Tomorrow we leave for a trip to the Big Apple. I have no clue why it's called that. Any apple that has metal skyscrapers jutting out of it is an apple I'll gladly not eat. There is much planned to see and do, and no doubt, next weekend will be spent gaining strength for the start of summer school. Before we leave, I wanted to mkake sure I kept on top of the summer movie season and promptly post my review of Prince Caspian. Why he sounded like a latin lover, I don't know.

How odd is it that the newly monikered Tampa Bay baseball team, the Rays, is in first place and has the best record in the American League as of yesterday. This could truly be a sign of the apocalypse. However, this is the first season that the team no longer refers to itself as the Devil Rays. Is that what was holding them back for so long? Get rid of the Devil and zoom into first place. I guess hindsight is 20/20.

Speaking of the Devil, CW decided not to be stupid and bring back Reaper for the Fall season. It will be a mid-season replacement, but at least it is coming back.

And now for something completely weird. It's a little freaky but completely awesome.

After a week and a half, I'm back in action after my laptop died. The dreaded XP "bit rot" completely screwed my computer. Thankfully I was able to copy over my files before doing a complete reinstall of XP and all my applications. Now that my laptop is up and running, I've uploaded my long overdue review of Iron Man. Ironically, the review that took the least amount of time to write ends up being published over a week later than I expected.

I'm really starting to get tired of all the political correct garbage that is permeating our culture. It seems no one is happy with who they are, and everyone is scared to identify a person by their nationality. The cultural identifiers are getting worse and worse as evidenced by recent observations.

I saw a poster this week advertising Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Who decided to string as many adjectives together as possible to describe someone? It wasn't all that long ago that ________ American became the "right" thing to say for any person living in the United States that wasn't obviously Anglo-Saxon. Considering that I can't tell if someone is Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc. based on looking at them, I can accept the term Asian American. But somebody thought that wasn't descriptive enough? Granted Asia is huge and touches three oceans, but I think most people understand what an Asian American is. Do we need to distinguish between an Asian Arctic American or an Asian Indian American? Wouldn't an Asian Arctic American be Russian? Asian Indian Americans could be either Indian (DUH!) or Terror... um, I mean, Arabian. Does adding Pacific into the mix do anything other that waste precious letters and printed space? If you think about it, shouldn't anyone of Indian heritage in the United States be British Asian Indian American?

Adding all these adjectives together to describe someone will never help racial tension, especially here in the South. Us folks in the South are lazy by nature; it takes us three syllables to say something as simple as Hi. We don't have the patience to say Asian Pacific American. That would take us close to a minute just to say, not counting the precious seconds needed by our brains to process all those syllables. It's a lot easier to just say *insert offensive cultural descriptor here*.