You can click here to what these two young men did to themselves.  VERY GRAPHIC.  But if we do not address these issues, we deserve to see what our neglect does.

Bullying + access to weapons = death.

Show and Tell at Columbine!!!:
Eric Harris

Eric Harris’ guns

• 12 gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun Serial No: A232432
• Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm semi-automatic rifle with thirteen10 round magazines fired 96 times
• The shotgun was the primary weapon used by Harris and was fired a total of 25 times
• Harris committed suicide with the shotgun

Dylan Klebold’s guns

• 9 mm Intratec Tec-9 Semi-automatic handgun manufactured by Navegar, Inc. with 32 round magazines
• 12 gauge Stevens 311D double barreled sawed-off shotgun Serial No.: ..A077513
• The Tec-9 handgun was the weapon primarily used by Klebold and was fired a total of 55 times.
• Klebold committed suicide with the Tec-9

Everything seems to be going wrong this month. My latest cross to bear is the fact that my podcast hosting provider at GO DADDY has been down for over a week.

I simply can not upload my podcasts. It will not let me.

I have called them several times. Each time they tell me they know there is a problem with their podcast hosting, that they do not know what is wrong and have no idea when it will be fixed.

At first I was really nice about it. Because, you know, mistakes and problems happen. But as each day went by and I was unable to upload my podcasts, I became increasingly angry toward Go Daddy’s cavalier attitude about it.

I explained to them that it was very important that I get my podcasts out in a timely fashion. They could have cared less.

So by Friday night I had enough of it and I called up very stern and cross. I was demanding satisfaction. So they spent THREE HOURS with me on the phone figuring out a way for me to give them my podcast file (Rings of Saturn #24) in order for them to manually put the file on my site.

I go to bed Friday night assuming my podcast would be up on my site soon.

Nope.

I call Saturday, livid. They tell me it would take up to 72 hours to put the podcast on my site and no idea how long it would take to fix the original upload problem.

I demanded to speak to a supervisor. I slowly work my way up the chain of command until such time as I am speaking to someone at Go Daddy with a position of authority.

I am pissed — and it shows.

He asks why I am uploading such a “large” file to begin with — 24MBs.

I say it is a podcast file.

He asks me: WHAT’S A PODCAST?

It was at this point that I knew I was doomed. Sunk.

I have one more weapon in my arsenal. And it is equal to dropping a nuclear bomb.

I did not want it to come to this.

I really did not.

I unleash The Bean on them.

Next thing I know, I am refunded all of my money I have spent with Go Daddy related to podcasting — so I am now hosting (if it ever works again) for free. (And I tip my hat to Go Daddy for that. But I do spend A LOT of money with them on various things)
My show is put on my site (But that show was done a week ago, so I am now a week behind)

And a promise that the problem will be fixed by Monday (we will see about that)

So for now, if you are hearing Rings of Saturn #24 or #25 you are in select company. I am using my spare libsyn account to host them and slapping them up to my site. My main RSS feed is the Go Daddy one — so people who rely on that RSS feed to find out when the latest installment of SATURNcast is up will never know there is a new podcast unless they make their way over to the SATURNdiary.

This bothers me. Being a genius also makes me anal-retentive.

I wonder if Adam Curry knows Go Daddy is unaware what a podcast is. . .

Listen here.

Today’s show was inspired by Matthew Burlingames’s Spanking Bea Arthur’s Blog.  And his wonderful and powerful post: Fat Fat Fatty Fat

The Bean reads his powerful post.

I talk about growing up and how I did nothing to stop the bullying and cruelty of others.

I discuss how I was pressured to stop my own bullies — and the pain and anxiety it caused.

Why are we all so cruel to each other?

While I abhor Columbine, I can understand why it happened.

We need to address the serious problem of school bullying.

From the Podsafe Music Network: I Say Whateva by Beat Assassins

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Kidney Stone Dance

Listen here.

I am very passive-aggressive today.

You and I have not just sat down and talked in like, forever.

Kidney stone problem is still a problem.

Thanks to all of you who have reached out to see if I was ok.

The SATURNdiary was hacked on Sunday.

I hired Andy Melton to fix it and he did a fantastic job! I urge all of you to hire Andy when you need computer help.

PizzaBabe calls Bean a whore and a prude. . . Not a winning strategy.

Listen to the TiggerCast

Listen to AJ’s Cuppa Tea

Listen to Rebbecca Nay’s Tranny Wreck (She was mean and cranky on her last podcast)

Listen to the Gay Expat

Listen to the Freak Network

Why is it that I give all of you iTunes reviews but none of you have seen fit to give me one? (even a bad one! SHAME ON YOU)

Wal-Mart and Dunkin’ Donuts PC BS.

Red China is going to own space in 10 years. We are dumb-asses.

Madge Weinstein calls me a hater. So untrue.

Apple iPhone is useless.

Steve Jobs need a suit.

From the Podsafe Music Network: Uncle Seth — You Don’t Need an iPod.

Metalica sucks.

I think addicts need 12 step programs.

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Billy Squier

Howard Stern talked about this video today and I have to admit, what was Billy Squier THINKING with this video?

NHL Saves of the Week for 1/19/07

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

— Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings

Listen here.

My best friend, since kindergarten, reminisce about the old skool days.

We are not proud of the old days. We are very fortunate not to be in prison or dead. We used to laugh about it — now we thank our lucky stars. . .

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Listen here.

I am really, really ill today with a kidney stone.  But I did not want to podfade on you all. So I did a show.

It is that kind of level of service you would expect from Christiaan Huygens and the SATURNcast.

Bean joins me to fill in the gaps of my codeine induced fog.

I was honored to be on two different podcasts this week.

AJ’s CuppaTea

Pizzababe Goes Global 

We love the TIGGERcast 

Andy Melton in space update.

My kidney stone troubles. . .

Bean discusses her own young romance troubles.

Bean and I discuss how we met in law school.

A phone message from Special Delivery Mark.

Ali G and that jerk, Andy Rooney.

I love you all.

I am in pain.

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NHL Saves of the Week of 1/12/07

“Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.”

–Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)