I am angry tonight for some reason. Or no reason. Work was fine ( Read more... )

But I have a hall and plenty of oates in the kitchen ( Read more... )

Frozen in the funnel of the moment. Creeping forward, and downward, together ( Read more... )

One observation about facebook. I notice that a lot of people.... a lot of people..... have the middle name "Hussein." Clearly this is a movement of humor. You'll see something like Wesley Hussein Johnson, or Ricardo Hussein Rodriguez, or Amanda Hussein McDonald. I am amused ( Read more... )

Look, I adored the Kennedys as a child. I don't know where I heard it, but in 1972 during the Democratic primaries, I can remember telling my 3rd grade peers that Ted Kennedy was going to put swimming pools in every school! (Our nearest swimming pool was about 20 miles away.) I don't know where I got that "fact" from, but it was enough for me to ( Read more... )

Obama's choice of Rick Warren comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Obama all these years. He has played and toyed with gay voters and the people who support equal rights for all numerous times. Still, it prompted me to unsubscribe to Mr. Plouffe's endless email insistence that I continue to support them financially and otherwise: "Rick ( Read more... )

Blah, blah, blah, blah Clinton and Richardson blah blah blah blah Obama blah blah Lincoln blah blah Team of Rivals.

There. Publish me.

Obama stomped butt in my home state. 56% to 44% in Wisconsin. (My second home state, where I lived for a while, but was home to each of my parents, of course was Illinois, so, you know, not unexpected.) But Wisconsin did me particularly proud tonight.

I have been crying for about 40 minutes now ( Read more... )

I'm stuck watching network TV.

ABC just called it for Obama.