Allergies are new. I seem to be sneezy for no clear reason, so I guess I'll have to start debugging myself and see if I'm eating something that's causing my sinuses to detonate explosively.

Needless to say, sinus explosion has made me rather irascible, even beyond my typical surly nature.

I saw a brief CNN story last night about how violence and sex have increased on TV since the ratings system was put in. Yes, and? It's called "getting viewers". People like sex and violence, they always have, they always will, at least until the liberals get funding for their Orbital Mind Control Lasers. But I guess we'll see more of our citizenry being protected from themselves. Like the Australians (national motto: "Rights? We don' need no steenkin' rights."), whose recent censorship initiative brings hope to us all, in that if it fails as miserably as it ought to, it'll be something to point to and say "Nyah, this stuff don't work, dumbass" when the next round of it is tried here. Plus, fewer Australians in the internet economy means more jobs for Americans, and as a red-blooded American patriot, the thought of other countries struggling vigorously to implode their internet economies (most of which are heavily driven by Our Friend, The Pornographer) fills me with flag-waving pride, much like any given demonstration of the French military tends to inspire increased confidence in the American war machine because, hey, at least we aren't THAT wacky.

And the UN has apparently indited Milosevic, who I'm sure is filled with bowel-liquifying terror at such an awe-inspiring display of whining.

And what more can I say to that?

The Morning Weather: Cool and foggy.

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