Sorry to get all political

But it's important lately...

So, the man who has his finger on the nuclear strike button (Cheney, duh), is more paranoid than Cheech and Chong. From Vanity Fair:

"Purdum reports that Cheney travels with a chemical-biological suit at all times. When he gave his friend Robin West and his twin children a ride to the White House a couple of years ago, West commented on the fact that Cheney’s motorcade varied its daily path. “And he said, ‘Yeah, we take different routes so that “The Jackal” can’t get me,’” West tells Purdum. “And then there was this big duffel bag in the middle of the backseat, and I said, ‘What’s that? It’s not very roomy in here.’ And [Cheney] said, ‘No, because it’s a chemical-biological suit,’ and he looked at it and said, ‘Robin, there’s only one. You lose.’”

"This is scary stuff, indeed. For those of you under 40ish, "The Day of the Jackal" was a Frederick Forsyth thriller, made into a 1973 movie, that follows an assassin's attempt to kill Charles DeGaulle (Spoiler alert: He misses...duh). For some men, four heart attacks might trigger a kind of fatalism, but the Cheney effect seems to be the reverse, an over-the-top survivalist instinct -- no doubt worsened by his many months brooding in "undisclosed locations" -- and the growing belief that people are out to get him on every street corner."


Also, I heard on NPR some conservative ranting about how we need to celebrate our commonalities and not our differences. THAT's what this is all about. They are scared of people that are different and are VERY reluctant to embrace people with differing opinions. They want everyone to be like them.

Well, guess what? I don't want to be like you. And I don't think I should have to be like you. I should be allowed to be my own damn self, and so should everyone else. It's called individuality. And that's what makes America special. You just don't get it.

By the way, Anna Nicole is preggers. Fuck, how did that happen? Isn't she, like, over medicated?