A belated Merry Christmas and an on-time Happy 2010 to everyone! I just returned from a trip to visit The Matriarch in New Jersey. I may write more about this later. Right now, I am feeling intensely the effects both of bronchitis and a week of very little sleep (I swear, my grandmother's guest beds are made of concrete).

January: On Addictions ( Read more... )

C-SPAN is sitting on a ratings gold mine.

Korea is far enough ahead of us that the middle of their business day is our prime time. All C-SPAN has to do is hire some translators, and air on a ten minute delay proceedings from the South Korean National Assembly.

Isolated event? I don't think so. Click through some of those reference links ( Read more... )

Whatever hell-spawned infection I came down with has gotten worse in the last day. Accordingly, staying home from work. The extra four hours of sleep should've helped ( Read more... )

Or at least, me: A concise statement of why Palin bothers me

Had you told me eight years ago that the first vote I would ever cast would be for a Democrat, I would've laughed in your face. Then again, I was also in high school, and what does anybody know when they're seventeen ( Read more... )

I could get used to downtown Boston. I'm really liking it thus far. More on that later, though; time is at a premium ( Read more... )

Back when I lived in Sendai, the summer was torrid, there was no air conditioning, and my room had no circulation at all. I told people that I was so buying a fan the next time I went to Yodobashi Camera...for about three months. Every time, one or two of my friends raised in Korea (you know who you are) would frantically entreat me not to, as it ( Read more... )

2002: Wow, Gov. Palin's skirt is tight.

2008: They're both talking, but nobody's saying anything. >>Oni su govorili i govorili i govorili, a nisu rekli ništa!<2009: I'm not really warming up to either of them, but I'm really starting to like the moderator. "Neither of you really answered the question at all, but let's move on ( Read more... )

There is A Guy at work who is A: libertarian and B: a conspiracy theorist. He's also quite witty, and so his political discussions are usually quite interesting, provided that they don't wear you out. One day last week, he was talking with another coworker, and I didn't hear any of their conversation, except the very end, at which the woman, ( Read more... )

I've decided that I will vote in the election this year. I've sort of been waiting for the Democrats to decide when they'll finally get rid of Hillary as a lead candidate to make up my mind; if she ends up as Obama's vice choice (he is just nice enough to do that), then McCain it is for me. If he picks someone more palatable, my choice is less ( Read more... )