If you've ever seen Anime Fanboys here in the states etc, then this is the other way around
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Original story by Leonard Pitts, Jr. of McClatchy Newspapers

See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph e-mailed me about a caller he heard on a radio show. The man, vexed over health-care reform, likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Asked why, he said, "Hitler took over the car companies, then health care and then he killed the Jews."

Said Joseph: "I almost swerved my vehicle off the road when I heard that."

But the caller is hardly unique. Google "Obama + Nazis" and you get almost 7 million hits. Nor is the phenomenon new. Substitute President Bush's name and you get nearly 2.8 million.

Even granting that many of those hits are benign, it seems obvious the Nazis have invaded American political rhetoric in a big way. As in Rush Limbaugh declaring health-care reform "a Hitler-like policy," swastikas popping up at protest rallies, a poster depicting Obama with Hitler's moustache and a pamphlet that says: "Act Now to Stop Obama's Nazi Health Plan!"

It's important to remember that the Nazis are passing out of living memory; U.S. soldiers of that era are said to be dying at the rate of 1,200 a day. Which makes it too easy, I think, for a nation of notorious historical illiteracy to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose boogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points.

So I thought it would be good to make you sick, i.e., to spend a few minutes reminding some and teaching others what you invoke when you invoke the Nazi regime.

For the record, then: It was Nazis who shoved sand down a boy's throat until he died, who tossed candies to Jewish children as they sank to their deaths in a sand pit, who threw babies from a hospital window and competed to see how many of those "little Jews" could be caught on a bayonet, who injected a cement-like fluid into women's uteruses to see what would happen, who stomped a pregnant woman to death, who once snatched a woman's baby from her arms and, in the words of a witness, "tore him as one would tear a rag."

That's who the Nazis were, ladies and gentlemen -- those obscenities plus 6 million more. They were the triumph of ideology over reason and even over humanity, the demonization of racial, religious and political difference, the objectification of the vulnerable other. And the authors of a mass murder that staggers imagination, still.

You would think, then, that where they are invoked to draw a parallel or make a point, it would be done with a respect for the incalculable evil the Nazis represent. You would think people would tread carefully, not because of the potential insult to a given politician (they are big boys and girls) but because to do otherwise profanes the profound and renders trivial that which ought to be held sacred by anyone who regards himself as a truly human being.

But in modern America, unfortunately, rhetoric often starts over the top and goes up from there. So fine, George W. Bush is "a smirking chimp." Fine, Barack Obama is "a Chicago thug." We have a Constitution, after all, and it says we can say whatever we want. It doesn't say it has to be intelligent.

And yes, you are even protected if you liken Obama or Bush to Hitler. Yet every time I hear that, it makes me cringe for what it says about our collective propensity for historical amnesia and our retarded capacity for reverence. Once upon a lifetime ago, 6 million people with DNA, names and faces just like you and I, were butchered with gleeful sadism and mechanistic dispatch.

You and I may no longer respect one another, but is it asking too much that we still respect them?Original Source

So I was glad to hear about Blizzard revealing the Monk class, probably would be the first of the new classes I'd play as when it comes out.

But in sadface news; Diablo III isnt expected to come out in 2010. Though we will be getting StarCraft 2 and some WoW expansion (that I couldnt care less about) it just feels... incomplete. Wish they could have a stunning trifecta in 2010.

I really wasnt expecting much out of this movie when I saw the trailer. But I really think its the best one theyve ever done. Its the only Pixar movie Ive seen where people are really crying at the end of it. Theres at least one scene that pulls at anyones heartstrings, something that hasnt been done (for me) since Toy Story 2, and dont act like you dont know what scene Im talking about.

But I know it sounds corny and looks like a kids movie, but I loved Dug the Dog. Maybe its my weakness for dogs but it was all just so cute and funny in any scene he was in. I really thought UP was a good example of what films can be, and how great they can be. Having multiple genres, not adhering to one.

Before this, the movie I raved about for this summer was Star Trek. But they arent movies to be compared. All I can say about UP is that its the first movie that Ive really... ENJOYED seeing. Every part of it was just stellar! I cant wait to see it again

So the new updates of the Macbook are here
cant deny that they dont look nice. but then Apple products always look nice, hell even the trailer for Alone in the Dark looked good, but looks can be deceiving.

Im glad Apple has caught onto the phallic strategy of upgrades. but I cant help but realize that the screen of the new macbook is still smaller than my HP laptop, and this thing was $1000 cheaper, plus $35 for a memory upgrade for the thing.
Also I run Vista and Ubuntu on this thing. I could run OS X if I wanted to, as well.
And I dont have to spend a ton of money or buy from American Apparel, dress like a bearded tosser and act like a blithering little cunt of a douchebag to anyone without a Mac. (thats you Jon, if you ever read this)

So... really, my HP can do anything that I would want to do on the Macbook. It certainly looks better than my HP, though. But to say that is like saying that I won a beauty pageant against Steve Buscemi and Ray Liotta.

But overall, I should say that I like Macs as much as I like PCs. Theres nothing wrong with Macs to make me want to grab my dongles and video cards and head out onto the OS battlefield, thats just ridiculous. The point is Ive learned everything I know about computers my entire life from PCs, and I think its a more practical skill, its all about preference.

The largest criticism against Apple is that their products and services cost far more than theyre worth and that I SWEAR that they manufacture iPods to eventually breakdown at a certain set time after they are purchased. Ive had the same Video iPod since my brother bought one for me (the mac advocate he is) around the time they were new. The thing has broken 4 times since then, and I have never dropped it, ran around outside with it, left it in the sun, anything. I dont get it. And I have fixed it 4 times.

Secondly, I would say that the cult that Apple has surrounded itself with is... well just that, a cult. I'm not one to be offended by a commercial, but the Mac vs. PC ads come off less as "this is our argument as to why Macs are better" and more of "lulz we are HUGE TOOLS"
I see... valid argument, you thick burke

keep in mind, I was still kind of high

When it came to metal, especially the likes of Death/Black Metal, I am usually one that is pretty lost in the dark. I have no real opinion on a lot of it and have no real experience to list for explanations to why I feel a way about the genre. But after seeing Opeth, possibly the most popular metal band in the world, I can say that it changed my mind. Opeth was absolutely staggering, something that I could find hard to put into words. Hell, there was more to it than heavy riffs and other things that were heavy/metal. There was a real talent, and an art to the whole thing. The problem with metal is that most of the fans that follow it religiously are total fucktards and seem to be willing to be different while hanging out with people just like them and conforming to the same asshole thoughts and assumptions as fans of any other genre of music. So they're not very congruous bastards, but they know what they love, and that is hair, spiky things, pale skin, tits, the color black and a shared hatred of soap. While there is nothing wrong with having idols that seem diametrically opposed to looking like anything other than the Swedish part of the Manson family, who were apparently some sort of sub-sect of humans resembling partially shaved bears; not many would seem willing to pay attention to them.

Metal, however, is something that is different. Especially something like Opeth, which I do truly think is one of the more novel musical experiences I have heard in the past couple of years. The others being: A Tribe Called Quest, Kaizers Orchestra and Gogol Bordello. But Mikael of Opeth really is a good example of a musician and a vocalist. Not only does he play the guitar, but also overcomes the horrible hereditary affliction of a ridiculous accent that plagues so many other Swedes. With such a triumph, he is able to sing very well, speak in a many that doesn't sound like a certain chef, and is able to seemingly instantaneously drop his vocal range to, literally, the fifth and seventh circles of hell, respectively. Being in choir for the good majority of my life, I still am baffled as to how somebody could produce something so deep from vocal chords. Not only was it amazing to hear, but the fact that the growling in the songs brings anyone but Mikael Åkerfeldt to mind.

Something else that is worth mentioning is that everyone should go to a concert once in their life where they can literally feel the songs through their body. There is no other feeling like it. Plus, I still retain that Opeth and other metal bands probably have the best drummers and guitarists in the business. To watch the progress of these musicians playing and changing to entirely different tones and other forms of dissonance is simply staggering. The amount of work, and liquor, that must go into having such a great understanding of the instruments is something to be respected. To try and wrap this up, Opeth now joins my list of artists that assure me that music isn't completely shitting all over itself in this day and age. Now I can't really remember what it is that put me off to the genre beforehand. Oh right, Johnny McColumbine with his overweight girlfriend, both whiter than an snowman with a bukkake fetish. Still, I have a new respect for the bands of the genre and look forward to listening to more of them in the future. Particularly Opeth, because I greatly enjoyed their music, and Mikael and his band mates were refreshingly funny and seemed sincere. Not only did they realize the implications for what it meant to be in a metal band, but they didn't seem like the pricks commonly associated with the genre.

So, Opeth is a metal band. Much like any other genre, the majority of the music is a bunch of, to quote the phrase, 'bullshit and chips.' The final question I ask myself is, "Does Opeth belong in this branch of shitty metal and other generally terrible music?"

short answer, no.

long answer, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo