One man’s summary of the political scene

Romney:  One of the very plutocrats that are overthrowing this country.  Mega-rich former CEO making tens of millions annually just on investments, and paying the low 15% interest rate on them.

Gingrich:  former lobbyist (though he denies it), two-timing philandering husband, having affair while leading impeachment trial against Clinton, first Speaker of the House to ever be charged with ethics violations, undisciplined leader-by-chaos with 7-figure line of credit at Tiffany’s.

Perry:  In-your-face Evangelical opportunist, howlingly ignorant loser.

Paul:  Proponent of “Austrian School Economics”, isolationist, calls global warming a hoax.  Some good ideas, but unelectable.

Santorum:  Blown up in media for his opposition to contraception and support for criminalization of all non-traditional-marriage sex acts.  Positions on other issues?  Who cares.

Obama:  Most authentic Christian testimony of the ‘08 race, faithful to his wife, blameless of political scandal.  Attacked in the most unbridled vituperation, not for his behavior, but for his ideas, race and parentage by those who want to protect their hoarded millions.  Pro-entrepreneurship, pro-civil rights, balanced on military, good public speaker.  Not perfect.  Did not keep all his campaign promises.  Unable to succeed against the Tea Party congress.  Thwarted in his efforts to regulate mortgage and investment industry.  But the best candidate in the field at this time.

Kim who?

Am I the only one who finds Kim Kardashian completely forgettable?  A cartoon face generated ex nihilo from the pure white noise of pop culture?  A sock puppet?

A sex object masquerading as a whore?  A purveyor of skanky, fennel-cake New Jersey perfumes?  An idol to herself soliciting worshippers to the new cult of herself?

 I know the name because it’s forced upon me by the grocery store checkout.  I have no idea what she does except blog about herself.  I hear she’s on Leno and Letterman a lot.  I hear she’s one of those people who is famous for being famous.  Just the latest Paris Hilton.  Thankfully, that means her popularity will become passe’ in a year or so.

Supposedly she’s attractive.  I wouldn’t know.  I had to google her to find out what she looks like.  And for the life of me, I CANT REMEMBER HER FACE.  No joke.  The minute I look away, I forget what she looks like!  If I saw her on the street, I wouldn’t recognize her.

Which gives me a certain satisfaction, actually.

I would do anything to make her cry.

Tried iTunes movie rental, gave up

Here is my chance to advise everyone never to use iTunes to watch a movie.

The download took about 45 minutes because the maximum rate that the Apple servers will send to you is about 800 Kb/sec, even if you have a big fat pipe to the internet.

I rented the movie Contagion twice in attempt to watch it.  Both times, the movie crashed during playback and locked my computer.  I had to manually kill the iTunes application to get control of my computer back.

Then when I restarted iTunes, the movie wasn’t there to ‘resume’.  I ended up buying it twice and never finishing.  Not going to do that again.  In fact, this is my first encounter with streaming a movie from something other than Netflix, and it was unsuccessful, and stole my money.

Am I prepared to navigate the customer support system to get my $8 back?   No.

I’ll just wait for the DVD to come in the mail from Netflix.  But if you’ve been wondering about renting from iTunes, I suggest you stay away.  They haven’t figured it out yet.  At least not in my experience.

American products

Wonder why the world hates Americans?

  ‘Lazy’ used to be a bad thing

Doesn’t this just make you want to hurl?