I shouldn’t be saying this, since I work for an organization that is principally opposed to its use, but the anti-tobacco froth that’s everywhere in California is absurd. There are more and more local and municipal community advocacy organizations clamoring their city councils to institute smoking bans in multi-unit family housing — they’re basically calling for a ban to smoking in your own goddamn home. Why? Because environmental tobacco smoke, they say, is like the plague. It’s a Class A carcinogen, known to cause lung cancer — and because smoke sort of inevitably drifts about when a heathen smoker exhales, that smoke has the potential of leaving a trace in your nostrils. And if you can smell it, then you could get cancer, potentially.
Bah! This is just emboldening me to shove my ETS deep into their throat and nostrils.
Pissed off about the temporary recall of the Recall?
Unbelievable, this conservative whining that I’ve heard in the past 24 hours. “It’s an affront to our democratic process!” “They’ve hijacked the will of the people!”
Right. As if the process to recall a governor in California happens all the time.
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Why does California need Proposition 54?
Well, according to RPI’s website (http://racialprivacy.org), “Race should become a private matter that is no business of government’s. Think how refreshing it would be to throw out the entire system of checking little boxes.”
Those damn little check boxes! Wouldn’t it be so much nicer if race and ethnicity could be blurred and obscured to the periphery, so that they were no longer factors that divided us?
Wouldn’t it also be nice if our world leaders could all meet together once a month to hold hands and sing camp songs around a fire…? Imagine that, we would have never had the destruction of 9/11 if Osama had been holding Dubyah’s hand on a regular basis…!
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Thanks for the update, April!
Fox goes on the offensive with ‘Banzai’
http://www.dallasnews.com/entertain…bark.d535f.html
07/13/2003
By ED BARK / The Dallas Morning News
Fox calls it “wildly inventive.” Others see it as stupendously stereotypical.
Whatever your reaction, Banzai assuredly won’t go quietly into the night. A cult favorite in Britain, it arrives on these shores Sunday with all of its hot spots intact. They include loud, crude Asian dialect (“You brave little chicken! We never forget you!”); a competition between a one-legged soccer kicker and a one-armed goalie; two seniors playing “Old Lady Wheelchair Chicken Challenge” and a chicken named Larry that’s used as a guinea pig in a helium balloon stunt.
“I think we’re trying to create the type of comedy that attracts the young Fox demographic,” says Scott Grogin, Fox’s vice president of corporate communications. “We didn’t get as far as we are without taking risks.”
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If we were incarcerated for our safety, why were we inside the barbed wire fences, and why were the gun towers facing us?
- Rep. Mike Honda
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