good news! the Chicago Sun-Times has decided that GWB is a 'one-termer.' *phew* now that that's been decided, lets just close everything up and wait out the next three and a half years.

"President Bush said Thursday he is having a hard time selling a missile defense plan to skeptical allies in Europe because he has only "vague notions" about what it would entail."

if he doesn't know, who does? shouldn't that be something that he's familiar with before he starts telling others to back it (or at least to shut up and get out of the way)?

suddenly hate the old template. gonna use this one for a while.

in an effort to make sure no one would ever want to date me, i thought i'd post my results from the Personality Disorder test linked to over at Little.Yellow.Different (for more info on what each of these mean, go here.):

Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Very High
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate

yep, i'm quite a catch, and if you're interested, go ahead and email me. (somehow, though, i think my scores wouldn't have been so high if the questions had been answerable with "Sometimes" in addition to "Yes" and "No." except for that paranoid one. that seems about right.)

From Sci Fi Wire:

Warburton talks The Tick.

a few Buffy stories: Marti Noxon, executive producer of Buffy, says the first three seasons may soon (and finally) be released on DVD here in the States, with lots of goody extras (i won't get my hopes up, but i'll be putting some money aside nonetheless). some of the Buffy spoilers online are planted fakes (um.. duh, but i thought i'd link it anyway), a little Joss-talk about Fray, and, in a little sidebar that i can't link to (SPOILER ALERT):

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans have been waiting for one plot development for nearly two years: resolution of the fate of witch Amy Madison, played by Elizabeth Anne Allen, who was turned into a rat in season three. This week, Buffy creator Joss Whedon revealed this spoiler to SCI FI Wire for the show's upcoming sixth season: "Amy will be de-ratted. She will be de-ratted, I promise."

'course, i've been told that Joss lies a lot when it comes to upcoming episodes.

did anyone watch "When Dinosaurs Roamed America" on the Discovery channel? i watched with my sister and nephews. i thought it was better than "Walking With Dinosaurs," but that may just be because i didn't already know the dinosaurs. there were so many parts in "Roamed" when it'd say or show something, and i'd ask my sister, "how could they possibly know that? there's no way to know that." then John Goodman would say, "Scientistis don't know that, but it's as good a guess as any." heh. my television is interactive.

actually, there was something natural to the way the show was put together. as the show went along, my sister would ask a question about something said or shown, and minutes later, the program would answer her question. since i don't really believe my television allows two-way communication with the Discovery channel, i'd say they did a really good job of anticipating the kinds of questions people would ask as they watched. that, or my apartment is bugged.

the one question my sister asked that they didn't answer so well was an explanation of geologic time. fortunately her elder brother had a long winded and probably too detailed answer for her. that paleontology course i took three times came in handy.

my favorite is the fruit template. who wouldn't want their blog to have an avocado on it?

George Bush says Winston Churchill was like a Texan. Great Britian breaks off diplomatic contact with U.S. over the insult.

The President added, "Sometimes Churchill will talk back, sometimes he won't, depending upon the stress of the moment..."

wow. most of the dead people i know don't talk back at all.

Fox has announced the fall premiere dates for it's genre shows. the only one of any import is The Tick, which will debut on November 1 at 8:30p.m. November 1 also happens to be my birthday. this gives you all a little more than 3 months to get me a gift.

do you like slightly crazy, bookish girls who love tacos and have only recently returned from a demon dimension? then check out this interview with Amy Acker, Angel's Fred. also, take a look at what some of the other cast members had to say to Sci Fi Wire.

"I deplore desecration of the flag in any form," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, but "I am strongly opposed to this resolution because it ... elevates a symbol of freedom over freedom itself."

simply stated, well stated. the House has passed a flag protection amendment. again. given the current party breakdown in the Senate, it's unlikely to pass. again.

CNN reports that a giant dust storm has covered Mars. they say the dust has caused the planet's temperature to rise by 30° Celsius. i've always been under the impression that large amounts of dust in the atmosphere cool a planet by reflecting sunlight back into space. CNN says, "Such howlers [big ass dust storms] do not besiege our planet thanks to the abundance of water, whether in the oceans or the air, which prevents airborne dust from cooking the atmosphere."

ok, so the water keeps our planet's temperature from rising due to atmospheric dust, but what keeps the dust from forming big ass storms in the first place?

hey, wait. didn't i read somewhere that Willow, Buffy's lesbian wiccan sidekick, is going to be on the cover of "Out" magazine soon? who was writing about that? they also mentioned something about some wrestler too. anyone know?

it's been a while since i've posted some geeklinks, right (Buffy links don't count)? here's a handful of them for you:

Scott Bakula and John Billingsley talk about their respective Enterprise characters and SciFi Wire tours the ship.

Sarah says she meant it when she said she'd quit Buffy if the show left the WB, but only until WB decided to turn into cheap bastards. meanwhile, UPN announces the fall premiere dates for it's new shows (and for Special Education 2 too)(oops. meant Special Unit 2). Buffy premieres on October 9. Roswell is prepared to back off of the scifi a bit and return to it's sappy roots of the first season.

over at the WB, it looks like they'll continue their tradition of screwing things up by taking liberties with the Superman mythos in Smallville.

and lastly, Chris Carter says "Oh, all right, I'll come back to X-Files, but just one more season... starting at the end of the next season."

next time, it'd probably be easier for me to just direct you to Sci Fi Wire, since i didn't bother to check out any of the original sources, or use a variety instead of a single source. eh, bite me. it's one of those days.

i've seen the recent rash of articles about the Salvation Army's stance on homosexuals and it's efforts to have Congress pass an antidiscrimination exemption for groups like them. i didn't realize though that the SA was also spending $88,000 to $110,000 per month to lobby for Bush's forced-conversion-based intiative. couldn't that money be better used to, oh, help the needy or something? at least buy some warmer coats for those people who stand outside Hell-Mart ringing the bell.

i've had my own pet theory about the Salvation Army for a while now, similar to my Girl Scout theory. someday, when i'm in a better mood, i'll share it.
[first two links from web queeries. i'm too lazy to go find the other sources. the last link i picked up at bushreport.com.]

you know, i don't think i'd name my church for a literary character whose name is synonymous with greed. {why didn't anyone tell me i'd misspelled that?}

also, none of these were Springfield Baptist Church i was looking for. if i'm to have the option of watching church services on Sunday morning television, i'd like it to be a church i find interesting. why doesn't Reverand Lovejoy have his own Sunday morning churchcast?

Joss talks a little about next season and Buffy's resurrection, says crossovers with Angel are unlikely and confims that some of the spoilers posted at AICN are true (but he's not telling which ones).

meanwhile, the WB is still being a bastard. the sore loser says that there will be *no* Buffy/Angel crossovers whatsoever.

ok, so i do agree that the two shows need to establish themselves and stand independent of one another, but it's so much fun vilifying WB for screwing up my Tuesday and Monday nights. i'll get over it soon. promise.

She's black, beautiful and six feet two inches of sexy cool. She's Cleaopatra Jones—and when she goes after lawbreakers, Cleopatra gets them with her lethal combination of karate kicks and kung fu chops. Tamara Dobson stars as the CIA agent in pursuit of a narcotics ring headed by Shelley Winters. —from the Outer Max description of Cleopatra Jones

cleopatra couldn't really kick butt because she'd mess up her outlandish 70's fashions, including big furry hats and tight dresses with spangles. shelley winters gives a totally over the top performance as the lesbian leader of an inner-city heroin ring. —from a user's comment on IMDb

i've never seen a Cleopatra Jones film, but, from the descriptions above, this is definitely something to see. Shelley Winters as drug kingpin? ha!