As a side note, I prefer Pandora but I can't access that site from Europe while at work...but when I'm on my personal laptop I can log into MIT's VPN with an American IP address and get all of the American internet that I want. Yay!
The ad I heard on Yahoo music was John Mayer speaking for RADD...Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drunk Driving. First off, why is it RADD and not RAAADD? Are they too good for the extra As? How do you think that makes those three As feel? Do you think A's siblings make fun of her (more on why it's feminine in a second) at the Letter People's family reunion?
Next side note, do you remember the Letter People? I know I do. Growing up I had this pen object that you placed against a reading book and the pen spoke the letter to you. I vividly remember Mr. S, Super Socks, from my childhood. Thanks to the glory of the internet I was able to remember that A is actually a Miss A, A'choo.
Back to RADD...first of all, where did the Recording Artist and Athlete link up come from. The RADD website says the organization RADD is now "the Entertainment Industry's Voice for Road Safety" and in italics says it is "formerly known as Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drunk Driving." I guess I see the entertainment link, but still...seems like an odd link to me. What about other entertainers who haven't recorded anything? How about math competitors, Mathletes?
Do they count as Athletes? Sure, you've avoided all of these tough questions by changing to the phrase Entertainment Industry, but I bet the new members still feel a little wounded and excluded...like they aren't really part of the club.
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[/caption]My actual question that started all of this is why we need all of these X-ADD programs? Don't get me wrong, I'm as against drunk driving as anyone. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't drink and never have, and thus have always graciously taken the role of designated driver. My question is more about the various ADD programs I have heard of. I know of MADD, Mothers Against..., and SADD, Students Against..., and BADD, Boaters Against..., and following a Google search I also saw AADD and CADD, Artists and Citizens Against...and who knows what other combinations.
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[/caption]Are all of these organizations members of a governing Against Drunk Driving organization? Maybe they should be. Maybe we need a governing body to regulate who can be against drunk driving and how best to be against drunk driving. They could provide better direction.
I also started thinking about what other X-ADD organizations we could see in the near future. Maybe a simple combination to weed out the people who only have one criteria through which to be against drunk driving. How about someone like Madona or Britney Spears, RAMADD, Recording Artists and Mothers Against...and now that I think of it, I bet they are both boat owners and probably not students right now...RAMBWNSADD, Recording Artists and Mothers and Boaters Who are Not Students Against...
Then you can start introducing new categories for exclusion. Maybe FATGADD, Former Actors Turned Governors Against... This would be a club that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura could join.
You might argue that Jesse Ventura was a wrestler and while that is acting it is not the same as acting in a movie like Arnold did...to which I will kindly remind you of Jesse's stellar performance as Blain (the one with the chain gun) in Predator alongside Arnold. If you've seen the movie you know that he ain't got time to bleed. If you haven't seen it...what's wrong with you?
