i think if mary poppins had been released in the modern day, disney would be sued for encouraging drug use in minors. "just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down..."
i can just see some idiot kid sitting in the bathroom with a pound of sugar, overdosing on mom and dad's meds, and mom and dad suing disney.
just a random cynical thought for the day.

google has digitized life magazine's photo archives going back to the 1860's. check it out.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

the best part of waking up
is chicken pot pie in your cup.

wow. poor georgie. his approval rating is the lowest ever recorded since the ratings were first started. 76% of people disapprove of him, with nixon in second place at 66% when he resigned after watergate.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/bush.transition.poll/index.html

i've been reading the bbc to see what people outside the US think of obama's win, and surprisingly they didn't really go into how big a deal it is for us to have a black president. they finally wrote one though:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7710449.stm

i feel like it’s ok to be an american for the first time in a long time. and maybe i won't get spit on as much when i travel.

the japanese really go the extra mile when it comes to safety simulations. they built a rhino costume to use for practicing escaped rhino drills at a zoo. the video is hilarious, especially when they hit the thing with a tranq gun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgHQfxT7ImI