Although it’s obviously not anywhere near the actually reported story, Law and Order SVU aired an episode Saturday that talked about a pregnancy pact among teen girls in Little Italy. Death and adventure ensue.

Update: By far one of the best SVU episodes I’ve seen in a long, long time.

New BEST COMMENT EVER on the anti-Twilight story:

kirsten on November 19th, 2008 4:37 pm

why dont you goddamn feminists go shave your legs.

if you dont like the idea of women needing help, then DONT read the books or go out into the real world, because women should just stay in the kitchen and clean. Im a girl, and i think women usually do need a man to help them with things, and thats why we arent all lesbians.

its a good book, and a good love story. most love stories girls are helpless to a man anyway.
seriously, no man wants a girl whos all about womens right, so shut up and be happy you can vote.

… it was a new episode.

Everyone got mad at Homer for doing something obviously stupid and wrong. It involved alcohol and money. One family member tried to cut him off. Then he did something amazing and made everyone love him again. All along, there were pithy remarks about the economy.

hrm … that’s basically a summation of the past two seasons.

PSA Blog’s “Twilight Sucks” article is up to 1,700 comments.

Here is my favorite:

Cassi on November 14th, 2008 9:24 pm

If you all hate twilight so much how come you seem to know whats in all four books
If you hated it so much why didn’t you stop after the first one
I love twilight and am listening to the Soundtrack right now as i right this
I would like to know why you all hate it so much
Its a love story and vampire story all in one what could be better
Stephanie Meyer is a genius !!!

Oh dear lord.

Yes, because if you hate something, the best thing to do is stop reading and pretend it doesn’t exist.

Future of America?

Blast is releasing a Twilight Extra Edition Monday.

We are testing WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 on PRrag.com to test it out.

So far so decent.

It is definitely a better visual interface than 2.6, but it’s a whole nother thing to get used to.

I like John McCain.

I liked him in 2000, and I think many can agree that the world would be a much different place under McCain for the past eight years.

But Sarah Palin scares me. I mean, she actually makes me cringe with real fear. This is not funny “Blair Witch” fear, but “Arachnaphobia” fear; “The Shining” fear. I can feel her coming at me with an ax saying “Hereeeeeee’s Alaska!”

People criticized Matt Damon for his remarks about Palin.

But listen to what he’s saying. I’m not saying I agree with him 100 percent, but he makes a valid point.

I’m a registered independant, and not a partisan member of any party or paid subscriber of any ideology.

What in the world was John McCain thinking when he picked a seeming obscure governor or the most obscure state in the country? With a record of corruption? Who can’t name an American newspaper? Who thinks the media exists to play “gotcha games” and trick people?

I don’t care that she’s a woman. I don’t care about that at all.

What I saw on Saturday Night Live last night, and indeed what we’ve all seen for the last eight years is a real man, a good man who all Americans can respect if not always agree with. We are missing that in this country. Really, we’ve been missing that for more than 50 years.

When did it become unpatriotic to disagree? When did it become foolish to respect your enemies? When did it become stupid to like a president you can disagree with? My God did Edward R. Murrow accomplish nothing?

What did I see on SNL last night? I saw a man who can take a joke. I saw a man who can play along and laugh while still looking you in the eye.

I saw a candidate who actually took part in a SNL skit, as opposed to his running mate a few weeks ago who basically just stood there and twirlled her hair.

We can’t overlook the running mate situation any longer. John McCain is going to lose on Tuesday in large part because of Sarah Palin. John Kerry lost in 2004 in large part because John Edwards couldn’t carry either Carolina. If he picked Dick Gephardt, he would have carred Ohio and won. Al Gore lost because Joe Lieberman couldn’t bring in a single state that the Democrats weren’t already going to win. One of George H. W. Bush’s downfalls was his unpopular a vice president.

America needs a strong leader, a maverick, and a man (or woman) with balls. We need a real energy plan that will ween us off foreign oil and create countless thousands of good, quality jobs in the wind, solar and other environmentally friendly, domestic sources.

We don’t need “drill baby drill.” You’re wrong on that too, Senator McCain.

But mainly, we don’t need a vice president who actually scares us more than Dick Cheney.

Oh, and Ben Affleck is da bomb.

Two weeks ago I was asking the professor I work for if it was possible that the Dow might go below 10,000.

Now that it’s at about 8,500, I wonder how low it can possibly go before we hit bottom.

I actually got yelled at by a girl last week for not using the right cat litter for my boys.

I had been using Tidy Cats, and she said that I need to be using a natural cat litter and that the one I was using would give them cancer and give me cancer and that it’s bad for the environment.

My response: “yeah, and it doesn’t clump well either.”

This one is a long time coming.

A lot of people are discounting the current financial crisis, saying that the average American isn’t seeing the problem “in their own wallet.”

My generation, the 18-30-somethings out there now, have been suffering through the last eight years more than we know, and I realized that as soon as I graduated from college.

The highest percentage of Americans ever is currently attending college, but financial aid just hasn’t been there for many.

And I do not count federal loans as financial aid. Those are exactly what they claim to be: loans, from the government, that you have to pay back, with interest.

So we’re all going to school, absorbing the loan debt because accountants and financial professionals are saying “it’s good debt.”

My primary degree is in journalism. My job offers upon graduation ranged from $25,000 to $35,000, and now I freelance my ass off to try to make a living as I put myself through grad school (more loans and “good debt”) so that I can have a graduate degree and one day teach in my field.

I am making better than that $35,000 a year we just talked about between freelancing and a little bit from Blast, but let me give you the run down that the average recent college grad living in Massachusetts has to deal with:

Monthly expenses:

Rent: $1,000
Electric and gas (landlady won’t pay): $100 
Cell phone: $120 ($99/month unlimited? yeah, right, Verizon)
Cable and internet: $120 ($69/month?!? yeah, right, Comcast)
Federal student loans: $140
MEFA/ACS student loans: $140 and parents pay $500/month for now (thank you mom and dad) 
Credit cards (personal): $300
Credit cards (Blast/business): $150
Auto insurance: $60
Renter’s insurance: $20
Groceries: $200
Health insurance: $200 (part-timers pay more!)

Monthly: $2,550
Yearly: $30,600 

Now, let’s add gas to the equation. Thankfully, the Boston Globe does pay my mileage when I’m on assignments, so let’s call that half.

Gas: $300/month - $150 = $150 * 12 = $1,800/year

So before I go out, have a beer, see a movie, buy cat food for my little monsters or do really anything else, about $30,000 is already spent.

For a lot of people, forget working at a non-profit or pursuing your art or taking a year off to volunteer or do what you “want” to do. 

Now, I’m not starving or out on the street, but that’s $30k gone just to live! My my parents weren’t there to pay that $6,000/year, I don’t know what I’d do. My point is, I graduated from college with a mortgage! But I can’t see how someone can classify that as “good debt” because I can’t sell the “house!” And if everyone is going to go to college by default this generation, that piece of paper that says “Bachelor” on it is going to be as worthless as my high school diploma.

So, like Wall Street, my investments are over-inflated and decreasing in value.

But my debts aren’t. 

Bailout please?