Why I Hate iTunes & iPod Touch

Well I don't actually hate the iPod Touch. I'm just so god damned fucking frustrated that it uses like no more than 1% of its potential. Fuck Apple!

Anyway, iTunes...I do hate. I despise iTunes. I hate it so much I can taste it. I hate the fact that a company that promotes its superiority in usability creates such a piece of shit product.

So first let me explain the major problem with the iPod Touch. I am 39 years old and I don't listen to the new music so much. What I do listen to is This American Life from NPR. So, when I put it on the goddamned iPod Touch, what do I see? This:


Can you tell what the fuck that is? Yep it's This American Life, but which episode? YOU CAN'T FUCK TELL. The more primitive iPods scrolled the goddamned name across the screen so you can see the rest of the name.

You'd think you can just turn the fucker on its side to get more information. But here's what happens when you do that:



It tells me one of them but not all of them. It's awful. Fuck Apple!

So what do I do? Transfer to the iPod, listen, then delete. It's the only way to keep them straight.

But my real ire is for iTunes. I hate iTunes with an unbridled passion. Let me list some of the things about iTunes that I hate:

1) iTunes lets you buy content you already own--maybe. At least it does not hide teh "buy song" button on songs (actually This American Life episodes) I already own.
2) When I try to buy a song, sometimes it can't access the store. OK, c'est la vie. But iTunes should fucking remember that I wanted to buy the content and help me later when it can connect.
3) When I search for This American Life, I need to expand the size of the pane with all the songs. Everytime I leave the store and come back, I need to resize the fucking thing. Fuck Apple!
4) IN my library, I can't organize my content by purchase time order. It makes it tough to find which episodes to transfer over.

I'll add more as I encounter them. iTunes drives me crazy.

Dobson Won't Support McCain

James Dobson, FOF asswipe, says he wouldn't support McCain for President if he got the nomination. Why? Well one reason is that McCain believes that the Constitution is a document that shouldn't have amendments that create a second class citizenship. Dobson wants the definition of marriage to be put into the Constitution. What a fucking moron! I've said it before and I'll say it again--to amend the Constitution to do that is far worse than wiping your ass with an original copy of the Constitution. Even entertaining the idea of removing individual rights in our Constitution--a document that should only guarantee rights and limit government powers--is too spit in the face of our Founding Fathers.

There is a chance--if McCain gets the nomination and tells the Social Conservative wing of the party to fuck off--that he could be the next Theodore Roosevelt. I don't think he will be the next Theodore Roosevelt, but if he wins in November, it is within his power. The Social Conservatives, after all, are the corrupt tumor of a party that otherwise, though often wrong, is at least based on reasonable values and actions. Fortunately, that tumor has been recognized and will soon be combated.