Cause here's how it works: every blogger makes a prediction. An outcome happens. Every correct blogger pats themselves on the back (publicly). Every wrong blogger links to every correct blogger with a note about how influential blogging is and how it's changing journalism, and then something about the "blogosphere," and then I complain some more about how much I hate that word. They appropriate the cachet of their peers to tide them over until they make a lucky guess themselves.

Cause after all, if Springfield is so great, how come we beat them at football nearly half the time?

Anyway, things will pick up on Monday night when Iowa is over. Then 8 more days, then we're probably done, thank goodness.

so i know i was also guilty of this, but at least not every post of mine has been about it...anyway i am so fricking tired of every single blogger and every single pundit and every single journalist writing articles about so-and-so's odds in iowa. shut up. just shut up. nobody has any idea. as much as i would like to think i can, no one can predict it. and if you predicted it, you're just ass lucky. so shut up. shut up. you're annoying me.
TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES PLEASE (or why bush is a corporate whore) because no one cares about a fucking guessing game. anymore, at least. it's fun for a while, but now i pretty much just want to shoot myself in the head.

i hope kucinich wins in iowa. that would be awesome. i can see the bloggers' faces now...

One of these things is not like the others: Clarín of Buenos Aires reported that when Argentine President Néstor Kirchner mentioned to his U.S. counterpart that all but one of the Argentine officials attending a bilateral meeting had been jailed during the military dictatorship, Bush responded, "I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons." According to Clarín, this was a reference to an arrest for drunken driving.

I remain glass-eyed and calm. Like a Hindu cow, whose jobs are apparently pretty stress-free. Perhaps it has something to do with my resolution to drink more. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with any of those other resolutions that, in retrospect, were useful mainly as proofs of concept.

I realize we're kind of behind the curve on this one, but Catherine and I saw School of Rock last night. It was nice, but it was not the life-changing, mind-altering, let's-all-put-on-robes-and-climb-in-the-back-of-a-windowless-van-and-chant-for-a-bit sort of experience I was hoping for. Maybe a little too much coasting on the cuteness of the kids and the audience's general goodwill toward the cast. However, as Jeff is always quick to point out in a way that is actually less gay than it sounds: you cannot overstate the value of a Big Musical Number. And the movie delivers on that count.

Perhaps my capacity for laughing at Jack Black was just badly skewed the Tenacious D DVD's skits, like "Rock Star Sperm For Sale" and, of course, "Butt Baby". Maybe as I watched SoR some part of my brain was saying "Sure Jack Black is making you laugh, but are you also horrified? DOES NOT COMPUTEXOR0xE486"

i've decided maybe this blog should be called "catherine hates everything" or "catherine is a really angry person" or "catherine's insane rants that take place in the morning before she fully ingests her cup of coffee." yeah. i realized that maybe if someone were to read this who doesn't know me might think i'm an irrational pissy bitch. and the people who read this and do know me might confirm that point of view.

but i can't help it. there is so much to be angry about! for example. cbs has decided not to run the winner of the moveon.org anti-bush ad campaign during the superbowl, even though moveon.org has the funds to pay for the 30-second spot. this is ludicrous. i can understand if the ad were a hate-fueled rant comparing bush to the nazis, which apparently some of the entries were. but this one was a pretty good, polished and i thought moving entry. subtle, also, and didn't address the war in iraq but instead the massive deficit and how future generations will have to pay it off. but cbs, who if you will remember was the lame-ass station who decided not to air an apparently critical series about the reagans due to conservative pressure, says, in what is also a lame-ass defense:

"Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising.
A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super Bowl or the ad's specific issue but was because the network has had a long-term policy not to air issue ads anywhere on the network."

which is completely lame-ass because cbs IS AIRING ISSUES AD DURING THE SUPERBOWL. anti-smoking ads. anti-drug ads from the white house (ie "terrorists use drugs and if you buy them you caused september 11" campaign).

anyway the only good i can see in this is that it will increase the visibility of moveon.org and the ad even more than it would have otherwise.

GRR!