Burning Smurfs, Freeh, and Evil Yoko

The UN has succeeded where Gargamel and Azrael never could. (The picture alone makes clicking this link worth your while). I’m not even quite sure how to respond to this. It is so incredibly absurd, I’m just speechless.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/11/unicef.smurfs.ap/index.html

Here is an interesting article which discusses Louis Freeh (Former FBI director) and his ongoing critiques of the Clintons.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/10/freeh.clinton/index.html

To me, a great portion of what Freeh has to say for himself and his experiences spanning the Clinton and Bush administrations sound like a load of crap. Freeh got caught up extensively investigating the man who appointed him (Clinton). Now the suggestion is made that he could not dedicate himself and the bureau to the more important tasks (Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations) in light of this. Contrary to what he claims people who work with him say his investigations were redundant. Additionally I would think national security would be a bit more important than Bill’s character flaws, but perhaps I’m crazy.

Yoko is at it again.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/10/showbuzz/index.html#0

What venomous woman! Can’t she just play nice for a change? Anyway in this little tidbit of entertainment news she trash talks McCartney’s song writing skills in a round about way. My opinion on her little quote by the way is such: McCartney wrote pop songs; Lennon wrote quirky eclectic tunes which were often protest songs or abstract. While his post-Beatles material is undoubtedly more accessible, the Beatles songs he helmed (save Revolution, and Come Together) for the most part weren’t the pop anthems like McCartney wrote. Lennon was generally an insecure person likely rooted in a very unhappy childhood. McCartney and Lennon I think are genuinely held to be equally good songsmiths. (And I personally believe George Harrison is just as good and doesn’t get the respect he deserves.) They have different styles, and a person may prefer one to the other, however the Beatles were made great by the collaboration and they both had successful post Beatles efforts as well.

McCartney’s new album is getting rave reviews. Music critics are claiming it is the best work since RAM. I’ve listened to some samples, it is formulaic but it is definitely a higher caliber than recent efforts