i'm not watching the state of the union address.

i already know how the union shapes up today: a terrible economy, though falsely bubbling of late due to all the "stimulus packages" (really? no better term than that, guys? sounds like a sex toy.); an utterly polarised constituency; two wars (that we know of) from a "presidentcy" already a year in the "revision" mirror; a bunch of states i'd rather weren't part of the union (um, california, texas and england, to name 3); a bunch of people pissed off that a UW graduate (student? applicationerperson? i don't know.) got convicted of murder in an italian court who think that cos the court wasn't american it couldn't have been correct and are calling on secretary of state hillary clinton to "do some shit" even though she has 4 or 5 terms worth of diplomatic ass-kicking to do to make up for bush II's bullshit; thousands of crumbling ecosystems; outdated infrastructures, massive overpopulation and a health care system that reserves almost all care for the "best" of us.
it's not all bad news, though: "idol" is back, with a vengeance--tons of "guest judges", scads of talent, all that; leno is gonna be back on "late night" where he belongs and we no longer have to watch someone like conan, who is actually funny; NBC gave conan a "fair" severance package of 33 fkn million to make this happen; the colts are in the superbowl, which means we'll be treated to lots of one-way refereeing and hours of pundit-gushing about peyton manning, who i just found out is actually a top-tier quarterback and not just that funny guy who looks like he's crushing on justin timberlake on all the commercials; NCIS is now a "franchise" like CSI, adding a new series, NCIS los angeles, starring the always hip chris o'donnell and the ever cool ll cool j; there is a lot of legislation in "various different" legislative bodies over "texting while driving", which is quite similar to the furor over "gay marriage" just before bush II invaded iraq just to settle a score his daddy was too much of a wimp to settle back in '91--giving us something legitimately controversial if decidedly back-burner to yell and scream about instead of having to focus on all the tough and uncomfortable stuff; CEOs are keepin their cheddar flowin lovely in the face of all the gloom-and-doom naysaying directed at them; "survivor" has a righteous new season queued up, bringin back some "fave's" and some "bad guy's" to see who's really "boss"; according to the banner on the wall of the puyallup library, "pierce county reads", which is pretty awesome considering it's an arbitrarily boundaried land mass that bears no similarity to anything with any sort of conciousness, unless you believe coral reefs have simian-like conciousness, which i definitely do not.
in other news, my check engine light has been on since 3 march last year. i remember the date cos i was on my way back to the hill from seattle, where i stayed at a friend's house on her couch when i really wanted to sleep in her bed cos she gets all cuddly and warm when i do that (well, she did the one time i did that) and i'm demonstrably low on any a that cuddly bidness.
in other other news, it was sunny this morning, but it din't last. i blame joe biden III.
in other other other news, i'm hungry and thirsty and i need new goggles. not the beer kind.
peace.