And this guy can be the female superhero in your new Wacko Justice League. Does the Internet breed these people or is it an outlet for the insanity that’s always been in our society?
Are my posts too full of rhetorical questions today?
Is the Chandra Levy case getting too much attention?
Have all the other missing persons cases in the world gotten this much attention? Don’t those people’s families deserve this type of search for their missing loved ones? Is the media an evil, damn, dirty ape?
According to the new roster for the Cleveland Browns, they have a player named Ben Gay. The back of his jersey will say, B GAY.
I can’t wait to hear the TV announcer say, “The Tight-End has Ben Gay! He drops to his knees on the 20.”
On this date back in 1174, Joseph Priestley (No, not Jason Priestley) discovered Oxygen. How we breathed up until that point, I have no idea.
I’ve been hearing an alarming statistic lately. I’ve heard it in a few places. I read it on CNN.com a few days ago, I heard it on a commercial, and I read it in ON Magazine (at one point called TIME Digital). The statistic is this. ““Soon, there will be more people using the Internet than there are people on the planet.” Ok, I was a Creative Writing major in college. I did date a Math Major for a few months, but none of her intelligence for math rubbed off on me. And even though I’ve sworn never to do math in public, I’m going to attempt it here. Stand back.
OK, there are roughly 6 billion people on the planet right now. If that phrase is true that there will be more people on the planet using the internet than actual people on planet, then that would mean that more than 6 billion people will be using the internet. This throws me because I’m not sure how that is possible. Are there humans around that no one is aware of, or are we opening the Web to other planets now? As a Web copywriter and designer, that bugs me. Will I have to translate copy into Guijubetubian or whatever the fuck they speak in Zeta Reticuli?
Or, is that phrase, more people on the Web than there are people on the planet, one of those purposely confusing statements like Al Gore’s “I took the initiative in creating the Internet?” Where it’s general enough to fit in a sound bite, yet not quite fact based, but yet isn’t completely inaccurate.
But I’m still thrown by it. How can there be more people on the Web than there are people on the planet? Must be that new Algebra the kids are studying these days.
The Green Party is going to seek National Status. I’m all for legitimate third party candidates, but I’m not sure the Green Party is it. They are still a little to… out there. If you read their platform, and I mean read it all (everything from education, to defense, the economy, the environment, abortion; to capital punishment) you will see that they have interesting ideas in one or maybe two area’s, but they are sorely and grossly underdeveloped in all the other areas. For example, Nader had interesting ideas on consumer confidence, but he wanted to bring home every single GI that was stationed overseas. That’s a completely ludicrous idea, and it’s ideas like that that ultimately got him laughed at.
Fuck it. I’m starting the Llama Party. Cosbysweater? Ready to run? I’m putting you up for Governor of Ohio. Just appoint me to some cushy job where I have no responsibility but get paid well.
July 18th: The safety system on a Texas roller coaster kicks in and stops the train, stranding passengers 225 feet in the air. No injuries.
July 22nd: In Kansas, a train’s brakes fail and it slams into a second train that was loading passengers for the next ride. Seven people get minor injuries.
July 27th: Two trains collide on a New Hampshire amusement park roller coaster. Five people are injured.
July 30th: The wheel of a tilt-a-whirl-like ride comes off its spindle at Michigan’s Adventure Amusement Park. Twenty-five people hurt.
July 31st: Cosbysweater dons a dress and cancels his plans to visit Ohio’s Cedar Point.