A strange sight to behold

I went to an Earth, Wind, and Fire concert tonight with my family. While the music was absolutely fantastic - I had never heard their music before, but I'm a true believer after two hours of a soul-shaking set nearly brought the house down at Radio City Music Hall - there was one person there I didn't expect to see: Bill O'Reilly. Yes, the bloviating talk show host from Fox News was taking it in and seemingly enjoying himself. Was he reliving his younger days secretly? I do wonder what his reaction was (or what his audience's would have been) to the band's lead singer when he talked about "all of you who were conceived to our music", or something to that effect.

Nevertheless, I shook his hand (even though I despise him as a human being) and jokingly noted that I had no idea he was a fan. It's still a bit hard to believe.

The new Facebook sucks

There's really no other way to put it. Yes, having tabbed browsing is the 'in' thing ever since Firefox introduced it on a wider scale, but it simply doesn't work for Facebook. The whole point - at least when I first joined, way back when in 2004 - was that it would be a compact page where you could easily access people's profiles. I understand that some people's profiles may be so massive so as to require tabs (namely those who can't help themselves and add every last application), but it just screws up the easy-to-view nature of the website. I already switched back to the old interface and have no intention of returning to the new one unless they foist it upon all users.

Selling yourself well

Walking back from the gym yesterday, I saw two signs posted outside of an apartment building. One said "Man with Van", presumably hawking himself for moving services. The other was "Cleaning by Russian woman", or something to that effect. Oddly enough, almost all the phone number stubs were pulled off for that one. What does being Russian have to do with cleaning? Fascinating...

On another note, a lot of shops in the area have signs with this flyer in them. It's mildly hilarious, but these signs have apparently been around New York City, particularly Manhattan, for several years now.

Wasting everyone's time

I've been paying less attention to politics since work began, but the latest dust-up in the campaign seems to be over Barack Obama's comments about not looking like "all those other presidents on the dollar bills"...which is true and isn't a racist statement at all. However, John McCain, his campaign, and the rest of the sinking craphole that is the Republican Party decided to throw a hissy fit over the comments, with McCain's campaign manager saying that Obama was playing the race card "from the bottom of the deck."

Just shut up, Rick Davis, Lindsey Graham, and the rest of you idiotic, babbling fools. It's an insult to everyone's intelligence to waste time on something that is a non-issue. Of course, the GOP knows all about using racial tactics to secure votes - the main reason why it was able to flip the South into a solidly Republican voting bloc at the national level - and this is merely another perpetuation of the strategy. I guess it's hard to try and win on the issues when polling on what counts - the issues - shows the GOP to be desperately out of touch with the electorate.

It will be nice when these tools are relegated to a long-suffering minority standing nationally after November.