In all honesty I’m not surprised AmeriKKKa is the modern world’s last bastion for torture. We justify it by glancing over details. We say, “well whatever was done, [enter potential tragedy here] was avoided”. We say the “slippery slope” argument is a bunch of crap when there’s really no other situation in which it’s more applicable and accurate. We regularly sanction the death penalty and then tell ourselves that if something like government sanctioned killing can be OK then we’re really just weighing the risk of said potential tragedy against the temporary discomfort of an alleged criminal and that’s not really so bad… is it?

Yes. Yes it is…

C|NET said last week that Apple over-hyped the launch of two rather mediocre products in the grand scheme of things. Wow! Newsflash! I said the same thing the day before this article ran. Nice to see I’m not the only one who can see through the hype.

To be completely fair Apple didn’t send this one out press-release style as they usually do, but if it wasn’t intended to be a normal high-profile affair it shouldn’t have been held in the Apple Town Hall in Cupertino, California, where the iPod was first unleashed. They also shouldn’t have had Steve Jobs’ doing the unveiling of what amounted to faster, shinier bits of the same ol’ Apple fare and a ghetto-blaster for your iPod.

Today Apple released 5 new products including a new iPod and accessories. No doubt there’s going to be tens of thousands of people foaming at the mouth to get the latest crumbs that fall from Steve Jobs’ mouth. Endless lines of people buying into the hype and it’s just that, hype. People are obviously buying these things based solely on style because they’re sure as hell not basing their monetary expenditure on function. There has yet to be a single product in the iPod family that stands out from anything else. For most everyone’s use there’s a better product on the market that cost far less. Obviously it gets the job done, but people need to stop talking about it as if it’s something special, as if it’s some kind of revolutionary device.

You might think that an iPod is cool. But, seriously, if you need a music player to define your personality, something went terribly wrong.