one time i was at this party at a club, and i was really destroying on the dance floor. that doesn't happen often, but it did that night. and at least two or three people independently commented that i looked like jack black. which i suppose was fine with me.

i wasn't really thinking about that when naureen wrote about how she thinks that jack black looks all predatory in this ad for some movie:








but it didn't seem quite right. jack black looks like a nice guy to me. and i assure you that i am not biased in saying this.

Had Germany not been defeated in World War II, they would probably have a Nazi government to this day. At some point the government would likely have been forced to adopt a public relations campaign to sanitize its image as an anti-semitic state, to show, in short, that the portrayal of Nazis as prejudiced, blood thirsty murderers is a stereotyped and harmful caricature. Kinda like the Republicans showed everyone that they really think that black people are OK.

To do this the state media would have to produce a series of short documentaries to show the truth about Nazis, that they're really just good, simple guys trying to do a tough job.

Luckily, you don't have to visit an alternate-history universe to watch this, because there is a TV show called "Cops" that is nearly the same thing. But what's really great about Cops is that it can't conceal the real nature of what the police do--put poor people and people of color in prison.

Almost everything that happens on the show is folks getting busted for having small amounts of drugs in their possession, or getting beaten for disobeying a cop's orders. What never fails to amaze me is the total shock that the police seem to feel when someone disobeys them... they just can't believe that this guy tried to swallow his weed before they could search his car (with no reasonable cause.) And yet the show has the arrogance to presume that once you see it, you won't really hate the cops for locking people up for no fucking reason and grabbing them by the neck and barking orders at them. Just doing their jobs.

maybe you're watching the nbc nightly news. if so, you just saw this plastic-haired cracker ass give an important update on home-town-boy-made-good Jose Padilla. about how they have to strap him into one of those mid nineties virtual reality things with the goggles and headphones just to take him to the dentist, or the insurance office or something. i guess cause he might see some slightly radioactive material and use some kind of dark jedi powers to snatch it and then instantly turn it into a dirty bomb.

but what's really important is that it turns out the correct pronunciation of his name rhymes with Godzilla. i guess everyone else in the entire world has been saying it wrong up til now. now that's some professional news reading.

end of broadcast update, about 5:55pm

luckily this was a special edition of the news with fewer commercials; for some reason the anchor kept mentioning that. that's nice, because they had time to squeeze in a segment where plastic hair sucks the ass of some generals who are decomissioning an old air craft carrier. god, that shit would look awesome in hi def!

channel eleven update 6:10pm

what the fuck?! jim lehrer can't even pronounce kofi annan's name right? jesus christ.