Everyone is complaining about the weather today. Is has been cold and rainy all day. Why are you idiots complaining? You live in Michigan and it's October. If you don't want to endure days like today, fucking move. Whiners.

In the words of Futurama's Hedonismbot, "I apologize for nothing."

It's pledge drive week on Michigan Radio, and presumably across the NPR network. Will I be giving? No. I have given money in the past (and have the Car Talk T-shirt to prove it), but it just wouldn't be right to financially support NPR as long as Day to Day is on the air. Day to Day is a Los Angeles-based co-production of NPR and the online magazine Slate. My objection is that NPR claims to be an objective, non-partisan new organization, yet they co-produce this show with Slate; Slate is so far to the left that it makes Salon.com look like the epicenter of the vast right-wing conspiracy. And yet Day to Day is presented as if it were a straight new program, not the hour-long editorial it actually is. I cannot imagine NPR co-producing a show with, say, The Weekly Standard, and then with a straight face calling it a non-partisan news program.

On the other hand, from a certain point of view Day to Day could be viewed as simply being more honest about its bias than the rest of NPR.

The League of Nations
I sincerely doubt that when the United Nations was founded, it's primary intended purpose was counting the dead. Hyperlink. One would hope the UN would act to prevent deaths, but given all the brides taken from Saddam Hussein during the course of the oil-for-food program, I suppose we should be grateful the UN is standing back and doing nothing in Sudan, rather than actively aiding the regime.

H-A-N
Have a surprising night.