DarkObserver, 8. April 2003 um 20:45:53 MESZ

Babes doing Karate

In my youth it used to be tough guys with lots of muscles who used Karate and did all the action on TV. Okay, there was "Charlie's Angels", and Emma Peel of "The Avengers" way before that but nowadays you have babes like "Dark Angel" or the sexy Jennifer Garner in "Alias" beating up foreign agents and doing all the stunts.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad, I mean for us guys there's the "drool factor" in addition to all the high-tech action and for some gals I guess these uber-chicks are a role-model somehow. Too bad though for girls who are rather short and/or heavy-set who will never look nor move like these action-babes. I wonder if TV series like the ones I mentioned contribute to female eating disorders, especially among teenagers?

DarkObserver, 7. April 2003 um 21:07:36 MESZ

Genocide in East Congo

Unfortunately the Iraq War is overshadowing that elsewhere on this fine planet other people are slaughtering each other to the thousands.

In Eastern Congo, Ugandan occupants are presumably giving machine guns and other weapons to cattle breeders who use them to kill lots and lots of small crop farmers, who belong to a different tribe. The area is rich in natural resources and obviously Ugandans and the cattle breeder tribe want to exploit them all alone.

Now in retribution the other tribe has struck back and killed the inhabitants of an entire village. A British doctor named "Swell" witnessed "heaps of dead bodies everywhere " in the streets and "huge pools of blood".

Shit. Is it good to be able to know all that? Sometimes I'm not sure, if the English saying "Ignorance is bliss" isn't true. But what can I do? Close my eyes, stuff my ears, throw out the TV and sell the computer? One has to learn to cope with the horrors of this world without becoming a hopeless cynic or a religious freak, even if it's tough...

DarkObserver, 7. April 2003 um 20:58:42 MESZ

Worth a chuckle

Just now on CNNI, there's a reporter interviewing a U.S. general named "Benjamin Freakly" lol His troops are investigating 2 suspected chemical weapons sites, with inconclusive results so far.

I gotta give it to Gen. FREAKLY, that he's trying to maintain an objective standpoint, or so it seems, because every time the reporter wants to jump to conclusions about "nerve agents", he reminds him that the tests showed pesticides not nerve agents. The place is obviously some farming compound, where this stuff is expected to be found.

Anyway, I just found his name so funny that I had to write this.