Aldrei hélt ég að ég myndi vitna í Guðlaug Þór Þórðarson máli mínu til stuðnings, en þetta er ekkert grín.

http://www.pressan.is/pressupennar/LesaGudlaug/-islendingar-fa-ekki-ad-greida-atkvaedi-um-esb-samninginn

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What a day. Won't forget this one for a while. There are a few pieces of trivial news worth mentioning: Hildur and Hákon got the apartment they had been hoping for on Schönhauser Allee. The contract needs to be finalized, but it's pretty much in the bag. We can start painting and moving hopefully as early as the beginning of February, but no later ( Read more... )

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been thinking a lot about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lately. With the sort of horror stories we hear coming out of Gaza and the horrendous polarization that emerges among people "donating their status" to grotesque statistics on facebook, it seems that an eye for an eye leaves the entire world not only ( Read more... )

Gordon Brown saves the world.

Prop 85 failed. Thank God.

But so did 86 and 87. Are these people fucking morons, or what? Is there any logical reason not to put a huge tax on cigarettes and use it in the healthcare system? Heck, even if they were planning on taking the money and firing it into the sun, I would support this proposition - the less people can afford to smoke, the ( Read more... )

I just voted. Feel v. grown up and dutiful citizen. Got sticker, with American flag, that says "I voted touchscreen", which is a true statement ( Read more... )