I could have rescued Democrats nationwide last night. I could have singlehandedly erased the enthusiasm gap. I could have singlehandedly smashed it to shit with a hammer and replaced it with an energized progressive base frothing at the mouth for a chance at the throats of Buck, Angle, O'Donnell, Paul, Miller, Rubio, DeMint, Toomey, Johnson, Raese ( Read more... )

Blessed silence now as the house is left between me and the cat--the cat who is afraid of me, and so won't make noises or will but so as not to be heard because she will be at the opposite end of the house from me. Hans and Moody to Gabor's for free pool and allegedly cheap pitches of the working man's delight. Kathleen and Ezra are for a walk ( Read more... )

Michael Douglas, in Falling Down, stands at the corner of a Long Beach intersection. Four Latin Princes pull out two pairs of semi's and drive bye in a low-rider, shooting up their own neighborhood. Douglas turns around from the pay phone, walks over to the busted up low rider and says to the gang banger:
You missed.
He picks up the errant semi and ( Read more... )

Barton and the guys sit around his large-screen TV, playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, passing a bong. Courtney and Tyler man the controls, shooting the shit out of each other and their nemeses on Playstation Live. Jack takes a hit and expels his theory on the legalization of marijuana and the good that would come from ending the War on Drugs- ( Read more... )

"Multiculturalism is not a fad, it's not going to go away. And multiculturalism is not political correctness. Multiculturalism is a serious effort to redefine who is an American." -- Ronald Takaki

"My question is: Does [Judge Sotomayor] really understand what America is about?" -- Lindsey Graham

For all their domination of the world, and whatever, ( Read more... )

Today was the first full day back in Cortland-Lakeview, and it felt like the funeral procession parking at the cemetery. I was warm for a few days, but now I'm cold and wet again. And poor. So poor.

Over breakfast and then again over lunch, Mom and I discussed our futures--me graduating from college and all; she retired and ready for Phase Two, ( Read more... )

It finally happened last night. I finally met the stupidest person ever. Oddly enough, I've known her since the beginning of this year, I'd just never talked to her, really, so I'd never had the chance to really absorb her deep, deep idiocy.

It finally happened. I finally had a conversation with someone who genuinely thought that Barack Obama was a ( Read more... )

I'm really embarrassed.
I am really embarrassed to be from Ohio.
Not because it went for Hillary....
...But because it went for Hillary with 20% voting for her because she's white. Or because Barack's half-black. Or because he has an ethnic name that sounds vaguely Muslim and somewhere I heard he don't know the words to the national anthem.
One-fifth ( Read more... )

The door knob on our back door has been falling off since we got back to Oxford this semester, and it was one of those things that we'd some times call our land lord about, and some times we wouldn't... we'd just fix it ourselves.

Our door knob fell off, and someone called in about it, so Old Dude--our land lord's go-to guy for mild home ( Read more... )

Letter from President Hodge
To:    Miami University All Undergraduate on behalf of University Communications
Sent:     Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:24 PM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Dear members of the Miami University community,

Tuesday afternoon, October 30, a Miami undergraduate, in what he reports to have been a group art project, hung several ( Read more... )