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Why am I so stupidly addicted to Shirt.woot? I mean, I love the shirt.woots overall (there are probably 6 or 7 that I bought and wear regularly), but the random shirt.woot gets me every time. In all fairness, I guess I am addicted to woot and their super cheap SD/Micro SD memory cards, because for some reason I buy 3 of them whenever they’re up (and Laura yells at me every time).

I guess it’s better than being addicted to cocaine or meth, but I just can’t figure out why I am a sucker for $7.00 mystery shirts. I have picked up the random shirt.woot three times now (with a fourth on the way), and ordered the maximum of 3 shirts each time. So that ’s a grand total of 12 random shirts. In terms of the shirts themselves, I’m batting about .500 pending this week’s order. I have had one really great set of 3, one lame set of 3, and one set with two good ones and a lame one.

I’ll have to take a look at the shirt.woots that I have so far and post some of the ones that I really like.

What is it about a random shirt that hooks me in every time? Is it the uncertainty of not knowing what you’re going to get or how great/terrible they’re going to be? Is it the high hopes of getting a neat shirt that you wanted but missed the first time around? Am I just that much of a total dork?

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Well, I guess I answered my own question there, didn’t I.

So the general consensus is that Miss California did not win the Miss USA competition because when asked about gay marriage by Perez Hilton, she basically said that she believes that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m not too concerned with who won a beauty pageant, however if that’s really the reason why she didn’t win I think it’s pretty much bullshit. There are a couple of things that need to be taken into consideration here:

1) She is a stupid kid. I say that not to insult her intelligence, but really to say that she’s probably in her late teens and hasn’t been an adult long enough to form her own opinions about anything. You learn alot about yourself in your early twenties, and that’s the first time that many people really start thinking for themselves and evaluating all of the bullshit things that they have been taught by parents, teachers, and clergymen.

2) Like it or not, every one of us has the right to have and express opinions and beliefs. While I vehemently disagree with what she said, I absolutely think it’s great that she was able to answer the question honestly. She has the right to her own opinion, even if that opinion is grossly prejudiced and sets the clock on human rights back thirty or more years.

What happened here, in my opinion, is someone not winning what is ultimately a beauty contest because of a question about opinion. It’s kind of like a priest being on that panel and asking the girls if they are catholic, and then immediately rating all the “no” girls as a 4. Except instead of a catholic priest, it is a bitter internet-ordained minister living in his mothers basement.

However, None of that is important. The really important thing here, and the thing we should all be asking ourselves and soul searching about, is this:

When did that fruitcake Perez Hilton become a significant enough part of our society that he is judging a beauty contest with Donald Trump? For Chrissakes, all the guy does is run a blog. It’s not even a good blog. He posts pictures of celebrities, and the uses microsoft paint to draw genitals on them, or write SLUT in big letters, or call them fat whores. Why do we care what he thinks at all? The self proclaimed “queen of all media” is a self important douchebag. Why are we paying attention to him?

Next year the people at Miss USA need to make some major improvements to their judge panel. Maybe those muppets from Crank Yankers are available.