On one hand, I feel pretty bad for Jenna Bush. I mean, she’s not doing anything that countless other college students haven’t done. These people are making her sound like an alcoholic! At the same time, though, she has to be a real idiot to think that she’s gonna get away with this stuff. I imagine there are probably reporters following her around 24-7 just waiting to catch her trying a sip of al-key-hol.
 
Oh, and another thing. How funny is it that Jenna gets in all kinds of trouble, but her twin sister Barbara doesn’t? They’re like Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield over there.

Holy crap. Buffy finale: made me want to cry. Dawson’s Creek finale: made me want to barf.

The odd thing is, I think it makes him look much better, don’t you?

I know a ferret that will be very excited about this…

I think you misread me, Max. I’m not a hardcore supporter of the legalisation of marijuana, but I am a supporter of the basic human right to do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else. And in my own experience I’ve never seen anybody on pot do anything worse than I’ve seen people do on alcohol. (Granted, people do terrible things when they’re drunk, but in our society we blame that on the individual, not the beer, right?) I’m not a fan of teenagers embracing “pot culture”, either, but I think a big part of it is simply that it’s forbidden. When I was in high school it was “Coed Naked” T-shirts and L.A. Raiders jackets. Now it’s stoner wear. I don’t know anybody who would smoke pot but doesn’t because it’s illegal. They do it anyway. Making it legal isn’t necessarily going to increase the demand. It’s just going to make it regulate-able and keep young people from going to jail (or being denied college funds) for something that doesn’t hurt anybody.
 
Okay, I now eagerly await your rebuttle. Man, this take me right back to being on the Speech team in high school!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Voyeurism is bad. Reality shows are bad. People are all attention-grabbing whores at heart. But I refuse to agree that killing rats and eating them when you’re STARVING is bad. (Sorry, Brigita.) I suppose drowning them was a bit much, but I doubt the animal rights people would have been any happier about Simon whacking their heads off with a machete. And what’s the point of Uzma’s quote? “I saw the vicious side of people, their crass vulgarity.” Since when is doing what people have done since they climbed down out of the trees vicious or vulgar? What does she actually thing goes on in a meat-packing plant? I’ve got no illusions about it, but I don’t think I need to make apologies for it either.

I was just looking at webcams on Amazon when my attention was caught by the lists they have down the side of the page. Some of them are hilarious! Here’re just a couple I saw:

• Gifts for Cord-Haters, by Dan Garlington, Cord-Hater
• Anger Management 101, by halo1000, angry guy
• What I’d buy if I owned a DVD player, by tarunthegreat, Former Amazon intern
• Robbed by the Oscars, a list by Gregory Kastigar, disgruntled Oscar viewer
• Top Five Space/Time Reality Bending Films, by Christopher Ganir, Futurist extraordinaire
• Movies I have written haiku about at www.dimspace.com, by ben@dimspace.com, movie fan

Have you found any funny ones?

It’s very hard to be an American and have the sneaking suspicion that Canada, of all nations, is becoming cooler than you. On a related note, how many people predict a sudden influx of American immigrants to our neighbor up north? Yeah, just about everybody.

If you’re a fan of “The Goon Show” like Snookums is, you should know that BBC Radio are doing an evening of tributes tonight.

Salon as an excellent story on various television season finales and why Buffy rocks so much. It’s got HUGE spoilers, though, so don’t read it if you haven’t seen all of Season 5 yet.