Quick! I'm feeling some loss of freedom here!

I need some book or movie (that I haven't read or seen) that embodies democracy/freedom/justice/politics. Something awing. Something that (to be entirely cliche') just makes you feel proud to be American.

Examples: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or pretty much anything Bob Woodward or George Lackoff ( Read more... )

Today was silly, and great. Marah and I are always silly together, and sometimes it makes for great ideas.

We went into Seattle to see Maria Cantwell, and Russ Feingold speak at some elementary school in Ballard. I was a little disappointed to see that I was one of four UW Young Democrats there (the rest were all officers). There's also 500 ( Read more... )