Brad, don't get me started on the "brown-skinned" comment. I can't believe our president knocked down such a scary straw-man there. I won't bother relinking to the transcript.

On an unrelated note, last night I'm in Blockbuster, seconds before it closes, renting a video I'm sure will suck, when I realize I forgot my card. The people at the counter say I can't check anything out without it because "the system is going down" whatever that means.

Yet I walk out minutes later, movie in hand, it turns out to be extremely amusing and everything works out perfectly. Since last Friday my lucky streak seems to be in full swing. All I need now is to magically make a decent amount of money and I'd be set. Just a couple grand would tide me over for a few months. We'll see how that thought progresses.

Until then I'm going to keep rolling the dice, for after all, if you're not playing, you can never win anything at all.