I can train a monkey to wave an American flag.  That does not make the monkey patriotic.

--Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq

I have to give the utmost respect to anybody who has worked 30+ hours a week and at the same time taken more than one college class (grad or undergrad) a semester.  This is no small feat.  I was lucky enough to have parents who paid for my undergraduate education so that I didn't have to get a job and could "concentrate" solely on academics (ha ha).  Now that I have an undergraduate degree, I realized that it wasn't worth nearly the amount that my parents had paid for.  So, in order to get a job that I have at least some passing interest in (social science research... I know, I'm crazy), I figured it would be a good idea to get a Master's degree.  But this time, being a grown man and all, I figured I'd fit the bill.  So here I am, taking two classes, each meeting once a week for 3 hours.  I just work 5-6 hour days on days I have class and normal 8 hour days the rest of the week.  The problem is that work will quite often leave me lobotomized, so much so that I am usually drooling and incapable of rational thought during class, and I usually struggle to get my reading and assignments done.  I would be able to perform so much better if I could just focus on schoolwork.  The part I find ironic is that I need to work a crappy job in order to pay for school.  And I need to go to school in order to get out of this crappy job.  I remember way back in the day there used to be this thing called "free time", but I'm beginning to wonder if it was just a figment of my imagination.

"If you don't want to play the blame game, you're the one to blame."

--Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show"

"The wise learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

Thank you Fortune Cookie, that's really a good one, but where did these lottery numbers come from?

The poor get worked, the rich get richer/
The world gets worse, do you get the picture?/
The poor get dead, the rich get depressed/
The ugly get mad, the pretty get stressed/
The ugly get violent, the pretty get gone/
The old get stiffed, the young get stepped on/
Whoever told you that it was all good lied/
So throw your fists up if you not satisfied/

--J-Live "Satisfied?"

Black people loot, white people find?

My heart-felt sentiments and prayers are with everyone affected by Hurricane Katrina.  I'm really at a loss for words..

But, um, where the fuck is FEMA?!?  The last thing they're capable of is managing emergencies..

"FEMA might come through but they always show late"

--Living Legends "Forces of Nature"