"His songs are cool even if he is beatin his wife!"
hyper_girl_0876, 13, says "I don't care what people say he's way cool. His songs are cool even if he is beatin his wife! He is a really good white Rapper and he should be proud. And so should everyone else! Eminem puts up with a lot of crap."

Sigh.

Abortion vs. Faith
In Dubya's third day in office, he limited funding to organizations that offered abortion counseling overseas. "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad," he said. Great. Abortion is a choice made by an individual. You can choose to have one or not have one. I can understand if you don't want your tax dollars to go to an organization that endorses one particular viewpoint on this decision.

Oh, but wait. Dubya recently endorsed using federal dollars to support faith-based charitable organizations. Again, religion is a choice. What if I don't want my tax dollars to go to an organization that endorses one particular viewpoint on this decision?

Hurley to Sign Three Million Pound Bra Deal
That must be one hell of a bra.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the most surreal site of the entire internet...

• It's a comic strip.
• It stars the girl who played Winnie Cooper on the Wonder Years.
• It also stars Dick Morris.
• Words cannot do justice to the strangeness of this comic strip.

A Brief History of Wack-Ass MCs...
I tried to read A Brief History of Time when I was fifteen. It didn't happen. Now I see that Stephen Hawking has branched out into other, more accessible fields. Don't miss the Rhymez and Phat Beatz section.

NPR's 100 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century
A very very cool collection of the little segments on influential songs and recordings that Morning Edition has been playing since January. So much of this stuff is fascinating. (I'm such an NPR junkie.)

Eat your beets, Harold.
A fact-filled website dedicated to my favorite film of all time, Harold and Maude. It's got a nice handful of information, and the most fascinating section is the then-and-now pictures of the film's locations. A must see for any fan of the movie. I'm considering buying a DVD player just so I can see the newly released DVD (and the DVD release of Magnolia, too...)

The best pitas I've ever seen
I don't know why this pita is so funny, but it is. I suspect it is actually written by Bizarro.

Princess Diana Remembered Three Years After Fatal Crash
"Hey, remember Diana?"
Yeah?
"Okay then."

Turaho is back!!
But nothing is there as of yet since I lost all my old articles and photo essays about six months ago. But at least going to www.turaho.com takes you somewhere.

He Said: Five Things That Turn Men On
This article gets major props for mentioning my favorite trait--glasses. Seriously, when a woman wears a nice pair of glasses, it drives me absolutely nutso. Maybe I have repressed librarian fantasies.

10 bad dating tips, Hollywood style
"I learned it at the movies. How to hold a cigarette (Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca") and why to quit (Bogart, real life). How to wear a dinner jacket (Sean Connery, "Dr. No") or a trenchcoat (Robert Mitchum, "Out of the Past"), and how to sling either one over your shoulder without looking like a slob (Frank Sinatra, in anything). But mostly, I learned how to date."

Why am I a Democrat? Because the Republican party is filled with idiots like this...
Here's a quote from a Salon article on Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter:

Sharon Johnson, a Colorado delegate from Denver, said "I admire the Cheneys. I had no idea they had a lesbian daughter. I would hate to have homosexuals come into the schools and teach homosexuality, but if she chooses to be a lesbian, that's her business. If she would go into schools and try to tell my grandchildren or sanction it," that wouldn't be acceptable.

I think someone is getting their news from an unreliable source.

The Worst Laid Plans
"Some foibles needn’t be unpleasant to be unnerving. According to Dr. Cadell, one woman was mortified because she had an orgasm every time she smelled cinnamon. But after careful examination, Dr. Cadell discovered the reason. She lost her virginity in a bakery."

Betting on a Bass That Belts Them Out
Further proof that not only is my mind slowly rotting away--the entire American populace (and British Prime Minister Tony Blair) is tagging along for the ride.

David Sedaris is the funniest man on the planet. Pass it along.
Read Me Talk Pretty One Day last week and laughed out loud numerous times. It is quite fun to sit in a coffeehouse and laugh at a book, because it's something that usually just isn't done. You get the weirdest stares. Laughing at Movies and TV is socially acceptable, but the weirdo who laughs at books must have a few screws loose, eh?

Britney Spears Dresses to Deal with Sweat, Not Sex
...and Britney Spears got her boobs done to prevent blowing away in the wind.

Billy Bragg MP3s
Go now. Download everything. You'll thank me.

Scientists Break Speed Of Light
The only all-reliable, never-fail constant in my life that I could trust was the speed of light. It made a promise to me: Nothing can go faster than me... nothing! And now it's been exceeded in a lab. Now you're going to tell me Santa Claus isn't real. Best quote from this article: "This effect cannot be used to send information back in time." No kidding, or someone from the future would have told us how to do it already.

Student finds the 'Indian' on wrapper
I'm on this Tootsie Roll kick, I guess. Anyway, this article is hilarious, made even better with the picture of the lucky student. On a side note, I have decided to get an Indian-shooting-at-a-star tattoo.

A Licking Machine. You know, for kids.
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know, you say. Au contraire. A bunch of geeks at Purdue built a Licking Machine to scientifically discover the answer. And they were kind enough to divulge the machine's blueprints. So you too can make a Licking Machine at home! Hmmm....

Proof that sitting in front of a computer ten hours a day has rotted my mind
Some guy can spend five minutes putting together a mindless, pointless Flash presentation and I'll still spend three hours playing with it.

Frictionary
sweater of credit(n.) a sweater or other article of clothing left behind by a date to insure that they'll see you again

Andre the Giant has a posse...
...and now he has a website. Must consume, must consume...

Bad music. So wrong, yet so right!
Here's the website for a weekly radio show out of New York that plays celebrities' vanity recordings, curious song selections by youth vocal choirs, and recordings that needlessly depleted the world's vinyl resources. The site includes a bunch of archived show, and they are AWESOME.