J.J. Jackson, one of the original five MTV VJ's died Wednesday while driving home. I had met him only recently, and he was a great guy, friendly, grinning, laughing, and loving music, as always... he was also a part of my past, a part of MTV, a person who somehow changed my life just by hosting music videos and making the eighties that much more interesting. MTV went off like a bomb in my life, it made music that much more fun, it gave my generation an initial point of rebellion because adults couldn't understand it, even when they were weened on rock n' roll themselves ("New wave what? they thought), it became corporate and made us hate it, it stayed young and we got old, but it has always been there, and J.J. was one of the reasons it succeeded... J.J. , wherever you are, you made a contribution to my life and for that I will always be grateful.

I would just like to congratulate the new Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, on not only his election, but his willingness to tell the truth about President Bush and the lying Neocons who now control the government here in the US. Thank you sir, I hope you have a successful and fruitful term of office. Hopefully in November the American people will rise with one voice and get rid of the problem we all can't seem to get enough of... that whacky Commander in Thief, President George Dubya Bush. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. ONE TERM, YOU'RE DONE!!!

Today bombs tore through the transit system in the city of my birth. Today over 190 of those who share half my blood spilled theirs and died by merely going to work, or to run errands, or by just living life. Today the terrorists claimed responsibility for the cowardly act, and called it retaliation for a war we should never have begun. Today the leader of my country, a man whose lies led to that war, insists that the world is now safer because of the solid leadership he showed in starting the war. Tell me that tomorrow Mr. President, we’re a little too busy safely mourning our dead today.