Paresh’s Blog

so, i have become the newest victim of comment spamming. its pretty much like e-mail spam, but its left in the comments on blogs (which of course end up getting e-mailed to the blogger). after tediously deleting every single spam comment (about 80 spread across every single entry) and banning the IP address, i’ve decided to modify my comments policy.

comments will now only be open for those entries on the main page. i have MT set to display the last 14 days’ worth of entries so that should be plenty. once an entry is pushed off the main page, the comments on that entry will be closed. if you are mucking around the archives, you will still be able to see the comments posted for past entries but you will not be able to add new ones. if by chance you want to leave a comment for a past entry, feel free to post it on one of the entries on the main page.

this may be a pain the arse for some of you, and lord knows its been a pain in the arse for me, but this is the best way i could think of to deal with it. if anyone has any better ideas, feel free to enlighten me.

haha, god bless the onion:

if the picture doesn’t come up, here’s the link: http://www.theonion.com/4003/infograph.html

its been a while since i updated, and the dry spell was going to continue at least one more night, that is until i saw this:

that’s right, the godfather of soul, james brown. i could have sworn i saw him on COPS the other night. i mean, not to sound like an asshole, but he looks like a guy that just finished beating up his wife. i don’t think i’ve ever seen him without his perm. but here is looking all scruffy in his bathrobe with his ‘fro untamed. he’s really giving nick nolte and glen campbell a run for their money. and in keeping with theme from the first celebrity mugshot entry, i would say that james brown is a get-drunk-and-not-remember-that-he’s-drunk kinda drunk.

so after watching the state of the union address tonight, i’ve decided to voluntarily deport myself to canada. as much as canada annoys me, i’d much rather be up there then stuck down here with bush. i mean, really, i don’t even know where to begin with this guy. i could speak at great length on just about everything he talked about but here are a few highlights and quick rebuttals:

-grandstanding about the “fantastic” job we’ve done in iraq: i guess he forgot that our soldiers are being bombed on an almost daily basis and the almost daily demonstrations demanding we leave
-the new constitution in afghanistan: which no one in afghanistan actually likes
-america is so high and mighty that we will never seek international approval before we go off starting wars: i wonder if this is why 95% of the world hates us
-how bad north korea and iran are for pursuing nuclear programs: we not only have ongoing nuclear programs, but bush has made the world nuclear climate worse by pursuing a missile defense system and by pulling out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty
-america is not driven by dream of empire: i’m sorry, but doesn’t bush basically want to own the moon and mars?
-social security/medicare reform: he had nothing but good suggestions for making already ailing systems worse. the medicare plan he is praising himself for is just a drop in the bucket and his social security plan would just drive the final nail into social security’s coffin by making it go completely bankrupt.
-anti-drug programs: he wants to limit increases in discretionary spending to 4% a year but also want to spend $23 million to pee test high schoolers. does anyone else not quite see how this works out?
-gay marriage: wow, i don’t think he fully comprehends the stupidity of dropping his “sanctity of marriage” bullshit. he had the balls to blast the judiciary for being too lax on the issue of gay marriage. then he threatens to pursue a constitutional amendment if the judiciary doesn’t ease up. i know he’s a moron, but has no one in his administration ever heard of separation of powers or the first amendment? what he doesn’t understand is that even if he somehow got the 3/4 votes out of each house of congress and 3/4 of the states to ratify it, it would be the very same courts he hates that would strike down the amendment as unconstitutional. at the very least such an amendment, since it is based on the christian notion that marriage is only between a man and a woman, would be tantamount to the establishment of religion and a violation of the first amendment.

oh man, there was so much more. he said a lot more in the foreign relations arena and i don’t have the energy right now point out the stupidity in all his comments on the economy and his stupid tax refunds, but you get the idea. i think the most telling sign of the debacle was that besides his entrance and exit, only half the room (the republican half) gave bush standing ovations, ted kennedy was even visibly shaking his head at just about every comment bush made. this is unprecedented. normally a certain amount of respect is afforded to the president by everyone in attendance, even those from the other party. bush clearly struck all the wrong chords and i think its going to come back to haunt him in november.

so yeah, i know this was kinda long but i had to get all that poli sci out of my system.

i can’t believe i keep forgetting to make an entry about this, but i’m sure everyone has heard about the infamous gandhi joke hillary clinton told a couple weeks ago (here’s a refresher for those of you that haven’t). well conan o’brien has not let this grievous affront to the Mahatma go unanswered. all last week conan was letting gandhi offer rebuttals. here are a few choice highlights (verbatim, more or less):

“oh yes mrs. clinton, gandhi works in a gas station, but my gas station is a lot like mrs. clinton’s sex life…self service only!!”

Part of conan’s in the year 2000 bit: la bamba does his “in the year 2000″ falsetto and instead of switching to conan, the shot switches to gandhi with a flashlight on his face: “in the year 2000 gandhi will contract mad cow disease…from getting mad at that cow hillary!!”

“yes yes, gandhi works in a gas station, but you know filling up mrs. clinton’s gas while she sits in the car is a lot like her sex life…all the pumping is going on behind her back!! haha, TGIF!! That Gandhi Is Funny!!”

there was another one that slips my mind right now, but i do remember that after he finishes the joke gandhi grabs a rope and swings himself through a giant poster of hillary’s face and yells “in your face hillary!!”

i’m sure i should be offended by a white guy with a really good tan playing the Mahatma and cracking one liners, and if this were under any other circumstance i would, but let’s be serious, its damn funny.