And now... Random Thoughts

• Megatron is back for Transformers 2. Pics are here - He looks much better than the weird-flying-jet-monster-thing from the first one and I'm sure his toy will be much easier to transform this time around.
• According to this article, conservative people are startled easier. I would have thought this trait was for the liberals.
• The inventor of the smilie has been announced. Thanks inventor dude for allowing my lame friends to send me text messages that take hours to decrypt, only to find out that they were just simply confused.
• In Italy, you are not allowed to speak out against the Pope. It's punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Yo, Sinead O'Conner, never travel to Italy.
• We all like to think "the terrorists" didn't make a difference to the American way of life, but in my opinion they have done more damage to my pocketbook and my freedoms then any president a thousand times over or is it just pres. Bush who threw the constitution in toilet?
• Some teenager suggested to a fellow student to finish all homework on Sunday nights. Umm...teenager-lady...college is much different than high school. For one, every class has about 6 hours of homework a week. So let's do the math, if I have 3 classes times 6 hours, that's 18 hours of homework...all on a Sunday night? Neat.
• I feel violated. The other night I was watching Conan O'brien begin his show and my local news cut in and said, "Conan is doing a joke about trains colliding and NBC doesn't want to show it because of the recent train collision." -- then the news talked about the new design for the penny(!) and went back to Conan. I mean, c'mon, can I please make a decision for myself. Puhhlease! It's tragic I know, it pains me to read stories about the wreck, but to censor the issue reminds me of what Elvis went through when his gyrating bottom half was not filmed. I have the choice to turn off the TV set if I thought the joke was going to far, right? I coulda hit mute or walked outta the room, yes? It wasn't a blind-side-tit-flash which I wouldn't be ready for... I mean he did set up the joke, and then blam-o, my crazy-eyed local news team "saved" me from the horror show.

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