NPR's Fresh Air has a nice interview with Bill Moyers, one of the few great journalists remaining in America. I know I've been linking to a lot of NPR stories lately, but this one is definitely worth your time. In it Moyers talks about the failure of the mainstream media to scrutinize the federal government's claims leading up to the Iraq war.

My favorite quote:

Splitting the difference between two opinions does not get you to the truth. It gets you to another opinion.

In other words, forget the debate over conservative, liberal, or moderate biases. We need media that have a bias toward the truth.

I was about to email Justin the details of our next show, but I figured I should just put them up here so all of you can read about it and hopefully attend (if you are in the area). From our Events page:

May 5th, 2007 5-7 PM

Writer & Paravell

Songs for Speech: A live concert event to benefit:

* The Center for Children who Stutter
* The Speech and Hearing Clinic at CSUF
* NSSLHA(National Student Speech and Language Hearing Association)

At Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union Building
2555 E. Nutwood Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92831
$10 @ the door

Yeah, Phil and I have been busy with lots of different stuff lately. That's probably one of the reasons I haven't been posting as much. Also, things have been pretty busy as far as schoolwork goes. CBEST scores are still a couple weeks away. I also have been playing a trial of Vanguard, which I really dig. I think they still have some bugs and stuff to work out, but that's pretty typical of new MMO's. If my financial situation was a bit better, I would probably buy it. But most of my free time has been spent at Phil's either watching Alias or working on our various projects. Hopefully we're moving closer to our ultimate dream of doing pop.vox full time. Some day.....

So the Superior Court isn't able to track well when women change their names. They send summonses based on your voting registration, right? Well, the past few elections, my mom has told me that I'm still showing up on the list at my old polling place, where my parents still vote. Yet I also show up on the list at my new polling place. If I really wanted to, I could vote twice.

I have already received a summons and served jury duty under my new name at my new address. Yet, the court recently sent a summons to my old name at my old address. My parents gave it to me. Now I could have just thrown it away and said, "Hey, I'm not at that address, so I could pretend my parents just throw away any mail being sent to me," but, being a good citizen, I called in to let them know they had a glitch in the system. The guy says no problem and tells me to mail back the summons and write that I've already served under my new name. I even listed my new name and new address.

Today, my mom gave me another summons that said my request for an excuse has been denied. Apparently, even with the update, they insist on mailing the second summons to my old address, with my old name. So now I've got a summons to serve with a name that isn't mine and an address that isn't mine.

Now, I have no problem serving jury duty, when it's actually my time to serve. My problem is that I'm in their system twice, and as such, I'm more likely to get called for service more often.

When I got married, I changed my name with Social Security, the DMV, and voter registration, and I also filed an official change of address with the postal service. So, why should I be forced to serve under a false name when I've done everything according to the government's rules, but the government can't keep up their files properly?

I am sorry guys, I have been so incredibly negative recently and I can't believe that I am starting to talk politics. I hate it when I do that.

Sorry Dave, I have been such a hoser.

Anyways, I want to become much more positive again. For some reason I have it in my brain that being negative is a good thing. In fact I think that negativity surrounds us so much that when we see it, we view it as a good thing. Instead of trying to find what works and what will make things better we become so focused on what is wrong and we decided that we are going to dig and burrow our niche into what is wrong in life instead of holding on to what is good and cling to it.

So I am sorry that I haven't been here much. I feel as though I need to be here more and write more and be myself more and well just about be anything that is beneficial more. I guess what I am saying is more more more.

On that note, you shall soon learn the truth of that which is all matter.