Ron Paul isn’t Rudy Gulliani or Mitt Romney, which - although both good things in my view - keeps him out of the limelight in most of the coverage of the race for the Republican nomination for the 2008 presidential election. I’m no fan of Republicans in general (especially the Neo-Con breed that seems so hell-bent on robbing the nation of its civil liberties), but Ron Paul is at least interesting. He’s more like a libertarian in Republican clothing (which some would argue is what Republicans were supposed to be).
Anyway, he’s got fair amount of grass-roots support, and he’s been keeping himself on the fringes of the Republican primary radar.
Now, a bunch of those grass-roots supporters have organized this fund raising drive, with pretty astonishing results so far. The stated goal was $10 million for the day, and I definitely doubt they will get close to that. They have however crossed the $2 million mark as I type this.
Awesome.
To be clear: I am in no way endorsing Ron Paul. I don’t agree with several of his more passionate stances. I only think he’s the most interesting thing going right now as far as politics goes. Did you hear Obama was on SNL? And Hillary might have a really hot girlfriend? See what I mean? Wait… That last one could actually be pretty cool, if it’s enough to make Hillary go away. 
May I humbly recommend that you point your web browsing application on over to Saul William’s new album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, which was produced by Trent Reznor (Mister Nine Inch Nails to you) and is available as either a free download in 192Kbps MP3 format or a $5 download that lets you pick between the 192, 320Kbps MP3, or lossless FLAC formats.
Now, if you ask me, $5 is just about the perfect price for an audio experience such as this. That’s pretty much what I paid for the new Radiohead thing, too. It’s even more pleasant when I know the money actually going to the artist.
And not only do you get to feel good about “sticking it to the man” by circumventing the record companies, you’ll also get what I consider a rather enjoyable album. (Added bonus: Somehow the MP3s have lyrics/blurbs that show up on the iPod. This is magic to me.)
Oh, HELL no!
Are you frick-a-frackin’ kidding me?! One month monkeys are going all Hitchcock’s The Birds on a deputy mayor in Delhi, the next we find out some baby-momma is leaving her not-even-a-month-old child in the knit-picking hands of an obvious Simianista recruiting operative while she does “chores”?
This cannot stand, your honor! I OBJECT!
This video makes me shake my fists at the sky…
So after successfully waiting for the release of Leopard (the latest version of OS X), I ran out the other day and plopped down my rewards-earning MasterCard to purchase a 24″ glass and brushed aluminum sculpture known as the iMac. It’s the 2.8GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM, and the 500GB hard drive, and it’s the tits. I even dig on Apple’s new waffer thin keyboard, somewhat to my surprise.
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