looks like somebody is finally trying to preserve some of the 'old fashioned' names once given to ampetheaters, ballparks and stadiums. sure, they don't need to exercise any creativity when naming them anymore. it's easy. just call it verizonpacdunkintargetpepsi. i happen to find the dunkin' donuts center amusing. a new stadium is being built at candlestick point, and a county supervisor proposed that 'candlestick' be kept as part of the name. bravo! it's about time. as long as they don't call it verizon wireless candlestick (a wireless candlestick? huh?) i think it's a positive step.
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state of the union address tonight. i hope you all have large objects ready to pitch at your tv screen as bush outlines his proposals using terrible grammar while making embarrassing speech snafus. today on 'talk of the nation' they asked listeners to call or email in suggestions of what they'd like to hear tonight. there were many articulate, eloquent and aware people calling in with radical ideas. how i wish they weren't considered radical, though. at the end of the segment they put together a mock SOTU address. you can listen to it if you'd like. words we will never hear out of bush's mouth, but we can dream. pieces of the mock speech that left me nodding, smiling, and hoping...

by the end of the decade this nation will convert from a petroleum based economy to one based on clean and abundant hydrogen

funding will be cut from missile defense and diverted to healthcare

government will tell the truth

we must be respectful of our position in the global environment

members of the government must disclose and return any funding they have received from corporate america

we will not involve ourselves in other countries' affairs unless invited on a mission of peace or made to by an act of war

oh, wouldn't it be nice...if even one of these things made it's way into bush's speech i would...i would...oh, i don't know what i'd do. it doesn't matter, unfortunately. unless they are drinking slushies and going skiing in hell, it ain't gonna happen.