Check out this article on FoxNews.com. (Link is at the bottom of this blog)

If you're too busy to read it, I'll sum up for you: In Connecticut: Dirty old man (48) somehow verbally convinces dumbass 20-some year old to do a striptease to pass a driving test.

#1: OK. Yes, it's wrong. Yes, the guy should have the book thrown at him. I think they should also dig into his life to see if "Next time" it could be worse, (rape) and psychologically evaluate him to see if he needs to be classified as a sexual predator.

#2: The article says: "the woman reluctantly took off some of her clothing, but refused to take off all of it" So, she 'sorta' felt it was wrong, but 'kinda' went along with it. the article also says: "She had failed the driving test several times previously"

Now ladies, back me up on this: how do you "Reluctantly" take off your clothes? you either do, or you don't. ESPECIALLY in this situation. He's offering a service, for a service. that's the bottom line. She took part in it, and got her end of the bargain for his; She got the license that had been eluding her "several times previously" So if you look at it in black and white, He gave her the terms, (And unless she's a complete dumbass, understands that this is not common DMV Practice) she understood what would happen and did it anyway: If you strip, you get a license. I'm sure he didn't hold her at gunpoint, or point his red pen at her menacingly. I'm POSITIVE he used a soothing tone, was trying to be her buddy to slime his way into seeing a little skin.

Lo and behold, she did it and got a license. Afterwards it sounds like she either was embarrassed, or someone noticed she had no business having a license or whatever, either way she had "buyer's remorse" and decided to involve the police. AGAIN: YES it's wrong, YES he should be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, BUT, by agreeing to do it, EVEN A LITTLE BIT is she not guilty as well? Don't get me wrong I'm not saying she's JUST AS guilty as he is, but to an extremely lesser degree; she has a license that was obtained illegally. I'm not saying she should be charged with anything unless she feels she is entitled to keep it. THEN she should be charged.

If she was a bastion of the community or had strong moral convictions, wouldn't she:
A. Refuse to do it, get out of the car and immediately report the bastard?
B. If she wasn't as extreme; Say "No" and request a different tester?
C. Say "no thanks" but take the test with the guy anyway and most likely fail again?

Don't go Femi-nazi on me and say that I'm sexist or that I belittle her. She had at least a little time to think about it and rationalized it as: "hey, I'll get my license" Which she indeed got! She stripped, AT LEAST took her picture (in which I'm sure she's smiling and doesn't look distraught at all) and either waited for them to process it and walked out, or counted on them mailing it to her when it was processed. (which could be why she had buyer's remorse; He got to see her right away, and she has to wait for her license? NO SIR! that's just not right!)

I'm curious to see who thinks I'm completely off on this one. Is she not a dumbass who was eager to get her license? The article doesn't say if she got her license then and there or had to wait for it in the mail. If she had to wait for it, then the question becomes; When did she report it? While she was waiting? or after she got it? If she got it then and there, she had to wait for the picture AND for them to process it which anyone will tell you is NOT a quick thing at the DMV. PLENTY of time for her moral alerts to go off. The article clearly states that she did get her license.

Let me know what you think!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241459,00.html

I recently went to commencement exercises at CSU and the head of the school I was going to watch graduate (SOE or something) said "Welcome to commencement exercises for winter two thousand and six"
I INSTANTLY cringed and could not pay attention to anything else he said.

Rewind about 15 years. A young Alchemist not yet FullMetal sits in English class watching a classmate get berated while the teacher explains to him how to properly write years, and even numbers. He stupidly argues that to say the year 1992 properly you say: "nineteen hundred and ninety two" The Teacher along with a majority of the class (and myself ) attempts to tell him that if you literally take what he just said, it would look like "1900.92" We get the math teacher to come in and without explaining the argument, ask her to write the numerical translation of "eighteen hundred and ninety six" (so that she didn't suspect, but also so we could get an honest answer)
She proceeded to write "1800.96" she explained that "and" could be a representative of almost any symbol but is commonly a decimal depending on the context. I decided not to bite my tongue any longer and told the goon "Sit down idiot, that's stuff you should have learned in 7th grade math!" I promptly got detention for 2 days for my outburst, but it was worth it. (Because he was on the football team and thought he was tough shit. turns out he only smells like it.)

Fast forward back to present day CSU. Since seventh grade remedial math, I've never been able to accept anyone pronouncing years or numbers with an "and" in them. Think about it. When you're going to give a check to me for $980.34 how do you write it? "Nine-hundred and eighty and 34/100" NO YOU WOULDN'T! (Nine-hundred eighty and 34/100 by the way)
This guy is the head of an entire department at CSU. He wore the robes of a scholar with the colors denoting his superiority over everyone else in the room. Are you telling me, he doesn't have access to English professors, or even Math professors to make sure he's pronouncing the year correctly? 2000.6 huh? That’s sheer genius.

I read somewhere that Alex Trebec (the host of Jeopardy) has a habit of pronouncing the years in answers: "eighteen hundred and ninety two" instead of "eighteen ninety two" or "eighteen hundred ninety two" So then stupid people would say; "how come Alex Trebec can get away with it?" the answer is HE DOESN'T I'm positive he gets told over and over again what it should be, but you know what? it's television anyway and most television execs probably don't know the difference. Besides, Alex only reads the questions, for all we know he could have the IQ of a dinosaur. you only need half a brain to read the damn categories and answers. It’s his voice and presence that make him who he is, not his brain. (no matter how uppity he reads the correct question when all 3 people get it wrong)

CHAPTER 1:

No TNT, you don't. . .

I know I've mentioned before about this ONE lady that sits in my area that has no end of drama in her life. I gotta vent. I just HAVE to!
So I'm busily working away yesterday, updating spreadsheets and other documents making some great time and kicking some major ass. It's nice and quiet as everyone else is also working, or gone on holliday. Suddenly, Drama mamma's phone rings and of course she makes no attempt at being discreet, starts talking to who I can only assume are her kids and suddenly bursts into tears! I'm not talking about the quiet sobbing that you can only hear their breathing, I'm talking full-on sobbing and moaning between throat hitches that sound EXTREMELY annoying. The kind of crying that you can tell what she sounds like when she whines (which is another reason I'm not suprised she's getting yet another divorce) instead of attempting to be discreet, she just sits there and continues to sob. I shit you not, there is a bathroom 50 paces from where she sits. It, like the rest of my department (she's not in my department by the way) are on the opposite side of the building away from virtually ALL foot traffic so she's almost guaranteed privacy if she would simply walk 50 paces! (it's also one of those new bathrooms that has a "foyer" for lack of a better description, (man trap? privacy screen? Wind trap? Air lock? I don't know.) there's a door to the outside, and then a middle "room" and then another door to the actual bathroom. I'm sure this is to cut down on renegade odors, but it also helps to make it VERY private)

CHAPTER 2: BACK PEDAL
Once again, I should mention that I have never once talked to this lady. If I ever have, it's business related and THATS IT! Because she's such a Drama Queen however, I get to hear all about her life and I know more than anyone should have to about her and her kids from 3 different daddies. *(I'm positive at least 2 of them are bastards)

CHAPTER 3: GOOD GOD
So the sobbing was because her neighbor was clearing out everyone's driveway with his snowblower and didn't do her driveway. Apparently everyone in the neighborhood was also out shoveling so the guy was able to ask every one of them if they wanted some help. She wasn't home.
My eye twitched involuntarily both just now and when I had no choice but to overhear the story. How Fricken STUPID! With the sue happy people coming into Colorado, not mentioning the ones that are already here, Why would ANYONE risk doing ANYTHING to ANYONE else's property without their permission?

CHAPTER 4: KILL ME
So I find out today that she not only complained about it to everyone within earshot at work, but she seriously went to the guy's door to ask why he didn't clear her driveway with his snowblower. The guy's responses were A: YOU WEREN'T HOME PSYCHO BITCH! and B: I WAS STARTING TO RUN OUT OF GAS.
She retorts by saying: "I have gas in my garage" (see response A: if you're not feeling the urge to slap this lady back to last tuesday)

PROLOGUE:
This lady has way too much self inflicted drama. I have to stop sometimes and scream in my head "ARE YOU F**KING SERIOUS!?" It's unreal, I'm always hoping that some guys with cameras are going to pop out of the walls and tell me "SUPRISE" she's not really that stupid!" it would also explain the idiots who think she's "Cute" I'm shocked that she hasn't killed herself yet. she's always depressed about piddly shit and apparently cries at the drop of a hat.

StarWars, Episodes 1-3, I HAVE to. . .I just HAVE TO:

Lucas ruined episodes 4-6. Think about it, don't just be blindly loyal just because you're fanatical about star wars. if you watch these movies in sequential order, you wind up knowing that Luke and Leia are brother and sister before you're supposed to (it was a bigger shocker and a tender moment when you realize this in 'Return of the Jedi,' thanks to episode 3, it ruins this moment. and makes that part when Leia kisses Luke kind of gross in 'The Empire Strikes Back') besides, it also makes Luke's question to Leia about "HER" mother completely worthless ("do you remember your mother?") What's also ruined is Darth Vader (In so many ways!) when you see Darth Vader for the first time in 'A New Hope,' it's the classic villian introduction, Now, because you see him in 'Revenge of the Sith' it RUINS that scene. I was Hoping beyond all reason that Lucas would have done something to make it SEEM like Anakin and Vader were two different people and continue with the fisade that Vader killed Anakin until 'The Empire Strikes Back.' now, it's no shock, and there's no wonder to what Vader looks like under the mask. That whole scene when Anakin becomes Vader is EXTREMELY Akward and is too corny to believe. Lucas killed Anakin with episodes 1-3. I always imagined Anakin as this awesome uncompromising Jedi who was GRADUALLY seduced by the dark side. Not a whiney teenager who barely realizes his potential, is way too emotional, who suddenly 'switched' in less time it takes to read this review! All based on a dream that his Jedi training (If he was some awesome/powerful Jedi) should have told him that may or may not have been true (and could wind up being a self-fulfilling prophecy)

Nice hair a-hole!

Episodes 1-3 dumb down Darth Vader to a spoiled brat used to getting his way. How dare Lucas shatter the image of Vader as being an intelligent, powerful, and cold villian. I think it's embarrasing that the audience is almost FORCED to feel more intrest and wonder to the side stories rather than the main story they're supposed to be paying attention to! IE: what happens to Obi Wan, Yoda, and Bail Organa. I stayed till the end to see what happens to them and wound up not caring too much about Anakin and Palpatine. (because I already knew!)

Now you can re-experience the dumbest\most akward scene in Episode 3 with this latest playset!

If these movies were going to be made, he should have made them 7-9 so that the technology and story would have been something fresh and new, or here's an idea: introduce a completely different story arc that happens to take place in the Star Wars universe. maybe he should have looked at the millions of books that were written about Star Wars and adapted some of them to film. (because seriously, if you read ANY of them, the stories there are WAY better and extremely more imaginitive than what ultimately became episodes 1-3) To all the fan-boys out there who disagree with me on principle alone, open your mind. I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and consider 4-6 three of the best sci-fi movies ever made. I got rid of my first collection of the "special edition" trilogy and picked up the new ones that feature the ORIGINAL films on SEPRATE DVD's, (the "un-stupified trilogy" I call it) I can't imagine ever touching the special editions ever again. Don't be so blind and say "well the effects were good for 1-3" At this point, there should be no "bad" effects, and effects are an excuse not to be imaginitive. Use effects to enhance a story like in "once upon a time in mexico" (see the documentary on the DVD and you'll see what I mean) not to tell the entire story.

Did you like Momento? Did you like Batman Begins? Then go see "The Prestige." it's the same director. I'm not even going to review it. Don't read any reviews on it. Go see it and come up with your own opinion. It's worth the price of admission! It's worth the not knowing anything going into it! Is it THAT good? YES! IT! IS!

I kid you not, there was a group of 4 or 6, 60-70 year olds in the theatre I saw it in and a couple of them actually clapped at the end. RARE wouldn't cover it. Just trust me on this one, it's a DAMN good movie.

You know the previews you saw for it?

CRAP. . .Utter crap. the previews don't do it justice. it doesn't cover it. Nothing covers how good this is. Period. Why are you still reading this? GO SEE IT NOW! and PAY ATTENTION!

Ah well, here's the lyrics to the song they play during the end credits;

Analyse - Thom Yorke
A self-fulfilling prophecy of endless possibility
You roll in reams across the street
In algebra, in algebra

The fences that you cannot climb
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for

It gets you down
It gets you down

There's no spark
No light in the dark

It gets you down
It gets you down
You traveled far
What have you found
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyse
To think things through
To make sense

Like cows in the city, they never looked so pretty
By power carts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies

It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part

You're playing a part
Playing a part
And there's no time
There's no time
To analyse
Analyse
Analyse