Dear Simple Plan

Dear Simple Plan:

I have kept silent for many years but I believe that I have reached a breaking point when it pertains to your crap-ass lyrics and painfully predictable rhyming schemes. This is a polite request that you look in the mirror and realize you are almost in your 30s now.

Yes ok... it was mighty clever of you to insert the word "dick" in your song "Addicted" and granted it is acceptable to enjoy that song from time to time in the privacy of your home. However everything you have released since then have been nothing but purely primative and unbearable.

Singles such as "Perfect" and "Welcome to my Life" should have never been allowed on the radio. If you are THAT old and still have to approach your father in such a passive-aggressive manner it clearly explains why you are Candian. Simple Plan I really hope "Welcome to my Life" was a genius piece of satire otherwise you clearly have been mistaken in feeling that you had a target audience of say a five-year-old which would be the age at which a person would not "know what it is like" to be a whiny douche.

Before you claim crammo (a hybrid of crappy emo) is all the rage as proven by your friendly rivals good charlotte, new found glory, bowling for soup, and the occasionally sum 41. Keep in mind some of their lyrics actually venture past rhyming 'me' and 'see' as well as 'true' and 'you'.

Finally in response to your latest single "When I'm Gone". No Simple Plan... Life is what happens while you're busy continuing to write songs a highschooler wouldn't bother to splooge in. Maybe next time write a song about the things in life YOU don't know it's like ... ya know having a family of your own, and a respectable career.

Things people your age should be looking into.

love:
Rose

The Douchepartment of Much Vindication (DMV)

I no longer fear hell for I have seen the DMV. And it seems that it's universal throughout... And most anyone who has had to set foot in this hellhole of pure bureaucracy and acrid humanity knows exactly what I mean....

The long of the short of it is sometime last night my license went MIA... and because I'm leaving soon cross country I found it highly important to get a replacement ASAP. So I gather what I thought was sufficient materials to prove things such as, my identity, my residency, my citizenship...

So apparently 5 bank statements (that and I quote meet the regulations posted on the website over 30 days old), a tuition bill, a loan statement, a W-2, and yes even a document SENT BY THE DMV ITSELF!!! Is not sufficient enough proof of residency for Ms.Redhead Bitch and her supervisor that conveniently left 5 minutes ago and won't be back till Thursday. I mean what the hell do they think I've just squatted in some unexpectating family's mailbox and run past and mail jack the box before they get home every afternoon... I think if you're able to produce at least five pieces of mail no matter what it is that span over 30 days... that's sufficient enough proof that you live there... and it's simply audacious that they wouldn't accept something that they fuckin sent... HOW THE HELL DID I GET IT THEN.

And it wouldn't bad if she wasn't such a bitch about it... First she accuses me of printing off the second statement I find (because apparently the first one had no activity on it... oh failed to mention that in your little fuckin website didn't you?) and after I insist I had just opened the envelope it came in then she says she won't accept it because it's nine months old... (yep makes sense printing it off and folded it in the exact likeness of a document that was in an envelope and dated nine months ago...) Why couldn't she be honest and save me the time and said...

"I'm an extremely bitter bitch, and I resent my position in this life because I made poor decisions and now work at the DMV where I see people much more successful than I am every single day... and so I grasp what little superiority I have over you... and because you have success clearly written all over you I will make it my job to make sure you do not leave here with this license today.... nothing you bring me will suffice me at the point because I already decided that it's you that will feel my failures in life today... "

So atm I continue to frantically backtrack to find my license while attempting to locate my latest statement... And this is only half the battle... without a license this DMV has to contact the Oklahoma DMV... omfg... I'm never gonna get my license am I?

I have no identity... WHO AM I?????????

Jirojirominai! (Don't Stare!)

So I never know what online dating sites I'm allowed to look at the boys...

I think it's True where it's not to stare... but why would I... those boyz are creepy on their webcams... or tanning aimlessly while someone is filming them... and then they talk to you... and it's all so confusing... they ask for your name and then wait a good 10 second before saying something else... which first off who does this ever fool... like... more than five times... really after the second time I was wise to fact that they could not hear me... well maybe third.

Or the guys that are "typing you" who look like that gooney in a webcam anyhow... or more accurately who gets that excited watching their computer... it's CREEPY!

What's worse are the Match.Com ads... where it's OK to look... k... so you can find... single smart people, or single doctors, or single musicians... but... THEY ARE ALL THE SAME GUY! Seriously! You mean to tell me there's only one guy at Match.com... k... it sounds like to me... he's a prostitute... if he can be all those things... and he's even more awkward that the guys I can't look at... inspecting me... it's CREEPY! And when he's the "smart guy" those glasses are so silly looking... it looks more like an Ad for a Halloween costume... and I want to see this guy like just on the street or like just working at American Eagle or something and be like... "Hey you're the Match.com guy... waiiiit a minute you're not a smart guy! You're a phony! A big fat PHONY!"

I don't want to hook me a hottie during boyfriend season ok (which is just around the corner yikes!)? So seriously... match and true... leave me be... stop with your crazy ads!

*sigh* in the infamous words of Paula Cole... "Where have all the cowboys gone?" oh that's right... it's that creepy smart/doctor/musician guy on Match.com... i'm sure he'd parade in a cowboy costume for me... at least it's ok to look :P

Eating Meat

So in Ethics we're doing an applied topics unit of "Our Duties to Animals" and I understand some animal testing is rather cruel... or had been apparently... but I'm so enraged at the hippiness of it all...

Like we have to read a 33 page essay entitled "The Immortality of Eating Meat" and all day yesterday Dr. McBride (who I hope to god was playing devil's advocate) was all gung ho about the Animal Liberation essay... Where Singer suggested that animals being given equal consideration of humans... Singer himself was a vegan...

And I find this ruthlessly absurd. Look you don't want to eat meat that's fine... but to suggest that person who does is immoral is ridicilious. Singer said that the only reason we eat meat is for the taste and we can get nutrients from meat from soybeans...

Look if we weren't in nature suppose to eat meat then we would not have been given incisors either thru god or evolution or some wacky combination of both. And whether we give humans the status of animals or animals the status of humans then some trade off has to occur...

if we say all animals deserve equal consideration then that would suggest that we have to tell other carnivores that they can not eat meat... good luck getting that memo out... and ya know what... until an animal expresses to me a desire for equal rights... then I'm going to continue to treat it like an animal... and maybe that's a point animals have no voice so we must decide for them... well then there you go... if we have to decide what's best for them... then we are superior which gives us the right to use animals as means... trust... if there was a superior being on this earth capable of hunting and trapping us... they would have their right to do what they wanted... thus is the advantage of survival of the fittest.

Am I speciesist... Damn skippy I am... I'll be damned if I'm going to give equal consideration to a damn cow. Look... they don't want to die... well that's all fine and good... neither do i... and I want to eat that cow so my consideration and happiness is at stake... and that one cow could feed like 5 people... so if you're going to utlitarianize the argument then the happiness of 5 people is worth the suffering of one cow. Also... yeah mass meat farms are gross and a tad sketch... but I also have the equal consideration to not want to pay out the ass for meat... so that I can invest my money in a HUMAN ECONOMY... you know why? BECAUSE I AM A FUCKIN HUMAN.

Would I feel different if I was cow... probably... but on the other hand would I be self aware of my plight... probably not.. because I would be a FUCKIN COW.

Look I'm gonna go with Kant on this one... which I found Kant is my main man... if you had a shot of Kant with a splash of Utilitarianism over iced Aristotle that would be one damn fine philosophy.

Kant believes that because animals are not rational that we can use them as means to an end... but... that we shouldn't mistreat them unless out of necessity because how we treat animals is a reflection of how we treat humanity.... so with Kant it's alright to eat meat... the living conditions of livestock is necessary to keep meat at an affordable price... animal testing is alright (with in reason) if it helps us make scientific discoveries that will benefit human beings... and what wouldn't be alright is things like torturing animals, beating them or starving them, shooting them for sport (unless it's a population deterrent because allowing the animals to become over populated and starve is cruel)

See isn't Kant an agreeable sort of guy... granted he tells you if the nazis came to your house looking for Ann Frank you'd have to turn her over because you could never universalize lying.... but other than that... kudos to you Kant and your categorical imperative.

In conclusion I beginning to wonder if I had misjudged one of my groupmates as a Liberal Hippie... Since he has cut his hair, stopped drinking out of wooden cup, and apparently loves to eat meat as much as the next guy... He's dare I say... moderately bearable. (a bit godly for my taste) but on a whole... I feel perhaps my initial impression of him was wrong... tho he is always in my personal space... I guess it's important to remember you can't judge a person by appearances which I think Eric would agree with because so many people mistake him for Russian... but you know Eric I think that has nothing to do with your blue eyes and blond hair, but probably that half empty bottle of vodka your always carrying around ;)

Finally... since I'm sure I've ruffled a few feathers... let's end with a laugh... and keep in mind... I'm not THIS gung ho about eating meat... or am I???

I Thought This Was America

I find it very frustrating when extremists from either side feels that this idea of freedom of expression is a one way road...

Earlier this week the Peace and Justice Center on campus tied many blue ribbons all over campus to trees and poles in memory of the anniversary of our fourth year occupying Iraq. Later in the week another unknown person or persons took down these ribbons. This act has been deemed as cold hearted vandalism. A breach on the rights of others in the community... and I want to know why?

First let me say... I do not support our presence in Iraq, I did not support the invasion or anything affiliated with the actions in Iraq that deterred America from finding Osama Bin Ladin who actually threated our very soil. That being said I'm still highly offended how the demonstration of the PJC is deemed peaceful while the other unknown group is being cursed as vandals.

The Unknown group had every single right to take down those ribbons. There are many people with family over in Iraq and those ribbons were a slap in the face to everything their family has done in the name of America. For those people to have to look at those ribbons everyday may have been highly offensive. And further more... they were left up for 3 days. That's plenty long enough for a peaceful memorial.

Even then the school mentions the hard work of the PJC to put them... I don't doubt that it was hard to take them all down too. You can't deem something moral on the grounds of effort. I can't say I agree with the ribbons being put up or torn down, but what I can't stay silent about is this double standard.

And I think that's something Americans need to understand. This is what it is to have freedom of speech. This unknown group cause absolutely no harm and I think had every right to make their own statement. I believe whole heartily it was in response to the very obvious opinion of the PJC that the war is meaningless, and I know if I had family or friends fighting every day in Iraq I would probably be offended to.

And on that note... putting ribbons up does not get the troops out of Iraq no more than taking them down is sentencing them to their death. PJC, you made your point... you only had to make your point for a day. Anniversary. Once. So drop it. Unknown group... I commend your bravery to make a counter statement and I hope that the community will someday recognize your right to your opinion.

In the end I feel so conservative... but in all actuality my belief that all opinions should be respected is what makes me a dirty hippy. So close yet so far away Eric. *grinz*