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I might just take all of my title names from classnamer from now on. It really saves me from the hardest part of writing these damned things.

This past weekend (and even now) I've had some foul flu-like disease which has really destroyed any Joementum I've had coming into the stretch here. I was ready to go to 2 concerts this week and reconnect with some old mates when this bug came in and kicked me straight in the ass. I was out even worse than Bear Stearns this weekend. It's pretty funny, right? Hah, Hah! But I'm actually extremely pissed off; I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. It's just so far past "I told you so" that I can't say that anymore. Doesn't have the requisite OOMPH. The only thing I can think to say is fuck you; It's the new black.

Lets put things into a ludicrous perspective. Anyone can go onto Yahoo and find out just how bad the dollar has taken a tumble since 2002 against the Euro (protip: it was on parity, now it's around $1.60 for 1 EUR), and it's very startling to an American's sense of idiotic superiority to learn that the CAD is worth more than the USD, but to me the anguish really concerns Japan.

A mere 2 years ago, I went to said island nation and was able to fetch 127 JPY for a single greenback.
Not 1 year ago, I revisited the land of the rising sun with my younger brother, and we received not less than 117 JPY per hard earned American Dollar at the very same money change counter in Narita. In those 15 months, something that I enjoy doing got 8% more expensive purely because our economy is in the shitter and nobody trusts the complete idiots in chief to right it.

This monday, the dollar hit as low as 96 JPY. 96. That's a roughly 18% drop in 9 months. In January, it was already down around 106, 105. Something that I liked doing in January 2006 is now 25% more expensive to do purely because our economy is in the shitter and... you get it. I'd love ever so much to blame this on Ohio, and I do; but the problem is really a sociopolitical perfect storm that can only be described as completely fucking retarded. I mean this with the utmost respect to the actual mentally retarded, because they don't deserve to be compared to the intellectually indigent beltway assholes steering everyone straight into the shit pile.

This is what happens, America, when you allow anti-intellectualism to become the dominant culture; you get people trying to stress already underfunded schools by making them teach idiotic filth alongside evolution, you get a hulking mass of voters who want their political representatives to be typical instead of exemplary, and you get a bunch of deified capitalist idealistic monsters who have just plain have no fucking place in reality as we know it. And you ruin my fucking trips to Japan. So if you are out there, and you voted for Bush because Kerry seemed like he was too boring, or his face looks like that of a horse, or you think John Edward's hair and plastic smile and double chin looked a bit too perfect, or (and I sincerely hope against hopes this doesn't apply) that you actually agreed with anything that ridiculous, impish conman said in his first 4 years, then I say to you fuck you as emphatically as a sick man can.