It's beginning to look a lot like September

So I heard the first Christmas song of the year already, accompanied by decorations, lights, and a about five Christmas trees. It was horrible. I guess that's what I get for wandering into Kohl's yesterday. September 26th - I'm sure that breaks all the records from previous years; I usually don't have to start bitching about Christmas music until at least November.

Don't misundertand me - I love Christmas. I just think celebrating it when I can still wear shorts and a t-shirt outside is a little bit crazy. I'm guessing Kohl's decided that since the economy was in a lousy state they'd better start early so they can wring every last little drop of holiday cheer out of their customers' wallets. Hey, if they keep it up, we may no longer be restricted to using evergreens as Christmas trees. I'll just be able to walk across the street, cut down one of my neighbor's maple trees in the blazing hot July sun, drag it into my house, and have myself a merry little Christmas for the next six months.

I'm going to find out who the managers of that store are, and I'm going to send them a calendar for Christmas. And maybe a chia pet too just to insult them.

The end of the world? Oh man not again!

So I heard on the news this morning that the world was going to end because a bunch of crazy scientists are going to fire up some sort of hadron uber-collider thingy and its going to create a huge black hole or something. I'm really scared - I don't think I'm ready for the world to end again. I mean didn't we learn our lesson from Y2K? I really think all our "advanced" technology is totally out of control - this'll be the second time this decade that the entire world has been destroyed by our own technology. We really need to stop destroying the entire planet or one of these days someone is going to get hurt.

I don't know when exactly they're going to start up this hadron-collider death star thingamajig, or whether they have already, but there isn't much I can do to stop it. I guess I'll just spend the last minutes of my life sitting behind a workstation writing python code like it's my job, because it is.

Palin? McCain? McNuggets?

From wikipedia:

"Palin has described the Republican party platform as 'the right agenda for America,' adding 'individual freedom and independence is extremely important to me and that's why I'm a Republican.'"

From the very same wiki page, six sentences later:

"Palin opposes same-sex marriage and supported a non-binding referendum for a constitutional amendment to deny state health benefits to same-sex couples."

I'm not sure I can even describe how I felt when I read that, but it's something like being hugged and punched in the face at the same time.

Individual freedom and independence. Also, your sex life is entirely my business and I should be able to deny you health care based on it. Also, individual freedom and independence. Did I mention individual freedom? Because I want you to have it. Just make sure you don't romantically involve yourself with anyone whose genitalia is similar to yours.

...So much hypocrisy crammed into such a small paragraph, I'm surprised the wiki page hasn't yet collapsed in on itself under the weight of it's own gravitational force.

Oh hey and while we're being retarded, let's just go ahead and support the teaching of creationism in public school as well. (And if we're going to do that we really need to include other alternatives to science in the curriculum.)

Ugh. I can't stand McCain, I can't stand Obama, I can't stand McCain's running mate... I'm thinking it's going to be a symbolic vote for Ron Paul at this point. Or a write-in for Ronald McDonald. Or anyone but the major party candidates.