ok,
i’m not sure what YOU’RE doing for YOUR weekend, but i’m:
a-going to “act” in a video that my friend reverend jen is making. i get to play
reverend jen jr’s love interest. note: rev jen jr is a chihuaha.
b-then tomorrow i’m going down to alexandria, va to an animal rights conference.
one of the great things about animal rights conferences is that you can eat. cos everything’s vegan. which is good. cos i like to eat.
also i get to take the train to d.c, which is nice cos i can just sit and look out the window and read crappy books.
speaking of transportation, could air travel become any less pleasant?
my theory is that eventually air travel will involve naked people, heavily sedated, kept in quasi-cryogenic storage as they get shuttled from one unpleasant place to another.
i guess i’m also a bit disturbed that the nsa, etc are just now figuring out that terrorists would try to use liquid explosives.
i did an interview A FEW YEARS AGO wherein i said, ‘huh, seems like all a terrorist would have to do is sneak liquid explosives onto the plane in a water bottle. that’s probably more attractive to them than attacking passengers with a butter knife.’
maybe the nsa should hire me as a consultant…
and why do they ban things from airplanes AFTER terrorists try to use them?
the terrorists are evil but they’re not stupid.
wouldn’t it make sense to try and figure out what they might do, as opposed to banning things they’ve already done or tried?
as an aside, there’s a great economics article in this weeks new yorker. written by james surowiecki, it’s about the military-industrial complex, and how the bush administration are cutting the anti-terrorism budget but spending more and more money on questionable things like new attack fighters and battleships.
for example: the bush administration cut $650 million from the program to inspect cargo containers coming into the u.s. that $650 million is 1/3rd the cost of 1 battleship that is currently in production.
i’m not so sure how effective battleships are at preventing terrorism…
ok, on a happier note, i’m off to go have my scene with a chihuaha dressed in disco clothes.
-moby