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Farrah Dawn White Rest in peace.

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I wish I had written this myself, I can only quote it: Dear anti-Mayer Mob. Please read the article: http://www.playboy.com/articles/john-mayer-playboy-interview/index.html?page=2 ---------------------------------------- Since I know many of you won't bother reading all of what he actually said before condemning him, I've tried to make it easier for you by pasting an excerpt from his Mein Kampf, er I mean his interview. Please explain to me the overt, blatant, horrible racism in (the very clumsy and un-clever) things he is trying to say. Maybe I'm just an old clueless dude, but to me, it is very clear that he is trying to make a social commentary/point out of his ill-advised use of the "N-word". What is his point? That it is silly for someone to tell him he has a "hood pass" (Ed. note - I am presuming that means he has full acceptance in the black community, I'm too old to have any idea really what "hood pass" means). Why does he think the ...

Tom Tancredo ironically calls the English language "the glue that holds together this country." Excuse me? The glue that holds this country together is law, specifically, the United States Constitution. Look it up, teabaggers. Where in the Constitution does it say that English is the national language? Glenn Beck also has some interesting ideas regarding illegal immigrants: take their DNA. Perhaps instead of re-reading the 2nd Amendment over and over, you should focus on the 4th Amendment. Glenn Beck, Tom Tancredo, Lou Dobbs, Ann Coulter and even I are illegal settlers. That our laws permit this is irrelevant; if Native Americans came to Europe to usurp the lands on which the English, Dutch, French, Portugese, Spanish and Italians called home, not only would this have been (rightly) labelled an egregious wrong, but a great long and bloody war would surely have resulted. They didn't cross the border, the border crossed them.

I'll chalk it up as a coincidence that I got laid off after taunting my nemesis to "get me fired". What I did with my 5-figure severance is the subject of another post, possibly on another blog altogether. Some of it is NC-17. I took a job promising working from home, and have since spent 4 of the last 5 weeks in an area north of Hollywood, working for another huge company (as a subcontractor), for a big pharmaceutical company who laid off most of their workers and is now regretting outsourcing their IT. Folks.. you need to keep your IT in house. The outsourced contract people don't give a fuck about much more than meeting the goals set forth in the contract. In house IT people care, in part because they know if they fuck up bad enough then their checks will stop coming because there is no more company. Contractors just move on to the next victim. The last company I worked for bought the cool company I thought I was getting hired at. The bought the cool company, drove...

Okay, here's the thing. On the one hand, you have all these chuckleheads trying to talk about Miranda rights and terrorism, talking smack about the FBI(*) and wanting these suspects whisked away and taken to Jack fucking Bauer for some heavy BDSM(**). The on the other hand, you have "The First 48". Are you trying to tell me that a bunch of Law and Order rethuglicans don't know that every day city po-lice be getting confessions out of dumb-fuck suspects who ARE ALREADY MIRANDIZED. Something like 90% conviction rate or better. Republicans are so full of shit. (*) The FBI had the intel on 9/11, the data on some of the suspects and could have potentially stopped it. The CIA has a 60+ year record of failure after failure. Yet, 'thuglicans want to take suspects into CIA custody? Hells no! (**) BDSM. Is anyone shocked that the right wing is fascinated by this?

The best gift I am likely to have ever received in the history of forever was the recent re-released double-LP 20th anniversary edition of Nirvana "Bleach". Like just about everyone I know, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the first Nirvana song I had ever heard back in 1991. The record store was sold out of copies of "Nevermind", so I settled for the other record by the band that was available at the time, "Bleach". By the time I brought it home and listened to it on repeat ten times I discovered that my sneaky little sister had managed to get a copy of "Nevermind" on cassette. We listened to that until the tape wore out, but I grew to realize that "Bleach" was ultimately the better of the two albums. By 1992 me and everyone I knew were in full blown Nirvana craze. It wasn't until much later in my life that I began to realize the profound impact the album made on my life. It led, first and foremost, to buying more Nirvana al...