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I hope you caught the Daily Show tonight for a look at what I wish more blowhard moralists would be like. An evangelical Christian, Jim Wallis, was on promoting his book "God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" which sounds like an excellent read. He asks the question I always wanted answered: Since when was Jesus pro-war, pro-rich and pro-Republican? Now, I doubt he'd be a Democrat, but honestly, that's the point. While most people here won't have this problem, I figure I should say it anyway: If you think you have some sort of moral obligation to vote for a certain political party, you're in a lot of trouble. Normally, I'd be somewhat ok with that on the whole, but the problem is you're dragging me and actually most of the planet into your scarily misguided world.

You wouldn't be able to tell by reading aC4H lately, but I am really excited about today's Pats/Colts game. And part of that excitement is fear. This game's going to be tough, and I don't know what to expect at all. Let's just hope that Bill Belichick has been current on the rent for that other place he lives: inside Peyton Manning's head. Whoever wins this game has to be the favorite for the Superbowl (especially after the Steelers all but lost (twice!) to the Jets yesterday). Man, this is some good football this year.

What makes someone make a non-constructive, misspelled and pointless comment on a ten month old blog entry? I mean, really? I think that's even worse than the garbage that piled up in this post.

1. What percentage of the land use in the average American town is devoted to the automobile? 2. What is the average annual cost of owning and operating a car? 3. What is the most popular car? Answer for yourself then look below the fold. 1. As high as 65% for Los Angeles, 40-55% for other places. Figures include: parking garages, residential garages and driveways, parking lots, street system, car dealerships, car repair facilities, car junk yards, impound lots, etc. 2. Figures vary but $7,000/year is a good average. Cost includes depreciation, maintenance, gas, insurance, etc. A two income family could easily save enough to buy a home if they could get by with one car. 3. Toy cars. We program kids from an early age to want/expect their own vehicle. The above was paraphrased from a listserv I belong to. To me, it's a scandal. How much of our civic soul have we given over to the automobile without even realizing it. I could make a case for most of our societal ills being not the fault of fast food or violent video games or declining church attendance, but as a result of our indentured servitude to a car-dependent world. I know it's hard to imagine, but it doesn't have to be this way. You don't even have to give up your car (I even love to drive when my car doesn't have a giant hole in an exhaust pipe, which, you know, it has right now). We're slaves, man. Slaaaaves!!

and the first order of business is to declare: I LOVE CRANSTON!

First, the infamous crossing guards are history.

Next, in true Cranston union-ass-licking-style, we're selling a school to the Laborers International Union of North America. And if thats not enough to convince you that Cranston is clearly the most respectable community in Rhode Island... A Cranston school committee member pretended that his 8-year-old daughter had leukemia and made $20,000 in donations.

Oops, sorry. If I read the second link to the Ayn Rand Institute in the previous post, I would have noticed that it had nothing to do with foreign aid or disaster relief at all. I assume Mr. Sucher meant to link the same article I did. I guess no one here noticed either, which is good (no one noticed my goof) and bad (I link these things for a reason, yo). If you did take the time to read that misplaced link, though, maybe this nugget jumped out at you:

When reason is categorically abandoned, people can deal with one another only by force. People who accept reason as their sole means of knowledge can settle differences by persuasion; the one with facts and logic on his side will prevail. But if faith--i.e., the embrace of beliefs contrary to reason--is one's ruling principle, there is no peaceful way to resolve conflicts. There can be no appeal to facts, no logic, no rational arguments--there can be only the insistence that some non-provable belief be accepted. And what could back up that insistence other than fists or guns--or airplanes smashing into buildings?

In light of the "museum" opened recently by creationists (yes, more of the excellent Digby's blog), the above quoted is a little too scarily close to home. If I could remember reading Rawls a little better, I'm sure I'd have an excellent quote about how no matter how swell your God is, we really shouldn't be making it mandatory that every citizen live their lives solely under His or Her authority. For now you just get that muddled sentence and a reminder to read the links! You never know what you'll get (apparently I don't know what you'll get sometimes, either!)

Alright, who wants to do this with me? So much fun, fun, fun.

As David Sucher, of the linkable-if-only-the-urblog-survived-host-transfer(-and-neglect) City Comforts Blog, so aptly noted, this is "why libertarians have little political impact:"

Don't send tax dollars to help tsunami victims... Every dollar that the government hands out as foreign aid has to be extorted from an American taxpayer first. Year after year, for decades, the government has forced American taxpayers to provide foreign aid to the victims of every type of natural or man-made disaster: from the Marshall Plan to reconstruct a war-ravaged Europe, to the billions recently promised to fight AIDS in Africa, to the countless amounts spent to help the victims of earthquakes, fires and floods -- from South America to Asia.

That was in today's ProJo. David was linking another Randian saying something similar, which just amplifies the point. Government and private aid together won't bring back the thousands of human beings who lost their lives, but every dollar that goes to alleviating suffering in Asia is worth it. Stingy libertarians and compassionate conservatives can suck it. (read that last link. Seriously)

Via the for-some-reason-never-linked-here Woneffe blog, Providence Monthly has written up a trio of Rhody weblogs. Guess which Cry for Help wasn't there? That's right, this Cry for Help. What part of "Rhode Island's premier blog destination" do people not understand?! Just because I pretty much took the last month off?! Oh well. If I wanted fame and fortune maybe I'd link other sites more. Or post on other sites more. Or post here more. Or play the lottery.

Bill Reynolds style: The Pats just went 14-2 the year after winning the Superbowl. That's pretty incredible. I can actually feel myself becoming spoiled rotten with New England's incredible sporting run (even the Bruins are tied for first! (I'm not a big hockey fan)). Belichick's boys are two wins away from another trip to the big game, and I like their chances. Long Trail IPA is one of the best India Pale Ales I've found at the local liquor store. Pick up a six pack if you dig the bitter taste of IPAs. I'm learning to play the guitar. My fingers are neither dexterous nor long, so it's slow going. My best friend happens to be amazing on a six string, so I can't even fool myself into thinking I'm getting good. We have new crabs for debuting on Fish Stuff Friday! We also have something of a slime algae problem, which will not be featured on A Cry for Help. That anti-spam Q is absolutely amazing. Not one spam yet. Email, that's another story. My bloglines notifier says I have 574 new blog entries to read. Steve, James, David G, I get to you guys every day, but everyone else posts too much. I really want to read this blog but I'm just not on the net enough. Oh, TiVo, thank you for all the cartoons and Twilight Zone episodes! Also, Netflix, I appreciate you getting Napolean Dynamite out to me so quickly. Sweet. I still can't believe the Red Sox won the World Series. I mean, that didn't really happen, did it?

Since I blasted him the other day, let me take a second to applaud the president for now making a serious commitment to aiding tsunami victims. And putting Presidents Bush Sr. and Big Dog on point is exactly the sort of symbolic "gesture" that I said was so important (especially compared to clearing brush). On the micro level, I like to think what a small contribution from every person can do. If every adult American kicked in $10, we'd scrounge up collectively more than a billion dollars. I can do $10. I bet you can too (and Sandra Bullock's covered more than a few people's share). Search the couch cushions, roll some change. We could be looking at a defining moment in international relations, and hopefully a model of a more compassionate, interconnected world. If that's something we can realize after the shock and awe of nature's amoral fury, then we can take some solace in tragedy.

Happy New Years Suckers!!!! i just got home, it's 3:30 am, my neighbors downstairs are having a loud party, it's crazy!!!! I saw The Flaming Lips and Wilco tonight at Madison Square Garden, and it ... was ... awesome!!! oh snap! happy new year... my resolution is to post more, also expect some posts from my republican in name only roomate Pat... SUCKERS!!!!!!!!! i just threw up in my mouth...