John Stossel Has A Point

Private competitors innovate or die. Government workers do what they did last year.

Every Little Thing They Do Is Average

The Police show in Dallas was amazingly just ok. I wasn't moved by it like I was with U2, Coldplay or (sadly) even Van Halen.

There were interesting anticlimactic ostensibly throat-saving down-mods at the end of a few songs. Sting forgot the third verse for Don't Suck So Close To Me (that's what Stewart calls it) nearly causing a colossal train wreck. While his voice was in unprecedented excellent shape, Sting chickened out of singing a few signature high notes. He did however seemingly SCREAM high improvs & audience participation bits (one of which was severely plagiarized from Under a Blood Red Sky-era U2).

The highlight: Stewart's yummy orchestral percussion on Walking in Your Footsteps & Wrapped Around Your Finger (and his subsequent throwing mallets while scrambling to the drum kit just in time to hit each flawless downbeat).

Sting kept shooting Stewart dirty looks when Stewart would play over-the-bar drum fills on (some song... the title escapes me).

The verdict: Stay home. Watch the dvd instead. Sting has plenty of money (including nearly $200 of mine). He doesn't need yours. :)

Reasons I won't buy an iPhone (Logic vs Lust)

• It's a Phone and an iPod. I use my iPod when I run and when I'm going to sleep in a hotel. I don't want my iPod to ring in either of these situations.
• I keep my phone in my pocket; it's going to get scratched, sat on, dropped and generally beat up. I'll subject my carrier subsidized cheap phone to that, thanks.
• Look at the first generation iPod versus the later models. iPhone 2.0 is where it's at. I'm personally waiting for 3G.
• It's going to cost $600. That's almost half a MacBook Pro. That's and XBox 360 plus an iPod. That's just shy of a 37" HDTV. That's 30 Lava Lamps.
  
• Oh yeah... I pretty much hate phones in general. Text is where it's at. I don't need to spend $600 to text.