Random Thoughts:

For the vicious, unscrupulous, man-eating media gossip machine (People, InTouch, Us Weekly etc.), the Tiger Woods scandal was the best thing that’s happened to them all year. Human suffering is their lifeblood.

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Lil Wayne said, “Music is another form of journalism, another form of news.” If music is indeed journalism, then I respect it as a form of journalism more than 24-hour news channels (all of them). At least musicians make no pretensions of unbias.

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What is most poisonous about the American dream is not that it is a materialistic dream, but that it is a dream of self-fullfilment.

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After watching a brutal documentary on the United States’ policy on torture, I was dismayed considering that pro-life groups were silent (and remain silent) about the issue.

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A few weeks ago I attended a ceremony for a collegiate honors society. I realized that it is more or less the exact same thing as high school honors night, with a little more pretension and a few Greek letters for a logo.

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Ten years ago, we were worried that computers would cause the downfall of industrialized society (Y2K). Now the culprit is different and the stakes are bigger; it’s carbon-churning cars that are the enemy and it’s the planet itself that’s going to collapse. Who knows what our big fear will be in 2019.

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I have concluded that there are two Christmases: a commercial one and a religious one. Churches run the religious one and they mark it with advent rituals and Christmas Eve ceremonies. Wal-Mart runs the commercial Christmas, and they mark it with TV & print ads with “Holiday Special” tacked onto their ad campaigns.

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Rolling Stone calls the iPod the invention of the decade, with a humorous commentary: “It was thin, white, seductive, prone to breaking down every six months – yet we obsessed over it from the first glance. No not you, Tara Reid!”

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In the entertainment world, this decade had its ups and downs. On the upside, we had the aforementioned iPod as well as The Lord of the Rings movies. On the downside, we had Ashlee Simpson, screamo bands, and the Transformers movies.

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Seen on the shirt of a Christian t-shirt: “Evolution: a sudden change in a system of beliefs.”