10 Things to Think About on a Friday

Well, it hasn't been the best of weeks with some of the news I've gotten...a search for a new roommate and a new job continue simultaneously. Fun stuff. But we did get the new Zion I album this week, I got tidied up, and all will be forgotten tomorrow when I go on an all day drinking trip. But, in the good news category, it was an absolutely fantastic week for items for the 10 things to think about. So enjoy!

1) Back when we were younger (think 7 years old here), I told a relative that guys were better than girls because guys could pee standing up. She told me that girls could to, to which I said, "Prove it." Well, after standing up on the toilet seat and having pee run down her leg and all over the floor, she admitted that maybe standing up wasn't quite possible. Until now. For those nasty bathrooms or times when you need to win a bar bet, ladies, I present to you "Girl on the Go."

2) Lot of talk about Phelps. I think it's fantastic that the most celebrated Olympian of all time smokes. "Oh you mean smokers aren't all dumb ass Cheech and Chong types?" Surprise!!! While I'm not big on Kellogg's trying to eliminate his sponsorship, I don't have quite the same strong sentiments that Joe Rogan has in this rant against the idiocy of the war on pot...Alcohol is also more likely to cause injury requiring hospitalization? You don't say...

3) Jimi Hendrix wanted people to feel the purple haze all in their eyes...but he most certainly didn't mean Purple Haze Vodka.

4) The man who made us all cheer as he threw his shoes at Bush has finally been allowed to speak about the incident. He makes some great points. Of course, this made me laugh because of the whole fact that they now have a song in Iraq called "throw the shoe at the vampire."

5) We're always talking about "going green." Here are some Buddhist monks who have created entire temples out of recycled beer bottles. But what about something really green that goes beyond recycling? Like replacing all the streets in Japan with grass.

6) Leave it to a Republican politician to take what someone says, rearrange the words and entirely distort the message of the original speaker. Just not often that it's Sarah Palin doing it to her own kid. In other sexual news, what about the idea that through early detection and readily available antiretroviral drugs, we could eliminate HIV using only the medical tools we already have?

7) Good food news!!! Ever wonder why Coke in the bottle from Mexico tastes so much better than canned coke? It's because it uses pure cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Looks like for a limited time, we're going to get Mountain Dew and Pepsi served the same way. But you need something to eat while partaking in these tasty beverages, don't you? How about a Pizza Burger: a giant burger with two large meat pizzas as buns with bacon, colby and pepper jack cheese?!

8) In the ongoing witch hunt of Barry Bonds, it looks like the prosecution has just suffered another major setback...they're not going to allow positive test results and a "doping calendar" into the testimony because his trainer won't testify. How many years and hundreds of thousands if not millions of tax payer money was wasted on this? And they won't even get a guilty verdict? Find some real criminals people!

9) Anyone who read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand should know that nationalizing institutions is a great way to kill the country. So why are we looking at nationalizing Citi and BofA? Of course, I also question why a strong Swedish car maker like Saab would sell to GM in the first place, and now be in danger of closing because GM's business practices are about as solid as quicksand.

10) In a way I'd like to try getting drunk, you can now shotgun blast shots of booze into your mouth. Shot war anyone?

That's it from this end...have a great weekend!