Under the weather...

Bah…sorry for the lack of rants and raves…work project deadlines and being sick make Mad Monkey an ineffective blogger. Some short quips:

First one goes to Arnold "The Governor" Schwarzenegger: Sending "Tookie" Williams to his death seems a tad hypocritical on multiple levels, but I guess to save your hide, you had to do what was politically correct, right?

Second one goes to "Dubya" Bush: You acknowledge that "more or less 30,000" Iraqi civilians have died, plus over 2,000 of our own troops, and you still want to stay this hellish course? You say that having Saddam ousted made the world a safer place…history would show otherwise. In the years preceding Saddam's outing, we didn't have a war-torn Baghdad. We didn't have suicide bombers in London and Bali. I'm not saying that Saddam was a good guy, but things have gotten worse since he left.

Third: Kudos to the residents of Capitol Manor in Northwest DC. It was a low-income housing complex, where the residents were being threatened by eviction due to soaring housing costs in that part of town. What did they do? They banded together and bought the building themselves. They maintain their place to live at an affordable price and benefit in the future from the rising housing values.

Fourth: Bengals…what was that? A win is a win, yes, but that was flat out disgusting (save for the performance by the O-line and Rudi Johnson). Please do better against the Lions. For the record, It's a tell-tale sign that a team is now good when you start complaining about the wins too ;-p.

Fifth: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a good movie. Not great, but pretty good. It does have some awe-inspiring moments, but some aspects of the book were really hampered, which shouldn't have been, in my opinion. Rita Skeeter needed more screentime. She's integral to a lot of what Harry goes through in the book…in the movie, she's in for two scenes and is gone. Regardless, not bad. Has a lot more emotional weight, but I think Prisoner of Azkaban is still better, but just barely.

More later…at some point in time...