STUFF.

I’m just amazed by this Girl Talk right now.  I heard some last year via Cory, but recently downloaded Girl Talk’s latest album Feed the Animals from GT’s MySpace page.  If you’re not familiar with Girl Talk, check out this track:

And if you don’t think that’s genius, try doing it yourself sometime. 

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Two movies to choose from this week: Burn After Reading and Righteous Kill.  Let’s see, which one should you see?  The New Coen Brothers film (Burn After Reading) or the latest example of just how far Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro have fallen (Righteous Kill)?  Go with the Coens.

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Go on over to Cory Graham’s blog and sample his live blog form last night.  It started off with the idea that it would provide witty takes on the Monday Night Football game, but quickly degenerated into… well, you can imagine.  Here’s a sample (we’re talking about an idea Cory once had for his Halloween costume):

9:41     corygraham:  There’s no excuse for you not having one of those Capital One cards with the image of your choice on the front.

9:42	corygraham:  You, Aaron, are probably the only person I know bold enough to use that to its full potential.

9:44	Aaron:  That would be good, but there’s just too much to choose from.

9:44	Aaron:  I really wouldn’t even know where to start.

9:44	corygraham:  I think you go for a picture of yourself as a traveling dildo salesman

9:44	Aaron:  Dude I just don’t understand why you never used that.

9:45	Aaron:  I laugh about it still.

9:45	Aaron:  Hey! Wanna buy a dildo?

9:45	corygraham:  Three words:   Dildos. Are. Expensive

9:46	corygraham:  And really, do you want to wear a coat full of used dildos?

9:46	Aaron:  It would be interesting.

9:46	corygraham:  … and smelly

9:46	Aaron:  You could carry on conversations by pointing to each one and saying who it belongs to.

9:46	Aaron:  That just seems awkward and brilliant.

9:47	Aaron:  Hey — this Vicky’s dildo.

9:47	Aaron:  These two are Rachel’s.

9:47	Aaron:  This one belongs to Tina.

9:47	corygraham:  ”Well, you see folks, each of these has a story.   I remember when I got this dildo, I had to pull it from a lady in the bottoms.   They said that the man that unleashed its power would be the King of 3rd Street.”

9:47	Aaron:  And here’s oneof Kevin’s —- wait! What’s that doing here?

9:48	Aaron:  He licks the shaft. He swallows the gravy.

9:48	corygraham:  Kevin is a dildo miser.   He doesn’t share.   He’s known in “certain” circles as Dildjoe Lieberman

9:49	Aaron:  I prefer Sarah Im-Palin’.

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HISTORY LESSON — So often, Republicans like to refer to themselves as “the Party of Lincoln” and refer to their great achievements of the past two hundred years, such as being the party that “ended slavery.”  This is true.  I will admit.  Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and he did, in fact, free the slaves.  As such, Republicans of today are correct in that a Republican was president of the United States when the slaves were freed during the Civil War period of the 1860’s. 

However, Republicans are not correct when they say they are the party of Lincoln.  Abraham Lincoln would be ashamed of the intolerant element that has seized control of his party.  Republican Abraham Lincoln might have freed the slaves, but two hundred years after that, Democrat Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and in response, Alabama showed their appreciation for those civil rights by voting against LBJ by a margin of 69 percent.    What do you think Honest Abe would have said to that?  And what do you really think Honest Abe would have said about today’s Republican party? 

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Uh-oh.  Get ready for Virginia to be the new Florida, come November: 

 

From InsideHigherEd.com:

 

Last week, Virginia’s Montgomery County, home to Virginia Tech, issued a press release regarding proper protocol for college students registering to vote. In interviews with Inside Higher Ed Tuesday, it was described by turns as “unsubstantiated,” “chilling,” and (more generously) as not “incredibly encouraging or friendly.”

It reads, in part: “The Code of Virginia states that a student must declare a legal residence in order to register. A legal residence can be either a student’s permanent address from home or their current college residence. By making Montgomery County your permanent residence, you have declared your independence from your parents and can no longer be claimed as a dependent on their income tax filings — check with your tax professional. If you have a scholarship attached to your former residence, you could lose this funding. And, if you change your registration to Montgomery County, Virginia Code requires you to change your driver’s license and car registration to your present address within 30 days.”

The county registrar of elections said Tuesday that the memo was intended to counteract the absence of cautionary information given to students signed up through the ubiquitous get-out-the-vote registration drives. Generally speaking, however, those interviewed for this article said the warnings are, at worst, farfetched and misleading, or, at best, overstated and not typically supported in reality.

And, in a year in which historic youth voter turnout is anticipated, and the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been propelled by college students’ support, this case in the battleground state of Virginia is “not an isolated incident,” said Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director for the Student Public Interest Research Group’s nonpartisan New Voters Project.

“For a county registrar to issue what really are in our experience unsubstantiated warnings for a particular demographic is alarming,” said Jahagirdar. “It’s upsetting that this is coming up in Virginia. But it’s even more upsetting that the ability of young people to vote is questioned in many other states too.”

She added: “In 25 years of registering young voters around the country, none of the staff has ever heard of a single incident where a student has lost their tax status or their scholarship because of where they’ve registered to vote.”

Meanwhile, Obama’s campaign, which has been registering voters on Virginia Tech’s campus, has called the information propagated by the county “erroneous.” The campaign’s Virginia spokesman, Kevin Griffis, cited an exemption in the U.S. tax code allowing dependents to live away from home while attending school.

And he said that while students should check with their individual health insurers, in the campaign’s calls to 10 top health insurance companies, none indicated that registering to vote at a college address would be grounds for dismissing students from coverage, “and in fact some of them laughed at us.” (In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Lynne High, a spokeswoman for the mammoth United Healthcare, echoed that students covered on their parents’ health insurance plans aren’t affected if they register to vote in another state.)

“We should be trying to engage as many people as possible in the political process, and have them take part in the civic life of their communities. In the case of students at Virginia Tech, their community is Blacksburg. That’s where they live; that’s where they call home. They should be able to vote there,” Griffis said. (The campaign of the Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, did not return a call to its Virginia state office Tuesday.)

 

~ by Aaron Saylor on September 9, 2008.