Day: February 1, 2006

Categories
General

Hooray For The Dark Girls!

Out on my lunch time walk in downtown Chicago, I couldn’t help but notice a number of very attractive dark ladies. Hooray! When this happens I’m always reminded a girl I went to grade school with named Lisa. She was really quite dark, black (#000000) actually and very pretty. Alas, I was too immature at the time to act appropriately, or at least better than grabbing her bottom on occasion. The really sad thing is that I also remember growing up, that even among black people, those of us that were actually black in color were often made fun of. The “high yellow” girls were the real prizes to be sought after.

I never felt that way, so today I say hooray for the dark girls! 😉

Categories
politics

Addicted To Oil

Might as well face it, we’re addicted to oil… It’s nice that President Bush at least in words is acknowledging the need to break U.S. dependency on foreign oil, but he didn’t lay out anything new or detailed on how to get there. Indeed, he took the politically safe route that pushes the goal far into the future to 2025 and seems to favor the popular, but inefficient, ethanol to the front. Oh well, it isn’t fair to expect a lot from a state of the union address, still one always hopes.

All in all, the president’s address seemed to be more of the same. So along those lines, America leadership and resisting isolationism would seem to mean that we will be invading Iran pretty soon and won’t be out of Iraq any time soon. Our need to be competitive with India and China actually means that U.S. companies will remain free to export more jobs to those countries not because they are better educated than Americans, but because they are cheaper. And the endless war on terrorism means that the illegal domestic spying will continue. Oh well, I guess there is some comfort in consistency…