So I read some words on the Internet that more or less sum up how I feel about the current political climate.

Obama is a bad president for about a hundred reasons. Few of those reasons will ever been scrawled on a sign and carried around a tea party rally: he is not a socialist, he is not a liberal, he is not a communist, because any of those ( Read more... )

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Oops, that’s not the video that’s currently making its rounds on LiveJournal! Instead, here we have a clip of Keith Olbermann on The View, being confronted on and confirming the fact that he doesn’t voteI’ve already had a number of discussions with people on the matter, so let me make clear right here and now that I am not challenging his right ( Read more... )

Today is history.

I am proud of my country to the point of tears right now.

Don’t let me down in the next few days, California. I will fucking divorce you if Prop. 8 passes.

Yes, I voted for Obama/Biden.

Yes, I voted in favor of Prop. 2.

Yes, I voted against Prop. 8.

Remember to do your civic duty today, fellow Americans.

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical ( Read more... )

So, I just had the conversation with my parents that I knew I’d inevitably have. See, we have an interesting family dynamic, one I’m sure is familiar to Kjorteo. I’m the sole Democrat in a family Republicans (with one Libertarian step-brother). I made clear that I didn’t want to have this conversation until after November 4th, because I knew I wasn ( Read more... )

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home ( Read more... )

( Warning: Contains Political Commentary )

Okay, so you know how Trent was going to perform “The Hand That Feeds” on MTV Movie Awards with an unmolested backdrop of George W. Bush’s face, and MTV canceled the performance because “Apparently the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me ( Read more... )

You know, I could sort of understand interviewing moot, what with the worldwide protests against Scientology and all. You could argue that they were somehow trying to find out more about what they felt was a movement for a good cause, in spite of it having nothing to do with finance.

But then they post an article asking if Obama is too skinny to ( Read more... )