quick question

just a quick question for California lawmakers: why is it perfectly legal for me to type this on my iphone while driving, but I’ll get pulled over if I start talking to someone? I realize neither option is all that safe, but why not go after the lesser of two evils?

foiled again (pt.2)

just so everyone knows, and because i forgot to mention it after i found out, those nilla cakesters taste like shit. like, actually. as far as i can imagine anyway. i tried one because i was curious and had such high hopes. they are horrible. horrible little horribles that taste of all things horrible. there is no nilla, there is no cake-y-ness. there is only horrible. where there should be nilla there is bland, and where there should be cakester there is only what i imagine a stale sun-dried twinkie would feel like. so scratch that off the list. now i just have all those other temptation foods to worry about.

i started the twitter thing this week. only because it’s on my iphone now though. i’ll follow you if you follow me

good ole politics

i read cnn.com several times a day. partially cause i like staying informed on things, and partially because i’m secretly a 57 year old man. check out this article though. basically what it’s saying is that because it happens to be the summer before a major election, congress is doing nothing. energy prices are the highest they’ve been in at least twenty years, people are losing their homes and turning suburbia into ghost towns, but congress is going to play it safe and only vote on stuff that looks good in a re-election ad. and while getting rid of lead in toys and ending malaria in the third world is good and important, those aren’t exactly the issues facing most Americans. but the mortgage and energy crises? that can totally wait until 2009. the sad thing is that I know this isn’t anything new. it’s been happening every four years for at least the past century.

i think I’m right between “idealistic young voter” and “disenfranchised american.” I’m looking forward to being the “old white guy who votes for other old white guy.”