President-elect Barack Obama: it's symbolic. And to I think, I put that guy there. I put him in the Senate. I donated $2 to his campaign. I catapulted him to the presidency with my one popular vote and 21 electoral votes ( Read more... )

"The History of Bolivia"
A poem by Richard Brautigan
Reprinted from this website"Butch didn't die in Bolivia. He came ( Read more... )

Ahoy, laddies, ladies, an'chumbuckets! Sittin'ere this mornin' wit'm'grog (warm water an'coffee grounds), this ol' Salty Bird remembered t'post wi'a li'l pirattitude! So wither ya be dressed as mad ol' Blackbeard or Jimmy Buffett (who nary be a swashbuckler, but some swashbucklers be lis'nin' t'him), pick up th'phone! Tell yer scurvy mateys! ( Read more... )

Some (LOL)people run better campaigns than others.


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I was trying out a new joke on my roommate the other day: I said I wanted a T-shirt that said, "Irish Tolerance, German Ethics."

He paused a second, then burst out laughing. German ethics, he said? "Like Nietzche?"

I wanted to hit him. I said so. But I told him, "I just Kant."

Five years already?

They stole it. Cermak Plaza, the city of Berwyn (where was the landmark status?), whoever else involved. They stole it.

Friday night/Saturday morning, they took an item of immense value down, piece by piece, tore it out like my heart, Wayne's World be damned.

My dad once told me that the blue car, the third one from the top, was where our old car ( Read more... )

I wish that were true. Here I am, with one more period of each of my classes left, pulling the last late-night, all-nighter, sun's-up-down-and-up-again... whatever cliche you want to call it. Seriously, a rose by any other name is still not getting me any extra sleep ( Read more... )

It's Earth Day, yes, but it's also Pennsylvania Primary Day, both of which mean nothing... until today.

Well, Earth Day still means nothing, but Pennsylvania this Tuesday is more than just the whipping boy of several national sports: it is also being pimped for votes.

(Read on at the Aviary!)

Big news!