That part in the middle got me worked up

Spent all afternoon doing positive chorish things like cleaning up the giant sprawling mass of laundry that occupied my bedroom, and planning recruiting efforts for the Press.

Went a little stir crazy at one point between bouts of productivity. It's too cold in the world. There need to be more places like the mall where you can go and walk around a lot in them but they are heated. Cuz I can't just go to the mall every day and walk around in it aimlessly. That's sick.

I paced in the apartment and tossed a softball into the glove my Dad got me for Chrimmastime. Only amuses for so long.

Last night I stumbled upon a PR piece from UCLA aboot a polisci prof who was publishing a study demonstrating (it was "found") the evidence of bias (they feel comfortable assuming their audience knows in advance it is liberal bias) in the media. The PR piece is written in a way to totally appeal to lazy journos who will then parrot their BS bottom-lining. They made a big effort to appear impartial and fair, not taking any funding from anybody and recruiting students halfsies Dem / Rep (I got news for you clowns, independants and nonvoters easily outnumber them), but they had all kinds of glaring methodological problems right under the surface. The most outrageous example is the researcher's assumption that the average member of congress (adjusting for the Senate's overrepresentation of low population states) represents the political view of the average American, which is taken as the baseline dividing liberal and conservative. That's wicked retahded for so many reasons I'm not going to get into them all. The biggest problem with that assumption is that if there is a media bias, which is what they're trying to prove to begin with, wouldn't that skew who ends up elected to define the average politician? And, then, again, with most people not voting, the elected are a godawful measure of the politics of the citizenry. Anyway, I got really pissed about it, and I'm getting mad again just thinking about it now. I might write a Press article on it later. But I want to read the actual study first, not just the university puff piece.

Also, I own one single solitary sock with a nike swoosh on the neck. How does that happen?