* If you really want an iPhone 4 and you have an iPhone already, your best bet is to use the new Apple Store app and upgrade direct from the phone. That worked for me in under 5 minutes, including the time to download and install the app.
* The former Big-XII is rapidly turning into a joke conference. Basically, it’s Texas-Chokelahoma-A&M trying to get all the money they can (they are literally getting all of the severance money from the Colorado-Nebraska departures at the expense of the other 7 schools). Basically it’s going to be the new WAC – a vanity conference of negligible strength for its one capable member school (i.e. Texas).
* Boise State to the Mountain West is a step up for both, and something that should have happened years ago.
* California voters are just paste-eating stupid. Prop 14 will give the state the same jungle primary that Louisiana is abandoning – all candidates run in one big primary, and the top two go to the general election. Get ready for the 2003 recall gangbang EVERY YEAR – the system disembowels political parties in favor of giving all power to those with the most name recognition and the money to get it. Meg Whitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Huffington – lather, rinse, repeat. Idiots.
* Nothing makes me laugh harder than people trying to take the partisanship out of politics. What next? Taking the alcohol out of whiskey? Partisanship is why we HAVE politics, you morons. It’s how we resolve large-scale disagreements in society without resorting to firearms. The alternative to politics is not some big hand-holding circle of consensus where we all sing Kumbaya and do the right thing for all and sundry. The alternative to politics is fucking Somalia.
* Speaking of paste-eating stupid, nobody with two brain cells to rub together should listen to a single word the Republicans have to say until they purge themselves of their Confederate sickness. I can get along just fine with actual conservatism. Populist redneckery is not worthy of serious consideration.
* The reason I really hate crackers isn’t because they’re terrified of anything different. It’s because they’re terrified of the very concept of difference. The Confederate sickness stems from fear and outrage that anybody or anything might be unlike them in any way, and I have eighteen days of dragging a real live fossilized Wallace-ite like a ball and chain through Europe to prove it. I am not kidding when I say we should get Sherman’s descendants on the phone and see about getting an estimate.
* I was up 24 hours yesterday. I have had a shit-ton of caffeine. I am about one more cup of coffee from turning directly into Captain Jack Sparrow.