Kids wear the darndest things...

I not very big into Halloween, but there is just no way one can deny children the right to look oh so cute in costumes. I was sent this funny site by Dan Savage filled with kids who probably don't realize what exactly it is they are wearing or what it means. I don't really agree with dressing your children up in costumes they can't comprehend or using your kids for political purposes. But man, are they cute.!

Personally, I can't wait to have children and dress them up as fuzzy animals.

Could it be the protest song of a new generation...

I just watched Eminem's new video Mosh. A must see.

I've never been much of a fan, but this is one time I can relate. You have to watch, if for nothing else than it's visual appeal. But most importantly, It's really empowering.

And just when the song gets you to the point where you are about to violently burst, they show you where to direct your anger.

No civil liberty left inviolated...

Kos of dailykos.com fame just posted this email sent from Wisconsin.

A friend with a child in the Richland County,WI high school where George Bush appears today reports the following. Students were told they could not wear any pro-Kerry clothing or buttons or protest in any manner, at the risk of expulsion. After a parent inquired, an alternative activity will be provided, probably a movie being shown in an auditorium.

It's depraved enough to force people who decide to come to your rally from wearing anything anti-Bush, or even something perceived as anti-Bush. People have been arrested for their clothing at these events. But to take over a school for a day and then dictate what the children can and can not do or say or wear or think is the lowest this campaign has sunk to ensure nothing embarrassing ends up on the news. This is what those kids are learning about democracy. When someone has enough power they can tell you what to do, say, or even wear. That's the "education president" for you.

One more week of this shit.

How many times can I mention how unattractive she is in this post...

Could Ashlee have been lying to us all this time?

Watching Saturday Night Live this past weekend with musical guest Ashlee Simpson, my boyfriend and I speculated on how talented she is in relation to her older sister, Jessica. We determined that while we couldn't think of a single song that Jessica sang (we are very old and out of touch, it would seem), Ashlee seemed more talented, if much less pretty. That was our professional bitchy-gay opinion during her first performance of the night, Pieces of Me. When she came on for her second performance, Ashlee's voice started singing Pieces of Me over the loudspeaker, while the band started playing a different song, and the real Ashlee looked terrified and confused and started hopping around looking like an idiot before slinking off-stage. NBC quickly cut to a commercial while her singer-less band continued to play.

Being a moron, I didn't realize what happened. At the very end of the show, she appeared with guest host Jude Law (and got to actually hug him lots! SWOON!) to lie to the public.

From the AP story:

"What can I say?" guest host Jude Law said with Simpson standing next to him at the end of the show. "Live TV."

"Exactly," Simpson said. "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoe-down."

Her record company, Geffen Records, said there was a computer glitch. Instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started mistakenly performing, the record company said in a statement.

Sorry, Ashlee but the track that played your fake voice wasn't a recording of your song. It was a voice track to fake your singing!

I feel like we need to ask an important question. Why is SNL assisting artists in their lies by allowing them to lip-synch on their stages? They are supposed to be a performance venue, if albeit an irrelevant one. They should at least require their crappy guests to perform. God knows she isn't getting paid for her looks.

I feel so betrayed. How can the ugly sister of one of America's favorite Newlyweds treat us this way? And that "oops, sorry everyone, I may be a liar, but I'm such a darn cute one" shtick may have worked for you during our much beloved MTV reality show, The Ashlee Simpson Show, but back then you were only a passing fad who could sing. Now we know the truth. And it isn't pretty!

Up in the air?...

In what can only be described as the safest interview he is likely to ever do on television, Bush told Hannity and Colmes that our safety was "up in the air." Well with him in the White House on January 21st, he may have finally gotten something right in this election.

Bush also went on to say that there was no evidence of a pre-election terrorist plot in the United States, but that he feels you should all still be very scared of one anyway.

"We do believe that they have -- because of what happened in Madrid -- that they do think about whether or not they can try to disrupt our elections," Bush said.

He said there was "nothing specific" pointing to a pre-election attack but rather "a kind of general intent."

That's the strategy for the final weeks of Bush's campaign: be afraid of nothing specificlly, and therefore, everything generally.