Observations and Queries: 4

• I know that the most popular reasons for going to war and killing a bunch of people are disagreements about religion, political affiliation, and ethnicity (to name a few). But let's consider some disagreements that lead to war that make a lot more sense: those who wash their hands when leaving the restroom and those who don't, those who use their blinkers while driving and those who don't, those who like the band Journey and those who don't, ugly people versus pretty people (that would be more controversial than religion!), etc. Surely there are better reasons to vehemently disagree with someone to the point that we go to war than how someone believes or where they want to believe it.
• If your parents were ugly, you're probably not (sarcasm doesn't transfer through the written word very well).
• I'm sorry, but doesn't the unrest in the middle east seem like two stupid brothers fighting? "You punched me so I'm going to kick you." "Oh yeah, since you kicked me I'm going to shoot you with my BB gun." "Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to burn your baseball card collection, jerk-weed." Not to make light of a serious situation, but it's really getting to be annoying.
• Apparently Paris Hilton recently declared, "Skinny people look gross." When skinny people heard that they replied, "Well we think that people who are as smart as a brick and look like a flamingo are gross." Paris got really mad.
• President Bush was recently caught swearing at a dinner-conference with English Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here's some of that conversation: "TB, I'll tell you what, I [bleepin'] hate broccoli. It's like a [bleepin'] miniture tree. Look at it. Tony, [bleepin'] look at it!!! Funny ain't it? Hey, look at Putin over there--doesn't he look like a [bleepin'] zombie? I [bleepin'] hate zombies. They freak me right [bleepin'] out."
• I don't know about you, but I really care what Angelina Jolie recently said about motherhood. (What about that, could you catch the sarcasm on that one?)