First Post Of The New Year ....

So it's now twenty-ten eh?  What's that? You'd prefer "two-thousand and ten?" Whatever.  I'm going with "twenty-ten."  I'm also going to consider this the first day of the new decade.  I know this means I hate Jesus or something, but again, I don't care. 

Twenty-ten is the first year of the new decade.  Don't like that? Suck it. I don't fucking care.  But, you can call it whatever you want.

The biggest thing I'm wondering about is when I'm putting the date on some important document, like say I'm acknowledging that I have received a new retraining order from Dakota Fanning, or signing a contract, can I go back to using two numbers to indicate the year?  Can I put the date as 1/4/10 or do I still have to do the full year as in 1/4/2001?  This is a far more important discussion than when the decade begins.  I think I'm going to keep putting the full year down.  I don't want to risk any trouble from someone with a room temperature IQ not knowing what year I meant.

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Oh!  Here are a couple of awards I had been intending to give out, but only posted a couple of times the last couple of weeks.  Anyway ...

Mother of the Year goes to this chick...


And, Father of the Year goes to this dude on the far right...


Congrats you two!

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As crazy as it sounds, I'm starting to get this feeling that Charlie Sheen isn't a good husband.

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I tweeted exactly 7,000 times in 2009.  That seems like a lot, but it's only a bit over 19 per day.  And if you consider that I don't tweet between midnight and 8 am very much at all, it doesn't make it that much more impressive.  So clearly one of my new years resolutions is to tweet more. 

I've also made a resolution to Facebook more. 

And my other resolution is to finally join Mafia Wars and Farmville and all those other games*


Oh yeah, my other resolution is to become an ice cream coned shared by Blake Lively and Leighton Meester...


I think I have a chance.

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Oh yeah, the other thing I was going to post before the end of the year was my list of my favorite TV shows of the 2000's.  So I'll do it now. 

House Hunters

Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis

Top Gear

Myth Busters

Ice Road Truckers

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson

Weeds

Scrubs

NCIS

Pushing Daisies

Dexter

King of the Hill

Family Guy

Caliente

Modern Family

Sons of Anarchy

The West Wing

Gilmore Girls

Mad Men

The Shield

You're probably wondering where The Sopranos and The Wire are.  Well, I didn't have HBO when they were on, so I haven't seen them.  So they don't go on the list.

Also, I haven't necessarily seen every episode of every show.  And some of them haven't been awesome all the way through their run.  But at some point during the decade, I loved these shows.

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I'm not a big fan of horror movies, but I can watch one right before bedtime and not have any problems.  Hoarders? Not so much.

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Finally, my prediction for the upcoming decade is that "According to Jim" will finally be recognized for the original comedic genius that it was. 

Or not.



* I have no intention of fulfilling this resolution. 

Tax This ....

Okay, so I know I'm "off the grid" but I just couldn't stand it. I had to come here real quick like and chime in on this A.I.G shit.

As you probably know Congress passed a special tax bill yesterday aimed at A.I.G. and those bonuses. This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen any congress do. I find it appalling on so many levels.

The first A.I.G. bailout happened in Sept of 2008. The second in Oct. of '08. Neither of those times did ANYONE, democrat or republican, in the Bush admin or in congress, stand up and say "hey, we gotta do something about those big bonuses these companies give." Yes, with the third round some people did want to place limits on compensation and yes, those limits were taken out. But, again, both the Obama and admin, most dems and most republicans didn't want those limits.

Now everyone is pretending to be outraged at A.I.G. and the bonuses. So, while completely ignoring their own responsibilities and complicity in this whole fiasco, congress passes one of the most outrageous tax bills EVER. And it was probably the most bipartisan vote you'll see come out this congress all year!

This tax, a retroactive tax aimed specifically at a small group of people is down right un-American. It's also completely unfair. It doesn't just hit the A.I.G. people, but EVERYONE who works for ANY company that took TARP funds. So basically they're clobbering all the good and honest people who work for a lot of these firms just because they're in a faux populist snit over a handful of people and CEOs.

I say write your senators and tell them to vote no on this bill. Write the republican leadership and tell them to put as much effort into stopping this bill as they are in putting anonymous holds on economic and science advisors that have been nominated and can't get an up or down vote. And write Obama and tell him to try to stop this bill or veto it.


Okay, that's all I've got. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Feel free to disagree with me all you want. And if you want to try to lay all the blame for all of this one political party, go ahead. But, please be able to back that claim up. I say that because I think they are ALL incompetent fucks. And they are all to blame. That's why they are all getting together to pass this outrageous tax bill.


Anyway, just to make us all feel better after that, here is a picture of Gossip Girl's Blake Lively and Leighton Meester ....


WHOA! I totally feel better now, don't you?