This morning, while driving to work, I decided to forgo my iPod and turn on NPR. Much to my surprise, Bush was giving his last Press Conference, and as I listened, I felt a bit of sadness. I know he and his cronies have been terrible for this country, and we can't have any more of his policies. But I was sad.

I posted a similar entry a few years ( Read more... )

"Alaska is not a foreign country"

- Sarah Palin

After a failed attempt this morning, I've just voted in New York. It's one of the few times in the year when I have the News on all evening, and I'm anxiously awaiting the early reports to come in, hopefully for Obama! While I might take a quick break for some West Wing, I'll be parked at my make-shift desk on my laptop with the TV shouting at me ( Read more... )

I'm at work listening to last week's Marketplace Money Podcast from NPR, and they mentioned something interesting. We keep talking in politics about the middle class vs the upper class, and who should take the burden of taxes. Well, according to bankrate.com, living a decent life on $97, 000 in Atlanta is equivalent to about $147,000 in the LA area ( Read more... )

So it's official: Chris Dodd, my hope for the presidency in 2008, has dropped out of the race. He's a man that makes me jealous of everyone in Ct, or as one internet denizen put it, he's "the dragon slayer we all need." I had been listening to everything I could get my hands on for the last month, and had been planning on posting about him this ( Read more... )