Here's some things I've been thinking about tonight:
1. PORN Theme-porn. It makes sense and keeps porn interesting. There's porn that's make as a take-off of movies, such as Porn Wars for Star Wars, and then there's also porn designed with certain movie genres in mind, like Westerns or Mystery-themed porn. SO WHY HAS THERE BEEN NO HORROR-PORN COMBOS? Think about it: most horror movies almost always have some sort of sex in them and usually some bare boobs (Joe Bob Briggs even used boobs as a rating system!), so one would think that combining porn and horror would be an obvious marriage. So, why hasn't it happened, or if it has happened, why has it been so limited?
2. FOOD Tried a new soup tonight for dinner, and it is a fantastic Russian soup for cold and rainy weather. It's really amazing and definitely worth a try.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Russian-Mushroom-and-Potato-Soup/Detail.aspx
3. SPORT For most of...I don't know...FOREVER...anytime that anyone thinks of a football/soccer power in CONCACAF (if there ever was such a thing), the automatic name that pops up is Mexico. Over the past year though, something peculiar has happened.....Mexico has officially started to suck badly. Look at the numbers: currently 4th in the CONCACAF final round, and in the last year, they've lost approximately 200 points in the FIFA World Rankings. What the Hell is going on there?!?!!? Is anyone beginning to think Mexico will be watching the World Cup from home?
4. POLITICS As many of you may well know, EU Parliamentary elections were held last week(end). Other than the obvious results of the EPP getting more and the PES getting less, it seems like there were big gains for Euro-skeptics and fringe parties. A lot of people seem to think that the same slogan from the US Presidential Election of 1992, "it's the economy, stupid," applies; however, I personally don't believe that it is so simple. Yes, economic condition does play a large role in how people vote (people usually keep governments that make jobs and replace those that lose jobs), but there are also a lot of other factors in play. Since the last election in 2004, around which the EU was also in the process of adding a number of new members from the Baltics and Central Europe, the EU has changed significantly: aid has flowed East; migrants have flowed West; subsidies have flowed everywhere; and the Union itself has become more intrusive in the everyday life of its members countries, their economies, and their citizens. Bottom line: I think the people of each individual country are, to varying degrees, realizing that the "wonderful" idea of rushing to unite with the rest of Europe was both a bit hasty and taken without consideration of the potentially negative unintended consequences.