Halffull.org

Singing “Yeah yeah yeah yeah” ad infinitum does not a good singer make. Having a hoarse voice that sounds like a raspy goat dying does not a good singer make. Being an annoying, mindless bitch and playing to the crowd doesn’t either.

I’m not saying the competition is the best thing to hit music ever, either, but anything is better than this.

This puts to shame Ruben beating Clay. Fantasia, go count your blessings with Macy Gray, and pray that America never grows ears.

A Monroe County Family Court judge ruled a few weeks ago that a Rochester-area woman should not have any more children until her four existing children were out of foster care. Three of these children tested positive for cocaine at birth; the fourth was not tested. The ACLU is considering taking on the woman’s case, except that no one can find the woman — she doesn’t have a permanent address.

The court also ruled that the woman’s boyfriend should not have any more children either. The judge recommended birth control, although not specifying a method.

The woman has been picked up for drug trafficking and also for prostitution. She allegedly offered an undercover cop sex for $15. When he refused, she lowered the price to $10 and offered to have sex with the officer’s partner as well.

The woman is already pregnant again — conception took place sometime in March, before the “no pregnancy” order was put in place.

Does this court ruling violate individual rights to privacy? Discuss.

So there’s this fantastic episode of the Sopranos, where Tony and two of his guys are talking with this Jewish associate of theirs, and a Cuban guy who’s involved with this particular business deal. And they’re discussing the Columbus Day parade, and how the indians (Native Americans) are protesting it because Columbus killed so many Indians. And the Italians are upset because Columbus is their hero and they’ve been oppressed too, by Europe who looks down on them and by Americans here when they were immigrants. And then the Cuban talks about how his people suffered too, and how Colombus is like Hitler. So then the Jewish guy gets pissed and accuses the Cuban of being an anti-semite, because “no one was as bad as Hitler”.

And now I’m writing this paper for my Blues class about this Jewish guy and the record label he ran and the black musicians he recorded, and I started thinking about that Sopranos episode. So many of us talk about how our people were victimized. Even myself and Izzat joke about how the Irish were oppressed by the British. And then you’ll hear an activist talk about how their people suffered, the Jews suffered, the blacks suffered, the hispanics suffered, even white people suffered at the hands of other white people. Continue Reading »