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So I recently rented Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I know I'm pretty late on this one, but I wasn't missing much...

 I had never thought it possible to turn one of the coolest jobs in the world, the assasin a cold blooded killing machine, and turn it into the theatrical equivlent of a swift kick in the balls. Hurts a little at first, then resinates throughout your entire body. Mr. and Mrs. Smith starts out extreamly slow with long/boring/pointless character development (lets just say after 45 minutes of this my eyes were wondering elsewhere), picks up the action in the center trying to disguise the movies shittyness with large explosions and Angelina in bondage gear, then shits all over our face at the end with one of the most unbelievable gun fights I have ever seen. To give you an idea let me set the stage for you. It's 2 (Mr. and Mrs Smith) versus what might as well be THE ENTIRE ARMY OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION all set in the cliche setting of a werehouse. Some how these two manage to kill enough men to fill a small morgue without so much as a single scratch. The only thing that could have made this move any better was if Angelina Jolie was topless through the entire movie (What? She did it in Gia?). What could have been a kick ass movie is plauged by unrealistic plot holes, stupid humor (and not the good kind of stupid humor), and just an overall dissapointment. Please don't waste your hard earned/stolen money on this. Try rock paper scissors, its free and much much more entertaining.

 No Child Left behind is a worthless program that does nothing but make public schools worse. This might have been just one of those ways that Bush tried to help his publicity by acting like he cared for our schools. Let me describe what it has done to my high school in plain english...FUCKED iT UP! We have kids shipped in from I don't know where that only cause problems. The schools those kids attended were horrible so maybe we should waste tax money and ship them half way across the city to another school so they can ruin it in hopes of making them better. All of this is so unbelieveably unneccessary. Almost all of these kids have no hope, and now they are causing the "better" school to become a failing school...great. Let's face it, a school full of bad students CANNOT be fixed by taking them to a better school. I really think we are shooting ourselves in the foot. 

I recently heard "Smack that" by Akon, which is a catchy song, but what upset me is that Eminem is back. Many, many people will argue that he is a great rapper, but I think not. One of my good friends and I had a discussion about this earlier in the day where he argued that he doesn't only rap about drugs, alcohol, misusing women or what not, or cars. In reaction, I do not believe his rap is much better. Eminem raps about all of his personal problems like any of us honestly care. He claims he doesn't like all the media that his break up with Kim got or his feuds with his mother, but its mostly all I hear in his music. I was truly shocked when I heard "Cleaning out my Closet" and saw the video. Is he implying that he wants to kill his mother? Does he have skeletons in his closet? Who knows.  Read More »

As I picked up the newspaper this morning, the main story was about how the 300 millionth american would be born at 7:46 this morning. It is truly amazing how many people now live in this country. It is also expected that it will be a Hispanic boy in Los Angeles. It's a wonder how they come up with these things, and how they know they can map the exact second that our population will reach 300 million.  Read More »