McCain versus Minority 1 or Minority 2?

This NYR of blogging more has been a mixed bag. I am finding when work is like standing in a meat grinder while everything you care about is slowly minced to sad, little smears that my motivation in other areas plummets. But for you, dear reader/s, I will perservere.

First on the list- it is a beautiful day when it is likely the next leader of the USA will be a woman or a black man- not for the sake of that status, but that we've finally reached a stage where that's even feasible. As McCain gets nearer to his party's nomination, that likelihood mushrooms. I am loving it. I am curious, however, what the long term effects of bringing WJC in (finally) will be. It's the '2 for 1' tagline resurrected against the 'no more dynasties' camp. I have yet to hear Obama say anything that is exciting or promising to me- it all seems very hopeful, yet practiced, and without a whole lot of action planning.

Hopefully, we will have a clear frontrunner soon so we can get down to who will be the new puppetmaster ala Cheney. Conversely, if the primaries stay open, in the end more can jump in, and could have a last minute Gore sweep. Love the Hil, but if he was on the ticket, he would absolutely have my vote.

Secondly, it is the day of the social networking site star. We have Facebook making a quiet move to take over, I mean, neatly integrate into your every day world, which, being a frank fan I am not too frightened of. Then, finally realizing they are no longer the belle of the ball, MySpace is opening the door to developers for apps ( Lord knows, it can't be a detriment with all the bugginess and horrible rendering already implicit in the MySpace experience) at the same time people are leaving in mass numbers. I am considering following suit- I only keep my account for a select few ties now (having successfully converted friends over to Facebook, as I myself was brought in). One of my friends just closed their account because of the deletion of a very large atheist online group (and being an atheist, figures he just isn't welcome), but my motivations are hardly as integrity-driven; I just want to be able to log into one site, use one Twitter-like update utility, and maybe feed someone to my vampire or race my tricked out car or field some hands of Texas Hold 'Em while I'm at it.

This last bit I am actually going to conduct along with you, so I apologize if the results end up being a bit...messy. I was informed by a close colleage that there is some sort of H. Ledger death scandal, along the lines of Michael Hutchence (which I still think was murder but that's because I 'readz the intarweb'). When I asked what it was, I was handily informed to google 'Heath Ledger death dildo'. Well, who can turn away an instruction like that? So now, safely at home and without HR issue, I will do just that and report the result.

Googling...

Oh.

Yep, it's a meme... (a really horribly, tasteless one)...and no coincidence the text is EXACT for every hit, all within the comments sections (fan sites, Digg, blah blah).

Bleh. Poor family.