cartoon fever, bad music, winter weather and "conviction"...

seems the university of illinois daily illini was not alone as a college paper publishing the cartoons "to begin a productive dialogue" (and how insulting a section of your readership opens productive dialogue i may never understand)...oddly enough, the list mostly includes midwestern schools (namely those in wisconsin and illinois). ah yes...the hidden bigotry of the midwest. the area of the country where anyone will smile to your face, but if you are brown, black, yellow, red, or any immigrant their eyes will burn you with the distrust and hatred hiding beneath their exterior.

don't get me wrong, i love the midwest, it is my home...but it is racist as hell. you want to see where brown v. board never made it? hit up the school system in any midwestern urban center...hell, even champaign schools are divided eerily along racial lines. afterall, chicago police took it upon themselves (at the mayor's order) to bash in the skulls of any black that so much as looked like he might agree with mlk back in the day.

so thanks daily illini (and yes, a paper with a name like that, representing a school that appealed a decision by the ncaa that they could not use the racist symbol they were used to, even after being allowed to keep the name...printed more bigotted crap in the name of free speech)...you've done us transplants proud.

i was perusing the music collection of a young man yesterday...unfortunately he was not young enough to forgive such horrors as two blink 182 albums, jack johnson, and an inexplicable hatred of all things bowie. so to the rest of you simply thumbing through the top 40 lists for the latest additions to your collection...please god...get out more...support the music, not the machine.

it looks like winter today...grey skies, slight wind...snow is on it's way. and hopefully it won't stop for a month. god i miss winter...those shots of the east coast burried after the latest blizzard actually brought tears...somebody get me out of this place...

there is a new show coming out called "conviction" based on the lives of young prosecutors. where is the show for the ones that really struggle to do justice...the young public defender. you want to know how life is for young prosecutors? they get twice the pay of a public defender for one tenth of the case load. they ignore constitutional safeguards, and they lie, cheat and steal as much as any attorneys out there. many of them do not consider justice done unless they add a "win" to their rap sheet... and contrary to everything they like to pretend on law and order and all those crappy shows... they are mostly beyond conservative (although they will claim they are liberal democrats). please god let that show fail...

you've got a damn big suv... it can ride through a swamp, climb a hill real tall, it's got 4-wheel drive so you can cruise around the mall.