Been a while since I've posted here. I'll try to keep this updated more regularly.

I've been listening to the leaked "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", the upcoming new album by U2.

MINDBLOWING.

This album will go down as U2's best work since "The Joshua Tree", and perhaps - PERHAPS - is their best album of their entire masterful career. Yes, its that good. "City of Blinding Lights", track 5 on the album, is one of the best songs they've ever written. The entire album is of such astonishingly high quality that you forget its being released in a year that's seen a remarkable amount of highly mediocre mainstream music being peddled, including disposable pop lip-syncers and "teen angst" flavor of the month.

In other news, Halo 2 hits stores tomorrow night (Tuesday morning) at 12:01 AM. Haven't decided if I'll pick it up then, or after class on Tuesday, but I will be tearing it up over XBox Live Tuesday night and well into the rest of the week. Life is good.


Oh yeah, and thank God that the presidential campaign is over. While I voted for John Kerry, believing he brings a far greater foreign policy presence to the White House, I must say Bush's tax reforms and Social Security changes sound pretty good. Americans have simply had to endure too much over the past couple of years - sure, the Janet Jackson fiasco wasn't as huge of a deal as everyone seemed to think it was, but it was the icing on the cake after such utter travesties as trying to take "Under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

While the Democrats paid the price for their guilt by association for political misfirings like the aforementioned Pledge debacle, they could very easily be back in control as early as 2008, if they bring out their best folks - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with the latter being a particularly intriguing candidate. I believe both are smart enough to bring the Democratic party out of the left-wing nuthouse and back toward the center enough to be serious contenders in the next election cycle. John McCain, who the Republicans may counter with, would also be a great candidate.

Enough about 2008. I'm looking forward to seeing how much progress Bush can make over the next four years, and am just happy there's some resolution to all this political infighting...for now.