"Last night I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad... angry babies everywhere." -- Stephen Wright

Sweet Betsy, the homework!
Yet somehow, it's not enough...

Still, I'm more than busy enough to not update. But I can spare observations on the world, I think, starting with American Football Day yesterday. ...right. I was still pretty steamed with my the sports media by the time The Game rolled around for showing a terrible, one-sided basketball game that had no business on network television instead of the blooming NHL All-Star Game, which will probably be Dominik Hasek's final and Nikolai Khabibulin's finest, to say nothing of the performance of guys like Alexei Zhamnov, Eric Daze, Vincent Damphousse, and Espen Knutsen (!). It was a crazy, crazy game, and I had to miss it because of a few rabid alumni. Bastards, all of them. Grr, my friends. Grr.
I thought I might watch the Celebrity All-Star game on E! (don't click that) instead, and I did for a while. Then I realized that the NHL Celebrity All-Star game wasn't actually about hockey, so I went for a walk in the park instead. There were some intriguing aspects to the game, however... Cuba Gooding, Jr. lost a fight with Rachel Blanchard, David E Kelley led his team to a marginal defeat, Alex Trebek came away with an assist, and Bobby Farrelly, who apparently held down the pipes while attending a certain university I dream of nightly, did a stellar job in goal. Intriguing.
On a related note, John Vanbiesbrouck is coming out of retirement. (What?) So it looks like Jean-Francois Damphousse is out of a job. (Who?) Apparently Larry Robinson had problems with veteran goalies or something, so when he was fired, b*z*r was back in. (Why?) Cases like this reassure me about life, in a way, because I know that no matter how crazy the drama in my life and the circles I frequent becomes, hockey drama is always worse.

But I digress. Oh, how I digress. The point is that when the Super Bowl came on, I found something else to do. Namely, I got a sandwich and watched my roommate put a TV tuner in his computer. As he was fiddling around with it, I saw a very familiar face flash by for a moment. Upon restoring power to the "real" TV, I discovered that Ralph Nader was indeed on C-SPAN hawking his latest book. I hadn't seen any trace of Nader since the 2000 elections, though they were very fresh on his mind. Indeed, he still seemed very bitter in the interview about the elections, pulling no punches as he attacked both candidates and the very electoral system itself with renewed intensity. He was also firing almost entirely from the cuff; perhaps he has no speech-writer in the political off-seasons. Interesting fact from the session: Green Party candidates won 25% of the seats they ran for in local (excluding state) elections in 2000. That's one in four. True, not many ran, but they were well-rewarded for it if Nader's figures were correct.

Hockey and politics. Politics and hockey. Homework. Such is my life right now, so I will end my ranting. Before I go, however, the random media of the update: the best picture ever. And it's real...