Friday Night Random 10 Ipod songs

1) My Lover's Gone -- Dido
2) Firestarter -- Prodigy
3) All Star -- Smashmouth
4) Devil's Haircut -- Beck
5) Ride Wit Me -- Nelly
6) Hey Mama -- Black Eyed Peas
7) U Can't Touch This -- MC Hammer
8) Amish Paradise -- Weird Al
9) Will 2K -- Will Smith
10) I'm Like A Bird -- Nelly Furtado

Interesting mix of good (Dido, Beck, Weird Al), strange (Prodigy, Will Smith, Nelly), and just plain bad (Hammer? Really?)

Steve's Movies Reviews (2 for 1)

Just came back from seeing two movies (and dinner) with some friends. We saw "V for Venetta" and "Inside Man" tonight. Here's my quickie reviews of both.

"Inside Man" is a very entertaining heist movie. We are given a little bit more to know than the characters in the film but we are still kept in the dark about what the plan is until the end. I'm not certain why portions of the plan need to involve as many people as it did. My guess is that it was there to distract the characters and us.

"V" is a bit bigger than an entertaining story (which it is). It tries to make a statement. That statement is in one of the promos: "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of its people." I enjoyed it (although I thought the amount of Bullet Time at the end was over-doing it).

Also, Amy said it best after the movie ended. If you see parallels to the Bush administration in this movie, that is your fears clouding your judgement rather than what the movie is really saying. It is a self-contained story with many different influences. Get over yourself.

Amazing Juggling Finale

This juggling show is simply amazing! It is just incredible! Just go and watch it, now!

Friday Night Random 10 iPod songs

1) Scar Tissue -- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
2) Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -- Mariah Carey
3) Let Me Ride -- Dr. Dre
4) Blue Monday -- Orgy
5) Already Met You -- Superfine
6) Gettin' Jiggy Wit It -- Will Smith
7) Hey Momma -- Black Eyed Peas
8) Play -- J.Lo
9) Have Yourself a Merry Christmas -- Tori Amos
10) I Knew I Loved You -- Savage Garden

Wow, was that a lot of pop songs. The only non-pop songs were Superfine's and the Christmas ones.

Where Steve talks about something he barely understands...

South Dakota has just passed an abortion ban in all cases (including rape or incest) until the mother's life (not health) is in danger. This means many things to me.

First, if I ever get another girlfriend, we are never going to South Dakota where the state thinks they own her uterus. (Unless she has a reason she wishes to go since I don't like confrontation :)

Second, it appears that fathers who rape their daughters have more rights than their abused child. Sounds like good Christian values to me.

Third, only the doctors performing the abortion was punished by up to 5 years in jail. Why aren't the mothers being punished as well? If I hire a hitman to kill someone and he succeeds, I would go to jail just like the hitman if we are caught. Why are anti-choice persons not punishing the mothers?

Forth, if life starts at conception like many anti-choicers claim, why don't we investigate the nearly 60% of naturally occurring miscarriages to confirm that really were naturally occurring?

Fifth, since abortion is now illegal in South Dakota, does the state have the right to test any women trying to leave the state to determine if they are pregnant and prevent them from leaving in case they get an abortion in another state? (I hate run on sentences like that.)

Sixth, if you support the rape/incest exception, when does it go into effect? When a women claims she was raped or when we have a conviction? If the former, fine. If the later, then you don't really support the exception since most cases would not complete before the mother gives birth.

Finally, all the clinics helping women become pregnant, are they now illegal since they kill more embryos than just about anyone else?

Does anyone have the answers to my questions above?