This morning I got home from work at 6am and before I went to sleep I checked out my Twitter, just to see what’s going on in the world. I wasn’t surprised to see the usual internet-narrations of just about everything: “I’m eating here” or “I’m going there” or “I just made Palidin level 71.” But what I WAS surprised to see was something that I had heard nothing about previously: all the moms calling for a boycott of Motrin, the over-the-counter pain reliever.

This caught my attention for two reasons: the first, because I couldn’t imagine why this boycott was urged by all of the sweet, nurturing moms out there, and secondly because Twitter was being used to spread the word faster than any rally, news article, cable news network, even blog.

As it turns out, Motrin has a video ad on their site that is a graphical “momologue” - that is, a narration by a mom set to some (very well done, in my opinion) images and moving text. However, this ad is apparently offensive to many of the moms out here. Here’s a YouTube link to the ad (which may or may not stay up very long); here is the text of the ad, followed by more on the controversy:

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Just a quick blurb on a couple TV shows. First of all let’s all just say it, Entourage sucks now. I mean the did FINALLY change the plot. Until now it was the same thing over and over. Ari finds Vince a movie, he rejects it on principle, Ari fights to get it back….repeat. Sprinkle in weed smoking and a naked chick once in a while. Great. But even the new plot bores me.

Now, Californication is probably my second favorite show these days. Great show and Hank Moody is a classic character that I never tire of and the storyline is great. Always changing and always hilarious in that dark way I love. If you have not watched this show, get on it. It’s now more than half through season two and getting good.

Last, Weeds. Now I just got on this train over the last month and it is now my favorite by far. (Post Curb) Dark comedy and by far the most interesting characters and stories of any of the shows. Very original and you almost never know what will happen next. It’s one shit storm after another. Hilarious and dramatic all at once. I have watched the first three seasons and will begin four soon. Season four looks to start a whole completely new angle. Can’t wait to see it and for those that have seen it all, don’t blow it for me.

Anyway, I hope there is a new Curb Your Enthusiasm soon. I have not heard if it’s coming back but that will always be #1 on my list. Glad to say I now watch zero reality TV and I am smarter for it. But to me Showtime has now taken over HBO for best series. Not even close.

Real quick, I’d like to apologize for not being as active on here since the election - I’m actually looking into a lot of things that could make this site better, and planning a major redesign for it after the release of Wordpress 2.7 (sometime this month, hopefully). I’m also redoing a friend’s site and researching some other things that might help me quit my job soon. But anyways, let’s do this:

PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH - The battle about whether or not the city of Pleasant Grove can continue to display a monument that contains the Ten Commandments in a city park rages on, and has reached the Supreme Court level. Even though the Supreme Court ruled that the Government can display the Ten Commandments in public places as “part of a broader display of historical or moral symbols,” this case is different inasmuch as it is not about the Establishment Clause, yet is more focused on free speech and other religious groups being able to promote their message as well. The complainants in this case are the Summums, a religious group founded in 1975, that would like to display their “seven aphorisms” in the park as well, and claim that their right of free speech guarantees them the right to do so.

Sorry, but aliens and stuff I see on the X-Files is even more retarded than Joseph Smith and Mormonism.

However, the City, who was given the monument that contains the Ten Commandments in 1971 by The Fraternal Order of Eagles, is considering arguing that the monument is government speech, and therefore not subject to equal access of everybody else. But, the Summums’ legal team argues, if this is the case then the government is adopting the Ten Commandments as its own, and that then goes against the Establishment Clause, which states that the Government may not establish its own religion. So either way, the Summums see it, either they should have the same right to put their display, or the Ten Commandments on the monument should be removed. But they’re wrong. Here’s why:

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That’s right, I’m a 100% heterosexual man and I hate strip clubs. I have been trying think of a lighter non political post the last couple days. I have a few in mind but then I was talking to a buddy of mine who has has over the last few days been forced to go to a couple of these places and he expressed to me how he hates them as well. So that’s where this comes from.

I remember a while back when Steve and I were thinking of stuff to put on this site that we had a idea to do strip club reviews here in Honolulu. Well that never happened because (A) except maybe one they all get a failing grade and (B) I just don’t want to go. Now don’t get me wrong there was a time in my  20’s that I thought is was fun. But that was only because I had never done it and it was kind of exciting. Now I am 34 and I can’t think of anywhere else I would less like to be except maybe a hostess bar. A hostess bar is a club where women are there for you, dressed well and supposed to be more classy. But you pay them insane amounts of money and you buy them drinks just to TALK to you. No nakedness, no dancing, zero dry humping in a booth, just talk. It’s an Asian thing. I don’t know if they have these on the mainland. Anyway, I can’t stand being in a place with 7 dollar Bud Lights where the women actually kind of harass you for private dances. Obviously the place is filled with men and the weird part is that they are all horny and sitting real close to each other….silent.  I don’t want to be around of dudes packing boners 6 inches away from me. It’s like when a guy wants you to watch a porn with him. It’s awkward, not right. Then you make eye contact and it’s all even more awkward and weird. Outside of a bachelor party or two, which I consider the only appropriate time to visit, the place is packed with creepy characters. There is the old married guy there alone, the fat dudes that never have touched a girl they didn’t pay for, random black guys trying to kick game to all the dancers and thinking that it’s working and the massage guy. There is always a guy you see giving the dancers shoulder massages at the bar. There is at least one every club and he is there daily.  Then there is the guy who isn’t fat, married, ugly or desperate. He looks normal and probably has a girlfriend back home but he just has some weird obsession with the strip clubs. We all know a guy like that. It’s always his idea to go and when he wants to go, he WANTS to go. [Read more →]

Just thought with everybody hemming and hawing about election stuff I could give everyone a quick reminder about what makes America so great: YouTube, Idiots, and Video Cameras. Enjoy.

God Bless America.

Here’s an interesting clip from YouTube: former Presidential hopeful Ron Paul discussing his idea of “Obama Fever” and pointing out that it isn’t necessarily all Obama’s job to change everything in America that everybody wants change: it’s also the American peoples’ job to hold the President, whoever it is, accountable for that change.

I couldn’t agree more with Ron Paul. I feel that many of Obama’s supporters think that simply putting somebody new in the White House could actually have a huge impact. Well, I think it’s easier for that person to have a huge negative impact than a positive impact, but such is the case with almost everything. 2006 saw a shift in Congress to be a democratic majority. What has happened since then? Phone taps, the Patriot Act still there, troops still in Iraq - and that is 2/3 of the decision-making power in our government.

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That’s my opinion anyway. See I could care less about religion, if you do that’s fine. But it should have nothing to do with voting for a president. If you took the South and Midwest out of the equation there would never be a Conservative in any office, except maybe Ron Paul but he is way outside the box of the Republican Party. I don’t care what church Obama went to. Can anyone honestly tell me they think our president is going to rise up against the white man because he once had a pastor that was a bit insane. Newsflash, most hardcore Christian leaders are in fact crazy and fanatical about something. It’s all brainwashing to me on some level. That is why it should play no role in the voting process. It’s all scare tactics by the right that have been trying to scare us all for years. Remember the terror rating system we used to have that was meant to scare you on a daily basis. It’s an orange day, it’s a yellow day….gimme a break. I’m not scared, if it happens, it happens. Every president will do his part to protect us all. Bush used it as a tool and I hate him but at least he was trying make us safe and Obama will too. If you think otherwise, you’re insane. [Read more →]

Well, America, you have spoken. The big news I guess is that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. Additionally, the Senate’s majority is Democrat, which isn’t too surprising. Actually, no part of this area of the election is too surprising to me - disappointing, absolutely, but surprising, no. Now that it’s over though, I feel that I can say that I didn’t want Barack Obama to win, and think that all the hype surrounding him and the talk of him “fixing America” and otherwise changing the world is ludicrous, and more than anything just inexperienced, starry-eyed pipe dreams. For proof of that, just look at the DJIA and the NASDAQ today: both down. It’s not quite as easy as just electing somebody new, and suddenly everything’s better. But maybe we should wait until January for that one.

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So today is expected to be the highest voter turnout in US History (percentage-wise). To me, that’s exciting. Maybe it’s the blogs, the MySpace, the Facebook, the YouTube… whatever the reason, it’s awesome. And many of you have asked for whom I voted.

I voted for change. Even though many people would argue that your own vote doesn’t matter, and I actually read an article yesterday saying that the odds of your one vote being the deciding factor in the election are about 1 in 60M, depending on the state you’re in.

If that’s the case, why vote? And why is everybody rushing to the polls? Because like me, I think people are voting for change. No matter for whom they are voting, we are all sending a message saying that things in America aren’t too good right now, and we expect change, no matter who takes office. We’re voting not for Obama or Mc Cain, but letting it known that we, as Americans, do care, and are doing our part to get involved. Especially here in Hawaii, where our vote is arguably the least important of anybody else’s, and has historically had the lowest voter turnout in the country, it’s our job to let Washington and the mainland know that we are an active part of the US, and we do care and are involved with what goes on in our government.

So especially here in Hawaii, I believe everybody should get out there and vote, if for no other reason to be a statistic, one more person who voted. Let them know that Hawaii isn’t as far away, cut off, and apathetic about the mainland as everybody thinks.

So yeah, I voted. But for whom, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is the message that I’m sending. Plus, if it doesn’t turn out how I like it, because I voted I have once again earned my license to bitch, complain, make fun of, and criticize whoever does become President, because at least I know I did what I could to change America.

Still need a reason? Here’s the second installment of the 5 Friends/ Don’t Vote campaign that we posted a while ago. But this one’s better - it’s got Borat. And Harrison Ford. And according to them, it was only 537 votes that decided the 2000 election. So you’ve still got time most places, but you’d better hurry! Vote, damnit!

I make no secret of my thoughts and it’s people like these that scare me. The Bible? Enough of that..