Blogstream has opened my eyes and expanded my horizons. Every time I visit I'm forever a little more changed by heavier mental scarring and the world's skewed perspective of me.

It has become an unbreakable law that whenever I am reading Blogstream at my office or any other public setting I must click on the most outrageous blog post/picture of the day just as someone is standing or walking past my monitor.

The first time this happened was with Fisk's anthropomorphic nude and sexually explicit cow. One cannot explain away looking at "furry p0rn" to the overtly religious man that sits to your left.

The second time this happened will be spread out of the course of several weeks - namely every time Adam changed his blog background.

And today it happened again when I visited Seven's blog.

The end result is that while Blogstream has given me wonderful friends, it has also branded me at work as an insatiable sexually deprived sociopathic beastialic freak of nature.

Now that I think about it...this might be why less and less people say "good morning" to me in the hall.

Gingrich finally publicly admitted that at the same time he was denouncing President Clinton for his Lewinsky extravaganza, he was also participating in an extramarital affair.

...But, he stresses this wasn't hypocritical of him. After all, he hadn't committed perjury in front of a judge. This upright member of our respected government merely felt it was his duty to uphold the law.



And, thus, the man that resigned in 1998 amid charges of tax-exempt funding by the House is now a potential Republican presidential candidate.



Even more worrisome is that he's still being received with open arms by voting Republicans.

Yeah, sure. A man with a repeated, proven, and admitted history of such dishonesty would surely make a wonderful presidential candidate. Let me put my vote behind this one. What a winner!

My dream of an open, accepting, peaceful society is surely at hand! I have to go and release some joyful and brightly colored helium balloons in celebration. What's one more gas in the atmosphere? And once they deflate, I'm sure the balloons will make a nice accessory and statement on the native landscape of some developing country being exploited by large corporations, ravished with disease and rampant with a war that, if not in place now, will surely erupt once something valuable is discovered beneath the topsoil.

Maladroit News Presents:

After gnashing my teeth at all of the rampant negativity that surrounds our media, I scoured the web on a rabid search for "positive news". I didn't write any of the articles listed below, but I figured that in a world of negativity, a few happy endings were in need of further publicity.

From the website: News of the Weird

Ms. Pan Alying, a schoolteacher in China's Shandong province, had her purse snatched in January (containing her mobile phone, bank cards and cash) and decided to try pleading with the thief by sending text messages to her stolen phone. According to Xinhua news agency, she patiently sent 21 sympathetic notes to the man, with no answer, but the day after the last one, she found a package at her door containing her purse and all its contents intact, with a note, "I'm sorry. ... I'll correct my ways and be an upright person." [Reuters, 1-22-07]

From the website: Good News Now
Two Oil Giants Plunge Into the Wind Business
By John Donnelly, Globe Staff

Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative-energy field.

The oil companies bring enormous cash reserves, years of experience in large projects, and a can-do spirit to an alternative-fuels industry that has largely been driven by speculators, small developers, and utilities. Though environmentalists largely praise the interests of the two oil giants, they harbor suspicions of whether the energy giants are adding renewable sources to their portfolios as a way to enhance their reputations with consumers rather than to combat global warming.

And for a bit of the weird and esoteric...

From the website: Dave's Daily

Man Tells Wis. Police He's a Werewolf

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) -- A former inmate told police that he was a werewolf and could change shapes after he was arrested for breaking into a woman's apartment. Robert Marsh, 39, appeared Friday in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court on charges of criminal trespassing, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.

A woman called police about 3 a.m. Thursday and said Marsh broke through the deadbolt on her door and grabbed her. Two men in the home stopped him, a criminal complaint said.

The woman said she had been letting Marsh stay with her since his release from prison several days earlier because he was homeless, the complaint said.

Marsh had been drinking heavily and claimed to be a werewolf and involved in a witch religion, the woman told police. When police arrested Marsh, he told them he was a werewolf who could change forms, the complaint said.

Marsh had a small amount of marijuana on him when he was arrested, the complaint said.

Marsh was scheduled for a court hearing on March 14. Cash bail was set at $5,000.

A newspaper in England ran a competition asking for a rhyme with the most romantic first line and the least romantic second line. Here are some of the entries they received.



My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe "go to hell".

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,
the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

Oh, loving beauty, you float with grace
If only you could hide your face.

Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.

I want to feel your sweet embrace
But don't take that paper bag off of your face.

I love your smile, your face, and your eyes -
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!

I see your face when I am dreaming,
That's why I always wake up screaming.

My love, you take my breath away
What have you stepped in to smell this way?

And a contribution by the Streams own HeatherScot!

Your sexy body to love making beckons
Just wish that it lasted more than 10 seconds.

Over the course of the past three years, I have been trying to make it a point to travel outside of my little "mini-me world" sphere. Last year, I went to Costa Rica. For those of you that have read my blog since the beginning, you know how that trip went. Though, honestly, it was one shockingly wonderful experience all in all.

The year before that I went to Mexico and I had a blast. Though, unfortunately, I was only there for a couple of days.

This year, come October, I'm flying out to Munich, Germany. I'm going to visit a friend from highschool. We've kept in touch for years and she is usually the one to fly down and visit me. I've finally managed to save up enough to do the same.

Dance with me, Streamers! This bug is finally leaving the continent for the first time. Though, I am nervous as it's going to be my first solo flight.

Don't jinx. Don't jinx. Don't jinx. Puh-lease, let this one go off without a hitch.