Square Root Day!

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Today is Square Root Day! 3/3/09. Only happens nine times a century. Enjoy!

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I'm juggling enough different projects that I'm definitely in that "low-geared truck climbing a steep grade" place. The voices in my head love pointing out the sports cars zipping past, not bothering to remind me that they aren't carrying the same load.

Maybe.

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Only three more days until Watchmen. I've been waiting twenty-three years for this. 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I'm enjoying reading the most negative reviews--don't want to get my hopes up too high. Hell...I even enjoyed the limited motion animated series they put out on iTunes (although I only watched episodes 1-9. I want to forget as much as possible about the end.) And what I've heard about the changes at the end actually make more sense than Alan Moore's original idea. But the Squid sure was purty. I think it was the Watchmen that woke me up to what was actually possible in comic books. And I'm hoping I have a chance to write a graphic novel at some point in the near future.

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T and I are working on a script. Secret project, but let's just say it was inspired by the Obama Inauguration, and because of her familiarity with the Civil Rights movement, she has to write the first draft. Honest, that's the reason. Really.

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"24" is still my favorite show, and last night's 2-hour episode was killer. So this African general storms the White House. I sat back, thinking about the metaphorical, unconscious aspects of that image, and had to laugh.

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I wrote something longer about this, but decided against publishing it on el bloggo. The question was one of blacks voting Republican. I think that the only smart thing to do is assume that people vote their own self-interest. I see no reason that more minorities can't be recruited to the Right side of the spectrum, especially considering that almost every successful black person I know personally has MANY Right-leaning attitudes. What Republicans need to ask themselves is why more of them aren't--without the snarky implications that blacks have more tendency to vote by automatic programming than whites have. Historically, conditions that affect us, as blacks, often have more to do with our visual appearance than our education, finances, political leanings or whatever. So there is a tendency to react as a group...because things have affected us as a group. Just keep your eye on that ball, rather than trying to figure out how we're different. And...be as eager as Liberals to jump on racist humor and ideology. Do those two things, and I see no reason at all that Republicans can't appeal to more non-whites.

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Watched "Pineapple Express" the other day. Wow. Pot comedies have come a long way since Cheech 'n Chong. While it was totally aware that people smoke their lives away, it also was quite the little celebration of hemp. I am SO happy that the Obama administration is ending Federal raids on pot co-operatives. That's just nuttiness.

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Cracked me up that Micheal Phelps was more criticized for smoking pot, in someone's home, than he was for DUI. I mean, he wouldn't have been pulled over and tested unless the police detected some erratic driving patterns. So here's a guy under diminished capacity, driving a multi-ton vehicle at speeds sufficient (in all probability) to create lethal impact...actually putting people's lives at stake...and THAT is less problematic than sitting in a party smoking pot. That strikes me as just insane. But I remember a heavy drinker who had an SUV, and laughed that if he got into an accident while driving drunk...he'd win. He'd win. Dear God, what in the hell kind of joke is that?

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I really think that a lot of the anti-pot sentiment is from alcoholics who project their own guilt onto others. I'm happy to think that this madness might end in my lifetime. How many billions of dollars and millions of lives have been damaged by the utterly misguided "War on Drugs"? Ugh.