If there is a latin word for Chutzpuh, Pope John Paul II should be using it to descibe current president George W. Bush's efforts to get the Vatican to support the Republicans in the upcoming election. According to the Vatican officials, when Bush went to see the Pope in Rome last June, the president ' Complained that the U.S. bishops were not being vocal enough in supporting Bush on social issues like gay marriage and abortion'. Bush asked the pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodan...

Long befor ethe Blair Witch Project made its way into theaters with the novel idea of claiming that the movie was real, there was the Texas Chainsaw Massacure. This is the story of a group of teenages that made the wrong move of hanging out in the wrong place. In the new movie, the mistake was picking up a hitch hiker that narrowly escaped from a crazy family. We are all familiar with Leatherface, the villian of this movie. It is interesting to note that the myht of what happened in Texas...

" The release target date for the next generation console is 2005, early 2006," said a Nintendo sourse. Not so, said Nintendo to reporters. Their system will be delivered when the other systems are. This is the problem with Nintendo. Back in the pre-dawn of the videogame system, they were the leader. Regardless of any other system out there that was brought into the console arena, the people at Nintendo kept winning and reaping the rewards. Along with the accolades that come from being the...

Sony beat Microsoft to the console punch last time. Will they make the same mistake this time? With a third generation system on the way, it will be interesting to see where Microsoft, the junior of the three main systems war, will take their system. Rumors flying left and right, with Microsoft hoping to take a lead this time. " I don't care if this system see black the first time around, we just need to get our name out there," was quoted Bill Gates on the release of the system. For a...

Tiawan, May, 2003 - the next generation console, the Playstation 3, is expected to hit the store shelves sometime in 2004.The goal of the systme is to make it about 200 times faster utilizing a new grid technology. The use of this tecnology will, in theory, make the PS3 1000 times faster than the PS 2. What will that achieve? We'll have to wait until next year to find out. The joint effort of Sony, IBM, and Toshiba is behind the new chipset for the console. The new supercomputer chip, whi...

As many of you know, Michael Jackson is in the middle of what will be the biggest battle of his life. The 45 year old Jackson is once again in the butcher's block for child molestation. The case is being tried and as we speak, is in the middle of being judged. For those of you that don't know, another boy came forward with alledged child molestation charges against the 'king' of pop music and since then, the heat has been on. Police in Santa Barbara had raided the Neverland Ranch as p...

I went to a local computer store with one simple question in mind: " When is Half-Life 2 going to be released?" You see, back in the day, it was supposed to be released in March. Hell, I have a coupon I got with my 9800 ATI videocard that gets me a free copy. March came and went, and then it was May. Then July. Then September. Now, apparently, it will be released in November, and that is supposed to be the final release, no foolin, praise godand chunky peanut butter. But will it? I t...

I found this chatroom that caters to the type of people that I want to talk to, and I wish there was a ban feature. I was chatting in a gay chatroom, having a great time for once, when some loser kid from austrialia come in to tell us, in his borken spelling, that " all gays must die and he was going to do it." I asked how, and he said that he was going to put a bullet right between my eyes. I don't think I have ever been directly threatened because of my sexual orientation. Especially ...

I would like to point out, before you read the body of this article, I do not side with the people in this case. I think that it is interesting that since hte time of the case and the media uprise of pulbicity on the release from prison of Mary Kay Latourneau, that the issue has come full circle and came back with a vengence. The television tells me that jsut a couple of days after her release, Mary Kay Latourneau, has hooked back up with the boy that got her put into jail in the first pla...

Like 2.7 million people in the last couple weeks, I the household I live in has embraced the Sims 2. Were it not bad enough that The Sims was a terribly addictive game in its own right, the Sims 2 is jsut a million times bigger. Since there are four people in the house, and at the moment only 2 computers that can handle it, the playing time has been stagnant. People play when they get home, when others go off to work, or fight over how much time has been used. The first day, my roomate ...

One of the things that I miss about living in a big city is not the noise, or the people, or anything like that. It is the ability to go see a movie when it opens in the theaters. The theaters in my new town leave something to be desired. For instance, the local theater here just got Hero and THe Princess Diaries 2. The second week I got here, Alien Vs. Preditor was here. So, any chance of seeing Resident Evil: Apocolypse on opening night was dead in the water. I had planned to see it wit...

I wish I had a drink right now. It is really late, and my bed called me a long time ago. When my light was turned off, and the pillow excepted my head for dream ready position, my mind would not shut down. My own mind kept calling me a loser. How is that for not so sane? I used to get that a lot back in the days when my wayward teenage years were coming to a end and the pressures of the real world started closing in. I ended up paying for my rent while in school by being a relief DJ ...

When I moved, 23 days ago, I was insistant that I was on some great adventure. I was finally getting out of a city that did nothing for me anymore, and I was off to explore a strange new world. Now, I wonder. I got into two fights with one of my roomates today over the computer. First, let me explain. I sleep in a room with two computers and a laptop. Until I arrived, it was a spare room that people could come and go as they please. One roomate, well, he likes to sit in front of hi...

Almost seven years ago, I got introduced to a game that changed my life for quite some time. At hte time, there was only one game like it, and that was Ultima: Online. Tha game sucked, so I tried this new one tht me and a friend got into the beta for. Everquest was something that had never really been around before. With the beta access, i picked one of the test servers and tried it out. WOW. I tried it at 6 pm on a Friday night after work and got off the computer at 7 am on Sunday. I was ...

I read a quote that a friend showed me the other week a quote from rapper and famous Public Enemy frontman, Chuck D: " The internet is color blind!" Is that so? Another friend was telling me about this article that he read in Playboy about race-bending. The subject had to do with a white boy going onto the internet to a room for the up and coming rap community. It was interesting to see and read, after looking at the article itself (Playboy really does have good articles) that the peopl...