R already made a pretty good post about our trip to Gary, Indiana last weekend to canvass for Obama. It was heartwarming and energizing to talk to that many people with that much enthusiasm for Obama, and to know that every one of their votes is going to cancel out one racist/revived-McCarthyist vote downstate and give us a decent shot at seeing a ( Read more... )

To the many people on my LJ who live in Illinois: You can now vote. Yay for Illinois instituting early voting. And if you live in Chicago, you can also get a copy of exactly what your ballot will look like at http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo.phpRead more... )

Along with the clip Ralinad posted yesterday of Obama being awesome, reading this has made me feel better about the world. How to handle the fury brought on by this election? Register voters, hit the streets, pray. Stop talking about her. Talk about Obama.An hour or two of volunteering tonight should make me feel even better ( Read more... )

I usually avoid discussing politics with my mother's relatives, because they tend to lean conservative.

But today my mother's cousin sent me a link to the Women Against Sarah Palin blogSince Palin has no actual experience qualifications of which to speak, and has blatantly lied to claim the few she has (having created a new job for a lobbyist ( Read more... )

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http://www.chicagomassaction.org/

Tomorrow (Thursday) right after work, 5 pm, I will be at the "convergence" to protest the war in Iraq at Dearborn and Adams downtown. Come. If you want to meet me there, let me know.

"The other options were worse, weren't they? A lifetime of Freudian interpretations or a lifetime of Laingian interpretations! What a choice! I might as well join forces with a religious fanatic, a Scientology freak, or a doctrinaire Marxist. Any system was a straitjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. I didn't ( Read more... )

I'm sure there will be a lot of links to this posted on LJ today. One of them shall be mine. Thank you sweetainsley for giving it to me.http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=972f7d73-e0a2-43ea-abad-0abf6afba1f3

I was in the copy room of my office this morning when I realized that NPR was on the radio, and that Terri Gross was interviewing Stephen Colbert out of character.

It is a magical interview full of joy... and joyness....

I have buckled to peer pressure and joined Facebook. In the time it took from automatically listing everyone I've ever emailed who is also on Facebook, letting me choose which ones I want to invite to be my "Friend," and updating a bare-bones profile, I already have four "Friends" confirmed, only two of whom are also on Livejournal and only one of ( Read more... )