Day: April 19, 2004

[…]
I've been walking forty miles of bad road
If the bible is right, the world will explode
I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can't win with a losing hand

Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

I hurt easy, I just don't show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

In case you can't read what the shirt says, the text is:

Christian
American
Heterosexual
Pro-Gun
Conservative
Any Questions?

Now I don't really mind that the kid is affirming who he is, he's quite entitled to. It's more the medium and the tone of it, the in-your-face aspect of it that I dislike. It's also the tone of “if you disagree, well fuck you, you're wrong”.

God bless america, or something like that.

Ok, maybe not yours, but someone's.

LONDON (Reuters) – Two nuclear submarines, one British and one American, surfaced near the North Pole on Monday for an impromptu game of soccer, Britain's Royal Navy said.

The two vessels surfaced through two naturally occurring gaps in the ice about half a mile from each other after completing a joint underwater exercise.

“The crews of HMS Tireless and USS Hampton are gearing up for a game of football,” Commander John Parris said.

“It will probably be English football (soccer) since I doubt our lot know much about playing American football,” Parris told Reuters from Portsmouth in southern England. “I expect there will also be the mother of all snowball fights.”

In addition to the military element both ships were carrying scientists interested in tracking signs of global warming.

The world's first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was the first vessel to navigate under the North Pole in 1958.