Sad.

This is the questionnaire for job applicants looking to get into the Obama administration.

My favorite part:
Writings: Please list, and if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any posts or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. ( Read more... )

I feel more pride in my country today than I have in years. Partisan politics aside, I think it's undeniable that America really hit a milestone, Tuesday ( Read more... )

"Most recently Clinton compared the plight of Florida and Michigan voters to the struggles of the early suffragists and likened the primaries of those states to the fraudulent election that took place in Zimbabwe."

Zimbabwe, Hillary? Are you serious?

Source.

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"Let me tell you something. When it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit," Hillary Clinton said.

(Except... aside from the obvious fact that Rocky lost, Hillary is really more like Apollo Creed.)

“Sometimes I feel like Paulette Revere: the recession is coming, the recession is coming," Clinton said(Except ( Read more... )

This semester has gotten off to a rough start. I'm already playing a little bit of catch-up, but if I can just buckle down and do some (copious amounts of) reading, I should be fine. :) I am rather enjoying my classes... They just seem so... homogeneous. It is a little dull. But I suppose that should pick up somewhat once I branch out from the ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks have been very long ( Read more... )

In other news, I watched President Bush's State of the Union Address, tonight. I agreed with most of what he said. I'm just not exactly grasping the logistics of it. As in... How are we going to make permanent the tax cuts, fight a war, offer tax credits to research organizations, develop alternate sources of energy, train thousands of teachers to ( Read more... )

In April, according to a New York Times story, when a Japanese art collector sought to choose between Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses to handle a sale (which ultimately brought in $17.8 million) and quixotically asked the two houses to play rock-paper-scissors for the privilege, Sotheby's lost out on the eventual $2.3 million commission by ( Read more... )