Random thoughts while wondering what ever happened to Julian Javier:

The Bears pounded the Niners yesterday.  Duh.  And, anyone that thinks Brian Urlacher is over rated is ether an idiot or a Packer fan (of course, those aren’t mutually exclusive.)

Once again the liberals in our schools think they know what’s best for the children.  How come in my day we didn’t have a problem with obesity and we ate a whole lot more crap?  Because our parents made us play outside.  Because there weren’t 70 channels of cable to watch.  Because the PC hadn’t been invented yet and if we wanted to chat, we’d get on our bikes and go over to someone’s house.

For God sake, let kids be kids and parents kick them out of the house once in a while.  The notion that “it’s okay, they are quiet” is no longer acceptable.

Looks like NBC is getting out its ax to chop down “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.”  Even though it’s supposedly do to ratings, the fact is NBC is severely cutting back on the number of scripted shows it is running in order to save money.  You can imagine what an ensemble cast like Studio 60’s must cost. 

Morgan Quitno Press has compiled a list of the country’s most dangerous cities.  Congratulations to St. Louis for winning the big prize.  It’s odd to think that Birmingham, AL is more dangerous than Gary, IN but apparently, it’s true.  I mean, polls are accurate, aren’t they?

In Britain, there is talk that within ten years citizens could be implanted with microchips, similar to the one your pet might have that tracks their movements and contains personal information about them.  This opens up a whole can of worms for human rights and the right to privacy.  Certainly, there are people in this country that would like to see that happen here as well (actually, it is already with mentally ill patients.)

Can you imagine the advances in the divorce lawyer industry if your log was admissible in court?  Or your boss could figure out you were taking more than an hour for lunch. Can you imagine the kinds of things the government could do if they had access to logs and printouts on you?  How about marketers?  Isn’t spam bad enough?

I am not opposed to this being done for registered sex offenders and former felons as knowing where they are is actually a good thing.  Also, radio sales people should have them implanted so we could prove once and for all that they are in a bar at 2pm on Friday (and you boys know who you are.) But for your average, tax paying, normal, American, I have a big problem with it.

Finally, in Germany, the “Love Witch” has been exposed as a fraud.  A German woman successfully sued and won against a woman that cast a spell to help the woman get her boyfriend back. 

Apparently, the woman wanting the spell should have gone to the true love witch who could have cast a spell to help make her look better to her boyfriend: Jenny Craig.