I lived most of my life in Colorado.

When I was nine years old, Columbine happened not too far from my house. I remember getting frustrated because I wanted to watch cartoons and all the channels were playing some goddamn something about a high school and scenes were on a repeating loop: here was a group of kids frantically running out from a back ( Read more... )

Kids, this is what happens to your democracy when you sit back and let the big G-Man raid your house in the name of your safety:

Well, you're American, but you're a terrorist. So I guess you don't count!

Don't misunderstand me: shit happens, terrorists need to be caught, etc etc. But look at what's happened the past 10 years. We've lived in this ( Read more... )

Well...I didn't really have an urge to listen to Obama/McCain, but as luck would have it, the battle royale between Palin, the Alaskan Hockey Mom, and Biden, the pitbull with a temper, was on this evening a la NPR.

Unfortunately, Palin was out of her league -- though she is the governor of Alaska (and her debates in her general weren't too terrible ( Read more... )

So I will summarize and stuff:

RIP Edmund Hillary. An amazing man, astounding role model to me and (I have no doubt) countless others; his work in Nepal can never be taken away or regarded as pointless.

I love how the primaries are totally haywire -- we might actually have a real race, which the pundits cannot predict with their Jedi mind tricks. ( Read more... )