Random Thoughts: Back on the Brain Train

You know, some day, I will write an actual article. For now, join me in another journey through the mound of flesh called my brain. Don't go to the locked section. I mean it.

Kid Nation's done. So what did we learn about kids creating a society in the desert? Well, here's what I learned: Kids seem to vote like their parents do in big elections (popularity over actual achievement), picking the arcade was a bad idea, I'd be watching Pushing Daisies if this hadn't premiered first, and Taylor was annoying.

Awwww...Peter Jackson and New Line made up, and now he's a producer for The Hobbit. Lord of the Rings fans, you can put down your swords now. Keep them at your side, but put them down.

Christmas--or as other people call it, Tuesday the 25th--is coming closer. Our neighbors have put up their decorations. You know, flashing lights and stuff like stars and the occasional Santa scene complete with sleigh and reindeer. It's nice to get into the spirit, but it's a pain to put everything away. Do we really need all that to show we're celebrating Christmas? Being nice to people doesn't require that much clutter, and you don't have to put that away. Shame some of us don't exercise that option.

Speaking of the Christmas spirit, it'd be nice if we were good to people all year long. Why reserve your kindness for a month when it'd be great for everyday use?

Let's step into race for a moment. There are a good number of racists out there, but I'll focus on the ones who tend to join the group whose members wear white duncecaps. To those people, I ask this: If you're so superior, why do you sunburn so easily? Oh, and if you're so great and almighty, why did your ancestors have to import other people to do their work? Were your ancestors lazy? Were they wimps who couldn't do manual labor? Oh, and FYI, Jesus was a Jew.

Screw the yules, I want money.

This has been bothering me. We can come up with new ways to cook and prepare food. Yea, we got the Nu-Wave Oven, and dang it, why chop onions when you've got the Magic Bullet. Having trouble cutting through your vegetables. We got a handy dandy steel knife that can cut through anything. We got all that stuff, but why can't we eliminate or at least alleviate poverty? Sure, we can prepare food in a timely manner and even make it healthier, so how's that helping the starving people out there?

Anyone else annoyed when a product is claimed by its creator and paid shill to be absolutely necessary for the home, but isn't in stores and can only be ordered via the phone number given by the infomercial?

I do have a Christmas list, but I only shared it with one person. I doubt I'd get anything on it. I don't think anyone can afford that much anime and Yu-Gi-Oh! game stuff along with a flash drive.

You know what's a great Christmas gift? Money.

You know who'd win a nuclear war? The cockroaches.

It's amazing how we keep coming up with new ways to kill each other.

The following is proof that typos annoy me. It's a corrected version of an item from my last Random Thoughts (the correction is bolded): "To all you holier-than-thou people: You're sinners, too. Get over yourselves. You want to help save our souls? Talk to us face-to-face, not from the top of a ladder." There, much better, and I thought I'd repeat the point for the heck of it.

For those who haven't already, fear the power of the writers. Fear us!

To everyone who's been criticizing Congress for doing little: Pretty hard to do anything when some of them and the President keep mucking up stuff.

All right, Holidays to you all if I don't come up with a holiday edition. I'd say "happy," but that'd be too presumptuous.

From the desk of H.A. Senidal, 12/18/2007