Some random shit that I've missed, due to 12 hour shifts and the trip this past weekend:

Congrats to the Cardinals, even though I was rooting for the Tigers.

The Wire continues, week after week, to show why it's the best show on TV.

The Lions fucking won another one! Woah. And the Dolphins beat the Bears! This weekend was bizarro world for football.

Let's-go, Blue-states! (bump, bump, bumpbumpbump!) Fuck the Republicans and their would-be-totalitarian asses.

I got into an interesting discussion with some jackoff about the Patriot act, who opined that my opposition to it meant that I didn't favor wiretapping terrorists. I got to use one of my all-time favorite sarcasto-lines:

"Oh, we're wiretapping TERRORISTS! Why didn't you say so? Of course, if we want to hold on to any serious claim that it's terrorists that we're wiretapping, then I think it might be prudent for the people that want to put the taps into place to be able to give some - I don't know, what might the term be - probable cause? - that the targets in fact do have terrorist connections. I think that that probable cause - let's call it PC for short - should probably have to be signed off on by someone that's familiar with the law - let's say, maybe, a judge - so that we can be sure that the system isn't being abused by overzealous agents of the government, so that there is a paper trail of accountability. And of course, to show the phone companies when we're tapping into their clients' phones, we probably want to put this all down on a piece of paper - I dunno - we could call it something like a "warrant". What do you think? I think this'll revolutionize the system! Enable the government to listen in on people who it has reasonable cause to believe are connected to terrorists - or any criminal organization, for that matter - while still assuaging those of us that value freedom and accountability in the people that we entrust with positions of power!

He was a little flustered. It felt oh so happy.