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Warning: anti-Bush political post. For the love of our great country, go see this film. Michael Moore says a lot of stuff, and, to quote Donnie Darko, “I pray that this is merely a work of fiction.” But I know that at least part of it is factual, and I will say that even if 10 percent of the facts in the movie are true, then you have every reason not to vote for President Bush in the November election. God knows he has the power to win it, and for that very reason we must not vote for him. I’ll say one thing more:

I was sitting in the car with my father after seeing the movie. I asked him what we do if Bush gets reelected. I said, he could get out of control.

“He’s already out of control.” he replied, which of course, is true.

And I can’t finish this conversation, because I just realized that if I publish what I was about to write, I could get labeled as a terrorist and Bad Things could happen. And that is one more reason. Please, if you trust that I am a rational intelligent thinking person, incapable of subversion and brainwash (and I am), trust me. We must vote for Kerry. Not nader. Not anyone else. Kerry. Because, frankly, I don’t care what Nader has to say about our party system, a vote for anyone but Kerry is a vote for Bush.

This is not an extremist view. I am not being “too serious.” I am not blowing this out of proportion. Please watch the film, especially if you are planning on voting for Bush. I give you this argument: I, a non-christian, saw The Passion of Christ. You, if non-democrat, have the same obligation to see F9/11.

Rational Addendum: I know that F9/11 is a conglomeration of truths misleading the viewer into thinking there is a big conspiracy — we have to remember that we’re not getting Bush out of office because of anything like that — his views on the environment, economics, terrorism, oil, and mostly the war in Iraq are fundamentally wrong, conspiracy or not.

They Might Be Giants has done a great thing — they have made all of their (recent) albums available for purchase and download without DRM. As in, as non-restrictive mp3s. 256 kilobit LAME encoded mp3s. Now, I’m hesitant to pay anything for Apple’s 128kbps AAC iTunes songs (and I haven’t yet, and I’ve told them why many times), but I’ll jump at a chance to download great music for the same price at very high quality. Their latest single you may know from a certain flash movie, and it’s a great song worthy of a download. Especially for only 99 cents. And all the cash goes directly to the band — no record company or popular music store in between. It’s just good music and people being smart about it. Go take a look.