It has not been a good couple days to watch TV. First was the vile second half of "The Path to 9/11," which was everything that the first half was. The Bush administration was very concerned by terror! Bush was making a speech to the nation before the Towers fell! Also, let's rip off shots from "9/11" because this is a docudrama that prizes ( Read more... )

( Dear Karl Rove: No Love. Signed Chibkyo, Jon Stewart, and the goddamn Truth. )

It seams that almost everyone is out of the Superdome now. There are approximately 2,000 people still left there, but the focus of the evacuation has shifted to the convention center, where the crowd has swelled to about 25,000. (I find this incredible, because yesterday I was hearing 5,000.) And that's not even counting all the people in the ( Read more... )

( Prolly shoulda done this earlier. Whoops. Sorry, guys. )

( Rummy Rant. Beware the F-Bombs. )

I've cried over John Kerry's concession speech, I've seen the foreign press react to 3.5 million votes of victory, and I've tried to wrap my mind around the fact that George W. Bush is still my president ( Read more... )

I am feeling: angry, disappointed, bewildered, weepy, sick, miserable, forlorn, slightly hysterical, cynical, unimportant, numb, lonely, rational, dazed, tired, cold, and infuriated. It's hard to sum that up coherently.

Salon.com has a lot of articles right now that I'm just going through and reading to try to push past the pain. One article I ( Read more... )

Okay. Enough with this fair and balanced shit. You all know that I voted for John Kerry and just about every other Democrat on the ticket (except for University of Michigan trustees--I voted Green and Natural Law, and I hope they both win and we get a reality show out of it). I voted no on Proposals 1 & 2. I actually voted so early that I made ( Read more... )

I realize that politics have become a very polarizing thing in America these days, so I present...the LJ cut!  Behold, the ways in which I wish to retain my Republican friends while simultaneously not giving up on talking about my life.

( You know I just playin', GOPers. I still love you. )