Gonzo dreams on...

Yes, our good Dr. Gonzo was able to get his hands on Madden 09 late last night (or early this morning, whichever you feel is more appropriate) and is just not getting the much needed sleep he sacrificed in order to be one of the first to play...

I gotta say I'm jealous, but moreso I'm jealous that he can be sleeping now instead of banging away at a keyboard and explaining why cell cards for laptops tend not to work in areas where cell service is unavailable (great morning so far), but I digress.

On to the news of the day...

Look out Canadia, we's goin to check out which rocks be ours!!!

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter will embark on an Arctic voyage this week to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and map the ocean floor, data that could be used for oil and natural gas exploration.

Could be the makings of an extremely boring trip, or the Faulkland Islands part deux perhaps?

Speaking of war and "stuff", has anyone noticed that little tiff between Russia an Georgia over what is essentially Ossetia? I've personally found it a bit interesting, considering we're talking about the two old superpowers involved here (ie, Mother Russia and ), but also the parallels with this situation and that of the Kurds.

I mean we're not talking about an ethnic zone that is trying to form its own nation, but Northern Ossetia is essentially an autonomous zone that Russia allows to exist, so is this a superpower's way of helping out the little guy for a change by uniting Northern and Southern Ossetia (even though its kinda owned by Georgia, which is kind of a sovreign nation)?

And why haven't we done this for the Kurds, or at the very least stopped the Turks from crossing over into Iraq and punishing the people that are trying to do essentially the same thing in forming Kurdistan?

Not a sermon, just a thought...

Quick note about the Olympics though here... When did we become the whitest country on Earth?

Can we really only be competitive in events like Fencing and Swimming (with "Human-Dolphin" Phelps), that just smack of Uber whiteness?

Honestly, I feel like we've surpassed Canadia and their amazing Curling skills with this so far, but I hope to be proven wrong soon, as I certainly do not fit into the "Stuff White People Like" target audience...

That is all for now...

Why Can't I Offend People?

I'm kind of surprised at some point throughout my writings that I hadn't offended at least one person enough to complain to someone and thus getting some PR in the process.

I mean, any attention is good right? Especially for a website...

Well, that's the situation that Stuff White People Like is currently in. God bless them, they have an enormously funny site with great commentary going on over there and quite honestly have the suburbanite population of DC totally pegged (at least Bethesda, Potomac and Kensington).

To date, there have been 14 million hits, reflecting the nation's current obsession with race and gender, too. For confirmation, check out the comments and speeches by presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton just this past week.

Dean Rader, a pop culture critic who authors weeklyrader.blogspot.com, says readers flock to Stuff White People Like because it's hip and hot and the place to be seen and heard online. "It's just as much about class and coolness and yuppiness and consumption (as race)."

I just have to say that I'm incredibly jealous that I haven't been able to offend anyone sufficiently enough yet to warrant the kind of attention they're getting now. Race humor is apparently very much in vogue right now given the attention (as said above) its been getting in the election, so perhaps the LSWTF crew should be getting into this growing industry?

Lord knows I got plenty of material given my time served in the Bethesda "society" :)

Dews Tuesday Rundown...

Ok, just came across this from a LSWTF.com fan and had to share:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com

I can't tell you how much this screams Bethesda/Potomac/Kensington Maryland to me, but to those of you that have not been to our richest, most elite suburb of Washington DC, I can imagine you at least have an idea of the type of money and influence the area has...

Can't tell you how many cocktail/bbq parties I have attended there where someone gave me a drink order... But thats a whole 'nother story.

I'd like to add to the list something like "Fascination with small supposedly liberal states" too. We have tons of these damn suburbanites coming up north to go to UVM and smoke themselves stupid all the time.

I think Dewey said it best to me via chat "Judging by this blog, I'm not very white". Neither am I Dewey, neither am I!

Anyway... On to the other news of the day...
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Things are getting ugly for the election, as well as the party's loyal followers:

According to cops, Ortiz, 28, stabbed Sean Shurelds last Thursday night in the kitchen of an Upper Providence Township home. According to a criminal complaint, a copy of which you'll find here, the 41-year-old Shurelds, an Obama supporter, told Ortiz that the Illinois senator was "trashing" Clinton (apparently in regard to recent primary and caucus results). Ortiz, a Clinton supporter, replied that "Obama was not a realist." While not exactly fighting words, the verbal political tiff led to some mutual choking and punching. And, allegedly, a stabbing in the abdomen.

Hey, at least they're getting into this election... Haven't seen this kind of "Election Fever" in a while!
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Huckabee is quoted as saying the McCain story is "best thing that could happen" for McCain as a candidate.

He's no fool though, the Huckster is totally right on this. By finally running this story, the New York Times has given people like Rush Limbaugh an easy out on their stance against McCain for being "too liberal", since its a paper like the New York Times running it (aka Liberal War Machine to the Right Wing).

Not like it wasn't going to happen anyway, but this speeds up McCain's nomination and the Hucksters dropping out I'm guessing.

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And finally to finish off, a new study on the effectiveness of anti-depressants was released pointing to little or no noticeable difference between clinical improvement over non-chemical options.

In a related story, pets are now being prescribed Anti-depressants...

No, this is strictly a coincidence I'm sure. Nothing at all to do with profit margins...