 More final version of dita's BMEjapan sticker; I've managed to convert it into a two screen print so it won't cost too much! |
So this morning I went into Belleville to Walmart to get diapers. I don't think I've been in Walmart or any big store like that for years — what a strange place the Earth will be when Walmart rules the world… I mean, it's already the largest employer in something like 1/3 of all US states and its market share keeps growing. Because of its universal nature, it really does have the potential to become one of the dominant forces in the world… Seriously, what happens when Walmart's profit is triple that of the US government?
Anyway, I went to Starbucks on the way out of town. On the way in I got complimented by a guy with his kids on my This Bank Can Blow Me attire… told me with what he'd been through, he needed one too. I was surprised that Starbucks was open though. The rest of the mall was totally shut still, so the Starbucks booth was just surrounded by a giant cage of bars and glass. Being in a deserted mall inside that little box with life in it is an odd feeling.
“This is kind of like a Starbucks in a prison”, I said to the dude making my mocha.
In one of the most tired and depressed voices I've heard in a long time, in a slow drawl he said to me,
“it feels like that all the time to me.”
I would like to mention two quick news stories. First, the CIA has said that 11 months before Bush and Blair claimed that Iraq was purchasing nuclear materials (which later were revealed to be claims built on obviously forged evidence) they informed the White House of this. That is, the CIA is stating that Bush et al knowingly used forged evidence to start a war (more). Come on, if you can threaten to impeach a guy over a blowjob, doesn't killing a pile of people and stealing enormous amounts of taxpayer money count for anything?
Stealing money from the taxpayers? I'm not just talking about the direct war money flowing into the hands of the defense contractors who were some of the primary sponsors of the Bush campaign. I'm also talking about it flowing straight into the hands of Cock Cheney to the tune of at least $1 million a year from Halliburton, who just doubled the size of their bill for the Iraq cleanup effort to $185 million (more).
Does it worry anyone that America is being run by some of the richest men in all of history, and that while the economy goes downhill, and the American people get poorer and poorer that their assets continue to skyrocket?
PS. Science news is hot? I mean, I don't know if it quite falls into the two chicks at the same time category, but it's in that universe. I'm sure it will inspire dirty jokes at MIT parties for some time.
