Let's try something, just for fun.

Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.

Thank you for your patience.

Once again, I find myself admiring Howard Stern. In case you haven't been following the news, he got cut from every Clear Channel station that had been syndicating his show. The Clear Channel bosses claimed that they were "shocked, shocked!" at the indecency he had spewed over the airwaves on a recent program in February. But according to people who tune in to such things, his program last month featured no content that was any more indecent than stuff he's regularly aired over the past 10 years.

They theorize that the real reason for the decision is that just a few weeks ago, he had a change of heart about George W Bush, and began to viciously criticize the President, who just happens to be the patron darling of Clear Channel Media. That was a change.

It's been several years since I last heard a broadcast of the Howard Stern show. For a while, his show was carried every morning on what was then 96.5 The Peak. I listened to it every now and then, but didn't find it all that funny, especially in comparison to some of the Howard Stern hilarity I had found over the Internet from shows he had broadcast years ago, or his hugely funny movie Private Parts.

I'm not sure whether this should be attributed to the quality of Stern's show going downhill, or whether it was because people had taken only the 10 funniest broadcasts he had had over the span of several early years, and posted them online. Maybe most of the time, from day to day, it was never all that good to begin with.

Regardless of whether his show is good, or whether it sucks, or whether he's a wise man or an idiot, I find it inspiring to finally see some people standing up for free speech. It's about time somebody exposed the FCC's increasingly repressive speech code for the empty power grab that it is. When corrupt officials try to mask their tyranny in the guise of protecting the "public good", what better way for the public to respond than to say, "I don't know what 'public good' you're talking about, but it sure isn't what this public wants."

It's time to send the hypocritical republicans in Washington packing. They who used to talk about how much they wanted to get rid of the "nanny state" (when it was convenient for them to say so), have been going much farther to aid its advance than Bill Clinton ever did. (Not that he was any angel either.)

Speaking of Angel, last night, I got into watching a bunch of episodes Jaeger had burned from Season 4. Oooh, that show is addictive. When my eyes could barely stay open any longer, I had to pull myself away after episode 4. But even then, as the end credits started, I was damn tempted to try to keep myself awake for another one.

Now, here I sit, munching away gingerly on a bowl of ramen, and pondering the unsavory possibility of a Supreme Court consisting of justices appointed by Bush, and how such a court might rule if another clone of the CDA were to be passed a few years from now. I hope I'm never here to see such a day.

Might it be a good idea to start planning a possible escape to a more free country, on the contingency that Bush gets in for a second term? Such a reaction still seems like it might a bit extreme right now. Who really wants to leave their home? I guess that's why so many Jews stayed in Germany in the 1930's, even if they might have been able to get out if they had acted early.

Oh well. Time to try and think more positive toughts. I like the thought of tweaking my brain waves. Yesterday, I ran it for a while using "Focus 21 - alternate energy systems, bridge into worlds with non-human entities." After soaking it in for a while, I started getting shivers, like goosebumps down my back. Then I started getting really restless, and I turned it off and put some music on instead.

Now I'm testing it with "Focus 27 - the park, a way-station, a place of high creativity, a stepping stone to areas beyond." Having it on for a couple minutes, I don't notice any effects yet. We'll see after an hour or so.

On the surface, it all sounds like a bunch of wierd new age crap, but the scientific basis seems vaguely plausable enough to make it worth trying.

Anyway, having gotten a very curt and unhelpful email response back from the client who supposedly considers this thing I'm working to be an urgent matter, I think I'll go back to doing a little more poking and prodding at the project from hell.