1. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, heather11483!!!! <33333

2. O. M. F. G.

YES WE DID!

YES WE CAN!!!

*flails* *is verklempt*

1. Less than 24 hours until the polls open. I've already voted but dayum, I'm trying not to sweat bullets. I must adopt the Zen attitude of the guy I voted for last week: "We've done all we can do." Well, I know I could have done more, besides voting for him and giving a total of maybe $100 spread out in $20-$25 chunks over several months, but ( Read more... )

1. I voted yesterday. In Wisconsin you can cast an absentee ballot if you are "unwilling or unable to vote on election day" (you sign a statement to that effect and voila, absentee ballot, aka early voting). In an effort to avoid what are likely to be insanely long queues next Tuesday, I took an hour off from work yesterday and stood in a lengthy ( Read more... )

YESSSSS!!!11!!
The people have spoken and the tide has turned. I am very, very happy. And John Gard, one of the most reactionary people ever to serve in the Wisconsin Legislature, gave up being SPEAKER and lost his bid for Congress. So yes, I'm very happy about that too ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan said this many years ago, much better than I ever could. It was true in the 1960s and it's true now.

( For the times, they are a-changin' )

1. Apparently a guy I've known for a long time has been elected to the City Council of a nearby town. Go, Dennis :D I didn't even know he was running for office until I saw a letter to the editor endorsing him a few days ago ( Read more... )