I should be asleep, but I honestly can't sleep, thinking about this election. Maybe I'm feeling guilty for not canvassing today. Anyway, I was reading the different projections at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com and was (once again) impressed by the potential Indiana has to be important this year. We had a taste of that during the primaries and it ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

I’m writing to you because today, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Hoosiers will cast their ballots in the Republican or Democratic primary races. (If you have already voted, via absentee ballot or early voting, more power to you!) If you need to know where your polling place is, this site will tell you. I first simply want to urge you to vote ( Read more... )

Gah! I'm scared!

I'm applying to be in the Obama Organizing Fellows program this summer.  Here's the program description:

This summer we are looking for people who want to be a part of a new generation of leadership that believes, like Senator Obama, that real change comes from the ground up.

Fellows will be trained on the basics of organizing & ( Read more... )

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"If you voted for Obama, I hope you never vote again."

Not a chance, sir.  Not a chance.  You obviously don't know me.  I'm Kati, and I've looked forward to voting since I was 4 or 5, when I accompanied my parents to the polls.  It was around that age that I calculated my first election (2004) would be a presidential one and that I'd be 18 just a ( Read more... )

 Here's the opinion piece I wrote for The DePauw:

Like nearly every now-college-senior who went to high school in Indiana, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was knee-deep in lame questions over reading comprehension and analogies. The class of 2004 was taking the ISTEP standardized exam, and no one wanted to break our concentration to inform us ( Read more... )

Here's a short article about how Americans feel now about 9/11.

Also interestingly, results of a poll about American attitudes toward the Iraq War.

Finally, to liven up the mood, I am including this article- and the related website:
The Pet Goat
reviews of My Pet Goat

I wrote an opinion piece for the school paper that I'm pleased with, if I do say so ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Cody...

Your 'Do You Want the Terrorists to Win' Score: 100%

You are a terrorist-loving, Bush-bashing, "blame America first"-crowd traitor. You are in league with evil-doers who hate our freedoms. By all counts you are a liberal, and as such cleary desire the terrorists to succeed and impose their harsh theocratic restrictions on us all ( Read more... )

Well, I don't know what to say about this, really, but I thought I'd share...

TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73

"I shudder to think where the country would be right now if the religious right had not evolved," he said when he stepped down as Moral Majority president in 1987.

Kelly hypothesized that if he's in heaven, he might be surprised to ( Read more... )

Haha, good job to all of those who recognized the April Fools' joke.  Nope, I've not changed my political beliefs.  As usual, the LJ crowd proved to both be more clever and to know me better than the Xanga crowd.

Kati

PS- Incidentally, a few of those statements were true; I am grateful to live here (although there are other countries where I think I ( Read more... )