X-Tra Rant

It’s been a relatively uneventful week. I’ve decided that www.mp3.com is one of the kick-ass-est sites out there, I bought a digital camera, and I’ve started my job hunt that will determine my path in “the real world.”
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Okay, you know the people I’m talking about. The cute, adorable couples who go out in public and practically hump each other in a room full of people. I was at Average Joe’s with Matt last Saturday, and at the bar was the most pathetic couple I’ve ever seen. Given she was really hot, so I can’t blame the guy for wanting to be all over her, but damn, couldn’t they at least get a booth instead of sitting at the bar? They came in, and pretty much sat on the same barstool, the whole time they were there interspersed with kisses and gropes. Ugh.. enough to make a (single) guy sick. LOL
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Last Friday (the 14th) I went out with Nicole and her friend Yolanda. We went shopping (I got fashion advice, since I’m a programmer, and have no fashion sense), then ate, then went dancing.

WARNING: Tall, uncoordinated white male dancing can be hazardous to your sense of style.
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This is to all the people out there who say “kids these days” and that kids today are becoming more violent. An article I read today cited a study that shows otherwise. Among some of it’s findings:

* Seven in 10 Americans think a school shooting could happen in their communities, but a child has a 1 in 2 million chance of being killed in a U.S. school.
* Youth homicide arrests dropped 56 percent from 1993 to 1998, but two-thirds of 1,000 people polled by The Washington Post in November said they believed children were getting more violent.
* Citing Maryland as an example, suspensions for false alarms and bomb threats went up 44 percent from the 1997-98 school year to the 1998-99 year. Although it was not known whether the alarms and threats themselves increased, the group said the significant increase in suspensions alone reflected a crackdown on such infractions.
* In Phoenix, black students are suspended from school at 22 times the rate of white students; in Denver, San Francisco and Austin, they are suspended at least three times as often
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I saw the new John Cusack movie High Fidelity last week. Damn was it exquisite! (Okay, obscure Mallrats quote there). Anyway, just thought I’d do a quick review of the movie without too many spoilers.

Rob (John Cusack) is a guy who’s life is seemingly stuck in a rut, and his problems with women all seem to stem from one 7th grade encounter. The movie chronicles his attempts at finding out what went wrong to cause these bad relationships, and in the process, rescue his relationshi with Laura (Iben Hjejle).
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An article I read recently confirms my opinion that the problem with violence and shootings in school is not the media and culture, but is in fact the inability of parents to raise their children that these sort of actions are wrong. This article tells the charming story of a teenage girl in an argument at a track meet, and her sweet mother in an argument with the mother of the other girl in the argument. It is also the story of how this mother of the first girl pulled out a gun in the stands of the track meet and shot at the other mother.

Fortunately, she missed. Unfortunately, she hit another woman in the ass as she was running away from the drawn gun.
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“Championship” wrestling doesn’t even try anymore. I’m listening to X103, and there’s an ad on for some third rate professional wrestling event in Indy, featuring the Legendary Some Guy You’ve Never Heard Of and Half Naked Women. Seriously. They said “And half naked women!”. Is it just me, or is that “professional” wrestling admitting to that fact that it is pandering to the lowest common denominator and staged?
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