Well, shit.

Someone got the four years they worked two-hundred-plus years to see.

Is that the smell of optimism in the air? I think it is.

In this Presidential campaign, I'm watching from the sidelines as a non-voter (Canadian, natch) and marveling at how nasty the race has gotten, mostly because of the lack of thought that goes into it. I expect such things out of most conservatives - though there are some conservative commentators that I consider more civil and less venomous - but ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfVGmF5eTU#GU5U2spHI_4

I am amused.

do want.

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Strangely enough, I watched Jeremiah Wright's sermons; admittedly, I don't have a patriotic bone in my body, but I don't see anything wrong with what he said. *shrug* Go fig.

Just a thought because I'm an English major, and sometimes some things just scream for a narrative, even when there shouldn't be one. (Seriously, there shouldn't be one: despite the drama, despite the urge we get to convert the candidates into cartoon characters, despite the Democratic in-fighting, despite the polls, and despite the rabid ( Read more... )

"Voters trying to sort out their presidential choices aren't helped by debates cluttered with the likes of Mike Gravel (hint: he's a former senator from Alaska) on the Democratic side and Ron Paul (hint: he's a libertarian House member from Texas) among the Republicans."I do have to say that this phrase confuses me somewhat. Isn't the purpose of a ( Read more... )

Rabbi blames those Gaza Pullout fuckers

Republicans blame those Democratic fuckers

Christians blame those gay fuckers

Finally, the press shows some fucking balls! (And Slate, it's not a fucking rebellion, this is the press doing what they're supposed to be doing in the first place: being angry as hell and laying their teeth into that gaping ( Read more... )

Drinking Liberally

Now that is a political party.

Howard Dean is the chair of the DNC ( Read more... )

Werd.