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el presidente has been royally peeving me lately (since he started talking about something other than foreign policy.) I really wished he’d knock off his Regan complex and stop spending my money on bureaucratically moderated viagra. On a political level, I think he needs to realize the philosophical support he gets on foreign policy comes from the people like me. People who actually believe in the principles he uses as justification, and we don’t like it when politics get in the way. We view our possessions as we view our lives; try to take either of them away and we get pissed.

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Insomnia 3: Demise of the Dreams

I had it beaten for the better part of the spring semester, and through nearly all of June, but it has come back. For those of you who don’t already know, I was diagnosed with moderate insomnia last summer, apparently my prefrontal and frontal lobes don’t always act in sync when it comes to sleep patterns. So every once in a while, if left alone, they will have a neurotic fight of some sorts and my sleep patterns get thrown out of whack for a week or so. There are drugs for this but I don’t like taking them because they make me feel like I’m listening to life from a slightly staticy radio station, which isn’t much better. So I’m going to try to fight this with shear will power.

Luck be a lady tonight!

Yes I’m listed, no big deal. But check out who’s sitting at number 65 on the top players list right now.

(Here’s a hint=it’s me)

UPDATE: Now that it’s July, the calculations have rolled over and I’m no longer listed, too bad so sad.

well it seems like everbody likes the new design…so it’s time to change it. Not like a complete makeover, but It’s still not exactly what I want. The color scheme pleases me enough, but I don’t really like the side or title bars. Nor am I really pleased with the extended entry/comment pages, so be prepared for some minor changes.

I’m going to try and use CSS to spruce it up, and to eventrually become W3C verified, but thats aways off. So any of you with CSS or compliancey experience should feel free to lend a hand and/or advice.

Taking a cue from Bill Simmons, I bring you my own NBA draft diary. If you know nothing about NBA, this may be boring, but for those of you with some semblance of knowledge of professional basketball enjoy.
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One of the greatest novelties of modern democracy died yesterday at 100, and it’s really too bad. He was a democrat when democrats were libertarians, and a republican when labels didn’t matter anymore.

Welcome to the moved and improved version of “that other guy’s thoughts” Now located on it’s very own top level domain. So behold and observe thatotherguy.net in all it’s wonderous glory! After a few technicial hold-ups courtesty of Blogger, Movable Type, and my own personal ineptitude, you now have a new hand-coded spectacle for your view pleasure.

So enjoy!

Cross another name off the list, Dick Gephardt, after he spewed this verbal filth at a shing-ding put on by our best good friend Jesse Jackson.

“When I’m president, we’ll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day”

I’m only a 19-year old college student, but I can read, and I’ve read the constitution. And I’m confident that executive orders can’t overrule supreme court decisions, it’s the other way around. I would expect a lawyer like Gephardt too know this, and since he obviously doesn’t, I don’t trust him to “…preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” (from the inaugural address)

But hey, that’s just me, and I like my presidents capable of duty.

who can guess what I’m dealing with right now?

The COD has come to haunt my soul…or at least make my job harder.

Something just occured to me. Are there any professional athletes with naturally red hair? By all accounts, roughly 4-5% of the population of the US are natural red-heads.
The are approximately 4750 professional athletes in the major sports today (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB) of these, approximately 1820 are white (105 in the NBA, 450 in MLB, 525 in the NFL, 740 in NHL), and I don’t know a single one that has red hair. I’ve got a theory on this, but I’m not going to state it yet. Does anyone know of any? If you do please let me know. And I’m excluding the scottish national soccer team, so don’t even go there.