so i hope i am wrong, but i think we may have witnessed the beginning of the end of the u.s. as the only superpower in the world. i think this war is sort of the straw that breaks the camel's back that turns world opinion wholly against us. other countries have already hated us, and now most of europe is against us, which is never good. just because we are powerful and rich it doesn't mean we will always be rich and powerful, and we can't just enforce that on the world, militarily or economically. one of the main reasons that england declined and is no longer a world power is that they spread themselves too thin and thought that because they were rich and powerful that they could, and then they started getting thrown out of and voluntarily left huge areas of the world, like india, the u.s., and the middle east, where they used to be dominant, and then one day just decided to leave because it was too difficult to keep control. and while we don't rule areas militarily, we sort of do economically, and we cannot stand against the whole world as we are. and using another historical example, when spain was an imperial power, they assumed that they'd always be rich and have a supply of gold and silver from their colonies, and then they started to face independence movements and got less gold and silver, and thus they are now just another dinky country. granted i am rambling, and we have a lot more natural resources than spain, but i think it's a similar situation, we seem to think that our economy will always be strong, and it won't be if we just assume it will. assuming that we'll be powerful while at the same time being antagonistic and arrogant to the whole world and ignoring the united nations just will not work out in the end, i think. and again, i hope i am wrong. now i am going to go eat french fries and french toast and see if there are any busty girls in american flag bikinis in maxim.

so i think that everyone should download the song "get a haircut and get a real job" (at least I think that's what it's called) by george thorogood and the destroyers. because i was sitting at work today thinking of the things i needed to do today, and those came to mind. plus that is a good song. i went to a rockies game once in denver and they played it at the stadium when john kruk came up to bat for the phillies. that was funny.

so what's up with "word to your mom"? it doesn't make any sense to me. word means "i agree," like "right on" or something, but what's with the to your mom part? should you go and tell that person's mom that you agree? does that mean it is more correct than if you had not said "to your mother"? no one says "correct to your mother." what about word to your dad or uncle? are they untrustworthy? how weird.

also, this is better http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta.html

so this is probably the funniest whatever the fuck this is that i've ever seen:

go here now, honestly

it's from a porn site apparently, but it's the best one i could find. and it doesn't show any porn so don't worry.

after checking that out, you can go here for what I think is information about that. it could all be nonsense though.

so i was goofing around online today and got this link from somewhere. it's a dialect survey done by harvard, you put where you from and answer how you say certain words (like whether you say coke, like normal people do, or you say pop or soda like weirdos). then it maps it all. pretty cool stuff. check it out:

dialect survey

so today i got a 5-cent raise. i think i am going to go buy a car now.

so there's this guy at work who sneezes really really loud, it's bizarre. it's like he's shouting "AAAHH CHOOOO" as loud as he can. I work down the hall and around the corner, and even with the door closed, i can still hear him. i suggest he get that looked at. i'm surprised he doesn't have permanent laryngitis or hasn't sneezed his vocal cords out. craziness.

so i am bored at work. check out this weird, semi-official looking essay i found supposedly written by some military officers and such on defending the planet from asteroids. i wonder if it was written before or after "armageddon" and that other one.

http://www.pbnnews.freeservers.com/

so i like cake

so i watched the state of the union last night. i learned in middle school that you don't pronounce "nuclear" as "new-kew-lur". it's ridiculous, this is the president and he's mispronouncing an extremely important word, one of the main points of his scheme to invade iraq. come on. i guess he's trying to be more like the average person, but mispronouncing a word, even if everybody else does it, is about the worst way to go about it. it's not as if only the really intellectual, effete and snooty people pronounce it correctly or something, and that by pronouncing it right he is alienating people. we know you're dumb, george. you don't need to prove it to us. so cut out the homer simpson impression and go back to the dictionary.