Monday, August 30, 2004

Alice Cooper Isn't the Only Who Isn't Fond of Don Henley

Alice Cooper is supporting Bush, but I’m more interested in his take on Don Henley.

"If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn’t already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that’s a good reason right there to vote for Bush."

I don’t really care who Alice supports, I just find it kind of funny that Alice’s thoughts on Don Henley are really not that different than Mojo Nixon’s, who recorded, on the album Otis, the song "Don Henley Must Die." Though personally, I get more of a kick from Mojo’s album Root Hog or Die.

Alice’s quote lifted from Samizdata.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/30 at 04:10 PM
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Cryo-Ablation

I had not heard about this form of prostate cancer treatment until last night, when I was informed that a mutual friend had just returned from Germany to have this procedure performed.  Here’s a link on the procedure, and a link to a news release on the results of a study on its effectiveness, or ineffectiveness, depending upon your interpretation of the data and comments appended to the news release.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/30 at 03:46 PM
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A Short Thought on Respecting Property

The other evening, while returning home from my walk with the Iz, a bag of her scat in my hand, I strolled by the Catholic school not too distant from my house.  A local roofing company, in the course of repairing the school’s roof, had set up a 20 yard refuse container for, of course, the remains of old materiels stripped away in preparation for the new.

As I passed by the 20 yard container, I nonchalantly tossed the bag of Iz’s scat into the container.  No one witnessed this, and the scat, which wouldn’t have filled a sandwich bag, consumed an insignificant portion of the 20 yard container’s volume.

I’ve been considering this action, over the last few days, because when I nonchalantly tossed the bag into the roofing company’s 20 yard refuse container, I immediately knew that I shouldn’t have.  The container was not mine to utilize as I saw fit, even though my contribution to its contents was insignificant.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/30 at 03:28 PM
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