Oh Goddamnit

Feministe has a story about the hilarious outdated "Carousel of Progress" at Disney World.

Woo-hoo, yes, let's complain about the sexist nature of the ride and the unrepentant way that even the future imagines minorities and women as nonexistent and secondary, respectively. La la la feminism ra ra ra. Whatever.

Know what makes me actually mad? I now have the *&#^%&*^%!! song from that goddamned ride stuck in my head. ::sings:: "It's a great, big, beautiful tomorroooowww..."

Kill me.

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Another book-reading-walking incident: some lady handing out religious paraphernalia got close enough into my periphery to drag me away from my reading...so she could offer me something to read. Yeah, thanks. I wasn't really enjoying the book that I had my nose in. Nope.

As if getting that song stuck in my head wasn't bad enough...

Is today really the day to just piss me off left and right? Must be a Thursday...

Item the first that pisses me off: the reportage in this NYT article about the skin cell-to-stem cell process

( If you want to send a monkey with only limited mastery of typing skills to do your science reporting for you, couldn't you send ME? )

Look, there are good things here, I don't deny it. Discovering that only four genes could initiate a phenotypic switch from skin to stem cell is major news. This could teach us so much about pleuropotency, you have no idea. But I don't enjoy the blanket encouragement that passes for reporting in The New York Times' "Science" section. Because all it did was jump up and down and screech about how this might solve the stem cell problem and devoted half the article to that and a few paragraphs to the real drawbacks and hurdles this technique creates as a potential therapeutic avenue. If you're going to report on science, report on the goddamn science. Save the ethical questions for that guy. The one with the column. You know the one I mean.

Oh, and pissy thing #2: Paris Hilton is already out of jail.

Supposedly, TMZ says, this length of stay--5 days--is normal for people with her conviction. I'd like to see some stats on that, personally. I wonder if that applies to people sentenced to 45 days or to the 23 days she was eventually given--would she have had to stay a full week, say, if she'd kept the 45-day sentence?

The police, of course, stress that she's not "out"--she's just been "reassigned" to house arrest. While I approve of keeping Paris Hilton on a permanent lo-jack thing (and equipping the rest of humanity with trackers so that we might avoid her for all time), who are you kidding? House arrest? Where she could, easily, grab more drugs and drinks and keep herself medicated (since she was apparently released "for medical reasons"--i.e. sobriety)? Right. Justice. Let's hope she has to like do thirty billion hours of community service or something. Oh, that's right, she does that just by "bringing joy into our mundane lives" with her ugly-ass, skank-bitch face.

That's not very feminist of me, perhaps, but I'd as soon apply the skank label to any guy who rose to fame for being rich and having sex on camera. A lack of reporting on that front shows the bias of the media, methinks. Whatever. Women don't want Paris in our clubhouse any way.

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SCARIEST MUG SHOT EVER.

Something I found linked off that Paris Hilton article. Do not look directly into his eyes or he will eat your soul.

How evil should I be?

Ordered myself the new version of Fantastic Four (whee! free ticket for the sequel!) through Best Buy online and I have an in-store pickup. The e-mail comes to me with the following at the bottom:

Low price guarantee:
If your product is available at a lower price online or in the store at the time of pickup, your credit card and/or Gift Card will automatically be adjusted to reflect the lowest price available.

Question: do I bother seeing if they count sales on the DVD with this promotion? Because, with the sale, DeepDiscount's copy would be something like $1cheaper. I don't know that I feel like being a dick over one dollar, but I never get to fuck with people for these things and I think they know that most people won't, which is why they're so willing to toss that sucker on there.

So, how evil do I feel like being?