Los Angeles-based band Lustra recently claimed that Miley Cyrus stole one of their songs. You've probably never heard of Lustra, but they wrote the wildly-successful and popular song "Scotty Doesn't Know", featured in the movie Eurotrip. The Cyrus song? "Rockstar".
You can judge for yourself, but if you ask me, I think that Lustra has a pretty good oh come on who gives a fuck no one is ever going to listen to either of these songs again anyway.
5.19.2008
5.07.2008
lowfermation
A couple weeks ago I read an article in Time that reaffirmed something I have long believed: most people are morons.
One of the assertions in this article is that most people vote on the basis of "low-information signals", which are "stupid things like whether you know how to roll a bowling ball or wear an American-flag pin". The article goes on to claim that what initially set the Democrats apart was their reluctance to participate in this type of politics. It also asserts that this reluctance is what is probably causing them to lose so often.
Meaning: our country has been brought to the verge of collapse because John Kerry looked like a doofus trying to catch a football.
I assumed this type of low-information signaling as the basis of decision-making existed only in the political realm, but I just read something else that leads me to believe that people are morons basically all the time, as opposed to just when they're voting.
For those who care about celebrities, Uma Thurman's stalker was just declared guilty of fourth-degree stalking and second-degree aggravated harassment. (Sidebar: fourth-degree stalking? Can someone explain to me the differences in the degrees of stalking?) On People.com, there is an article interviewing a juror who talks about how the jury came to a decision.
"'At one point, leaving the stand, she seemed to hide her head in the crook of her arm,' Steel also says of Thurman - though, she goes on to report, the jurors questioned just how frightened Thurman might really have been."
Excuse me? She might have hid her head in the crook of her arm? Meaning that she was afraid? Are these people retarded? I have no idea whether or not this guy should have been convicted of stalking, but using a potentially accidental gesture committed by an actress as evidence is the type of thing that makes me terrified of our legal system. I wouldn't trust a group of twelve random people to watch my stuff while I take a piss, let alone decide how much time someone should spend in jail.
One of the assertions in this article is that most people vote on the basis of "low-information signals", which are "stupid things like whether you know how to roll a bowling ball or wear an American-flag pin". The article goes on to claim that what initially set the Democrats apart was their reluctance to participate in this type of politics. It also asserts that this reluctance is what is probably causing them to lose so often.
Meaning: our country has been brought to the verge of collapse because John Kerry looked like a doofus trying to catch a football.
I assumed this type of low-information signaling as the basis of decision-making existed only in the political realm, but I just read something else that leads me to believe that people are morons basically all the time, as opposed to just when they're voting.
For those who care about celebrities, Uma Thurman's stalker was just declared guilty of fourth-degree stalking and second-degree aggravated harassment. (Sidebar: fourth-degree stalking? Can someone explain to me the differences in the degrees of stalking?) On People.com, there is an article interviewing a juror who talks about how the jury came to a decision.
"'At one point, leaving the stand, she seemed to hide her head in the crook of her arm,' Steel also says of Thurman - though, she goes on to report, the jurors questioned just how frightened Thurman might really have been."
Excuse me? She might have hid her head in the crook of her arm? Meaning that she was afraid? Are these people retarded? I have no idea whether or not this guy should have been convicted of stalking, but using a potentially accidental gesture committed by an actress as evidence is the type of thing that makes me terrified of our legal system. I wouldn't trust a group of twelve random people to watch my stuff while I take a piss, let alone decide how much time someone should spend in jail.
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