Stupid countdown

OK, that f***ing Countdown site is just pissing me off now. I had like 50 hits, so I was expecting to be on the front page (in the top 20) today. But, lo, I suddenly have only 6 votes now, so I'm back to page 8 or some damned thing. Why bother with a site if the same 3 people win the "shirt of the month" design every month? Duh.

People are stupid

How in the world can you look at the events of the past two months (euphemistically referred to as the "9/11 events") and consider it an "opportunity for change" that we shouldn't "waste" by bombing bad guys? Right, we should stop considering the events as a case of "us vs. them" and go ahead and sing Kumbaya. After all, there's no way that Bin Laden and friends will bomb us again if we tell them we are all happy and global-minded now. Yep, that's fuckin' logical.

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Seriously, I actually read someone's journal that called the recent attacks "an opportunity for change" that we shouldn't be wasting by blowing up caves in Afghanistan. While I certainly wonder if the method for our "war" is effective, just telling them we've seen the errors of our ways sure won't work.