1. If I was going to die in an auto crash, this would be an awesome song to go out on.

2. That’s a little over-dramatic, don’t you think?

3. If I was watching a movie of a guy driving and this song was playing and then he died, I would say, “man, that was really pretty lame”

4. Do you suppose there is some counter-acting force, a spirit in the sky, if you will, that might protect me from dying in a fiery auto crash while listening to this song, not because it’s about Jesus, but because that would just be too cheesy?

About that time, the song ended.  But meanwhile, I was also listening to the lyrics.  Apparently my irony-meter is tuned up a little better than it used to be, because it never occurred to me before that this might have not been entirely a song of praise, but rather a little dig at religion:

“Never been a sinner

I never sinned

I got a friend in Jesus

So you know that when I die

He’s gonna set me up with The spirit in the sky”

Seems kind of obvious now, though.  And actually makes the song even more awesome.  Especially since the guy that wrote it is Jewish.

In perhaps an unrelated matter, I pose the following question to the group that’s been bothering me lately:

Are “Fast Car” and “We are young” musical matter/anti-matter?  Would the universe implode if Tracy Chapman and Fun played a song together?

A strong spring storm, however, delayed the flight and I missed the fact that it was rescheduled for today! Oh well, at least I’ll get to see it everytime I ride down the west side bike path…

2) When the Swedish Minister of Culture cut into a cake shaped like a racist caricature of a black woman, it wasn’t an “OMG! what were those Swedes thinking?” moment but a bit of brilliant social commentary through performance art.

Let me say that I don’t think that healthcare should necessarily be provided by one’s employer, but it’s preferable to finding insurance on one’s own. As an individual consumer of health care, one’s health care costs would be driven be the state of one’s health. If you get sick, then your costs are going to go up.

At least in a health care program run through one’s employer, an employee is part of a pool where the lower health care costs of healthier workers help subsidize the higher costs of the more sickly employees not to mention that the individuals running my company’s plan are much more skilled at purchasing health care insurance than I am or even care to be.

Conservative ideologues and business owners may love Romeny’s proposal, but does he really want to risk alienating the hundreds of millions of Americans who rely on their jobs for their health insurance and prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t?

On Saturday, the officials on the ice didn’t notice that there was a second puck in the netting of the Rangers’ goal when they put another puck into play. Naturally, hilarity ensued…

via xkcd