January 2000
January 2000
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Read all about it, then vote for me! Now, to give credit where credit is due, Virginia Tech's QB, Vick, is beyond phenomenal. Geez, that kid moves like a dream -- or a nightmare, depending on what side of the grid you're on. WOW. Get his rookie card when he hits the NFL, cause that man is Super Bowl bound. I predict at least 3 Super Bowl rings in his future. Unfortunately, while Vick is practically an entire offensive unit in one man, he just wasn't enough.
Noles, good job! And now, for his next trick, Mr. Bowden will walk on water...
I'd like to use this opportunity to take Fox to task for its utter mismanagement of the now defunct TV series Millenium and its poor support of X-Files. These were my favorite shows, but the last season of Millenium was so badly written, badly produced, and out of joint with previous story lines that it was unrecognizable, and the X-Files season has thus far given us, what, 4 fair-to-middlin' episodes?! Now there's a quick way to reduce contract demands - make sure no one is watching the show anyway. An actor can't demand much money when the entire fan base has been wiped out. Fox Network, please get your sorry act together and start producing TV that people can look forward to again. It's kind of appropriate so far, don't you think? "Election '00". Cause so far this election is a big fat Zero. I don't really care for any of the candidates. Well, that's not true. I like Steve Forbes, but I don't know that I'd want him to be the President. He should be in the Cabinet, though. He's smart as heck about matters financial, but I wouldn't want to give him carte blanche to get crazy with making laws. I definitely don't like Bush. He's just greezy somehow. He doesn't have pat answers to a lot of things that come up in the debates, and some of the answers he does give, I don't like. Hatch dropped out after the Iowa primaries and blamed it in part on the fact that he's Mormon. Part of his platform was that only he had the experience in politics that would allow him to appoint justices that would uphold such principles as fighting abortion. Hello?! Buddy, I hate to break this to you, but women want the choice, even if their religious beliefs don't give them a choice. I think you'll find this crosses nearly all religious, ethnic, and age lines. *Nobody* likes abortion, but nearly all women want to know that the choice is there, whether they'll admit it in front of their congregations or not. And Bush has taken a very wishy-washy stand on abortion, just to name one topic. Anyway, I don't have time to write about the entire debate process thus far -- my job is killing me one keystroke at a time. One last comment: I don't really care for Gore either. I'd be much more comfortable with him in office than Bush just because you know he'll protect the status quo. It works. No matter what else you might say about Clinton's proud legacy (cough), the economy is great and life is good for just about everyone. I don't completely give Clinton all the credit. I reserve quite a bit of it for Allen Greenspan. But Gore wouldn't touch the inner workings. Who knows what Bush might do? He's not his father, and while I didn't like Bush Sr. either, I had much more confidence in his ability to manage a country. Anyway, more to come... |
Can I call it or what? Well, after cursing Microsoft loudly for months, I was rather silent when the judge in the anti-trust case against America's biggest steam roller came out with his findings of fact and said that MicroDeath-to-Innovation was guilty of illegally abusing its monopolistic death-grip on the computer industry. What's to say? I personally think that breaking Microsoft up is no better or worse than fining them a few billion and making Bill Gates do 50 trillion hours of community service, but I think breaking the company up sends a slightly bigger message, and one that needs to be heard loud and clear now and then. It's a good thing to be successful, so long as you don't utterly destroy all your competitors, prevent anyone else from supporting potential competitors, and leverage your power to take over unrelated markets with sub-par products. Oh, and Microsoft once again must stop diluting the Java language. FANTASTIC! I really think Java and it's class libraries are some the best stuff to come down the pike since Delphi and its Visual Component Library, and The Bill has been trying to kill it before it kills Windows. Well, poop on The Bill and hurray for justice and Java. What happened to our bright, shining boy? Where did we go wrong, Martha? NASA seems to stand now for "Never A Sure Arrival" or something. I realize Mars is a long way away, but for cryin' out loud, we manage to launch and land on the Earth all the time. Is Mars cursed or something? Look at the Mars Pathfinder. What a fantastically simple approach. Get the craft into the atmosphere, deploy parachutes, then inflate massive balloons all around the craft and just before you land, let go of the parachutes. The craft bounced about 11 times and came to rest. The way the shell was designed to open, it automatically righted the craft no matter how it landed. It went off without a hitch. So what's happened since then? Sounds like the engineering and quality control staff needs a serious slap upside the head and steady source of caffeine, because someone's sleeping on the job. Two missions, two failures... Come on guys... This is so stupid. Look, it really doesn't matter if the U.S. is the greatest country on earth. It doesn't matter if Cuba is a poor, communist country. It wouldn't matter if this was Heaven and that was Hell. Elian belongs with his father. His father has a basic right that we have no business denying. Who the hell do Senators Connie Mack, Tom DeLay, Bill McCollum, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Lincoln Diaz-Balart think they are besides vote-grubbing, poll-statistic-suck-ups? If that was my kid and I wanted him with me, then you'd better call on your Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines and all their daddies and big brothers, cause I'd be coming for him. Elian's father's right as Elian's parent CANNOT be denied, and we sully ourselves and our grand self-image as protectors of human rights by doing so. We should be the bigger country and give the boy back and, instead, attempt to mend relations with Cuba so the boy can grow up in a country changed from within by pressure and incentives from without to give him better opportunities and greater freedoms. |
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I grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, home of the Florida State University Seminoles. I've been a fan since I was a little boy, and following the game last night, I would just like to repeat here something I say to any who asks me if I like the Seminoles: "God Bless Bobby Bowden and the *fine* work he's doing!"
You see, last night, the Seminoles didn't just win, they RAN OVER Virginia Tech, giving ole Bobby the one thing he hadn't yet achieved in his long and illustrious career with FSU: A perfect season. FSU went undefeated and took the championship in style.
