Monday at the video store, I was joking around with a customer about collecting, when I had the following epiphany:

Obsession fuels capitalism

Listening to: “Sentimental Lady” - Bob Welsh

Sorry for the lack of anything original recently, but work has been crazy. The good news is that I have my Top 20 albums narrowed down to 23 and have to start making deeper cuts. I’m hoping to start the countdown next week.

And now to our post… This is a combination of the duh series and the morning headline series. After seeing her vagina on millions of gossip websites, this headline showed up on CNN just now:

Britney: I went a ‘a little too far’ with partying

Big breath. Inhale. And now out with the breath: duuuuuuuuuuuh.

Listening to: Paul McCartney - Scissor Sisters

Hmmm, the first thought is whether this could be turned into a recurring segment.  Anyway…

• I swear the people at Apple have a sense of humor. I currently have 12,567 song in my iPod of which around 200 are holiday songs. Yes, I keep them in my iPod year-round. I’m one of those freaks. Mathematically, that is 1.5% of the total music in my iPod yet since the beginning of November everytime I hit shuffle Eduardo plays one holiday song within the first 20. I honestly think the conniving little programmers in the iPod division put it in the software. Speaking of holiday music, you should really give Aimee Mann’s One More Drifter In The Snow a listen. It’s actually a great holiday album without the sap of, say, a Celine Dion Christmas album.
• Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging. This is wrong, wrong, wrong! It is completely out of line with his crimes. He should have been sentenced to a year of oppression, ridicule and torture and then been raped and cold-bloodily murdered as if he were just a number in Enron’s accounting books being erased to hide the shame of the deed. What? You were thinking it, too.
• The New York Times will publish its endorsement page tomorrow and it will not include ANY Republican this year. Yes, they lean more left, but to have no Republicans on their page is very telling. My biggest problem with the current administration is they have left (pun intended) no room for any checks and balances. They have taken the power "given" to them and excluded all ideals except their own. Exactly the way I expect the re-re-formed United Artists movie studio under Tom Cruise’s control to be run. Hat tip to Kath for bringing the news.
• In the Duh department, Ted Haggard said he was "a deceiver and a liar". Damn, I wish I could stop there, but he is such an easy target. Okay, one more. He also claims he has a lifetime sexual problem. First, there is nothing wrong with sex between consenting adults of the same gender unless your lifetime problem is listening to and believing bigoted and intolerant family members and their friends (no, that doesn’t include when one adult is married and has a bunch of kids). Second, I confess that I believe him when he says he didn’t have sex. One of the side effects of crystal meth is decreased blood flow to extremities so there would have been a — shall we say — delay in erecting his steeple.

Listening to: You Never Done It Like That - Captain & Tennille (oh, yes I am, too!)