CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Monday, May 30, 2011

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THE GOOD

The death of Osama Bin Laden I’ll admit to cynicism when I first heard the news. Michelle woke me up and said “They finally got Osama Bin Laden. He’s dead.” And maybe it’s just because I was being woken up, but my initial reaction was “Wow. They killed one fifty year old man who was basically immobile ten years after they started looking for him. Go America.” But after I woke up a bit I realized, no, it really is a big deal, and there was definitely a sense of relief when I realized the ramifications. Yes, it’s been too long coming, and yes, way, way, way too many people have died in the interim, but it is a big deal.

Obama shows his birth certificate No, he shouldn’t have had to. That he did just days before making the call to kill Osama Bin Laden is fucking smooth, I don’t care who you are, especially when you consider that between these two acts of smoothness, he killed at the White House Correspondence dinner, roasting the shit out of Trump. When he does shit like this it makes it a little easier to say “Yes, I like Obama”.

Training my daughter to ride a bike This past Christmas I put together my daughter's bike and set out to teach her how to ride it-- yes, this was months ago, but I haven’t exactly written a Polarity in months. I was initially puzzled as to exactly how I was going to do this. I never learned how to ride a bike with training wheels, and I had no recollection of how exactly I ever learned to ride it. To my surprise, teaching Celest was surprisingly easy, and I was walking beside her, hands free, while she awkwardly tried to keep a straight line within 10 minutes, and within a half hour I was able to stand in one place as she rode up and down the block. It was an amazingly satisfying moment, and it almost seemed like the first time I was actually a dad, rather than a parent.

Katy Perry on the cover of Vanity Fair I’ve mentioned Katy Perry on this page before. And I am not a fan of her music. But I swear to God, every time I see a picture of her, despite myself, I stop and admire her... physically for a second. I can’t help it. Katy Perry is an attractive human being.

Werewolf in a Women’s Prison Trailer You really, really have to see this. For the first 30 seconds, it looks like any sort of “Women’s Prison” porno movie. Then for the next 45 seconds, it looks like any sort of porno/horror film you might see by some shitty porn studio that specializes in porn films with “action” and “sci-fi”, and “horror”. And then the trailer goes fucking apeshit nuts. I’m not saying this movie will be good, even for a chuckle. What I’m saying is, holy shit, this trailer is awesome.


THE BAD

The Weird Jubilant Reaction people had to Osama Bin Laden’s death As much as I was dismayed at seeing people using Bin Laden’s death as an excuse to party-- the way you would St. Patrick’s Day or after the Superbowl-- I was equally reassured by how many people thought this reaction was icky and wrong. The thing is, I’m not Christian, so I’m not looking at this from a Christian point of view. Osama Bin Laden was a very bad man, and I’m not with some liberals who say he should have been brought to justice-- it doesn’t bother me that there wasn’t a trial, just as I don’t think there would have been a trial for Hitler (even though there were trials for the higher up Nazis, and there should be trials for all the other terrorists we’ve caught). Maybe it should bother me, but it doesn’t. And like I said above, I felt relief at his death, and while I feel bad for criticizing anyone’s genuine reaction to good news (although I wonder if it is in fact a genuine reaction, and not just an excuse), partying hardy over an enemy’s death feels more like a bloodlust. And then there’s the fact that Christians do consider this a Christian nation, and they are, in fact, the majority. They should be ashamed of themselves.

The fake conservative outrage over Obama’s refusal to release the photos of Bin Laden’s body First of all, if I thought the partying was icky, people getting upset that Obama didn’t release the photos is even ickier. Seriously, people, if you absolutely must see the crumpled body of an old man with his eye blown out but don’t deny that he is dead and aren’t some sort of conspiracy idiot, then you’re just a sick fuck. Seriously. Getting that weird Faces Of Death curiosity jolly isn’t going to bring anybody that died in 9/11 back. Secondly, I also think it’s exactly what George Bush would’ve done-- and George Bush had no tact. Still, he went out of his way to show respect so Islam, quoting the Qur'an during speeches and referring to the prophet Muhammad as “blessed”, trying to show the Middle Eastern people that we are not at war with Islam (despite all the other evidence to the contrary). I have no belief that this torturing, war-mongering monster/idiot wouldn’t at least have done the world the favor of recruiting even more people to Al Qaeda by disrespecting Islamic tradition, and would have handled his death exactly the way Obama did. So shut the fuck up, conservatives.

The Japanese Earthquake/ Nuclear Meltdown It’s impossible to overstate exactly how horrible this has been and how terrified I am for Japan, but it’s also been well over two months since this happened, and everything that can be said has been said. My heart goes out to everyone in the country, but especially in Fukushima. A person asked me how I thought the US would react to the exact same thing happening in America, and I said that it would probably end up the exact same way, only that we would learn the exact wrong lesson. Unfortunately, we still have these nuclear reactors all over the country, and apparently they are regulated even less vigorously, so it feels a bit like a ticking time clock before this happens here.

Donald Trump Although Trump has said that he’s not running for president (and has since come back and said that he’s not ruling it out-- ugh), what amazes me about this man is that he thinks that America likes him. Yes, there was a bizarro point in time where he was leading the GOP in polls, but that says more about the rest of the Republican nominees than it does him. Up until he started flirting with a presidential run this time, I always assumed Donald Trump looked at himself as a sort of villain, which he seemed to relish in, which is fine. But to actually put himself as some sort of figurehead that the rest of us will follow isn’t not only hysterical, it is frightening.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelity It’s not that I am really all that surprised. It’s been rumored that Arnold’s a pig for years and years. Still, with every detail that comes out about his love child, even though Arnold never went on and on about family values like most other politicians, it depresses me more and more.
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