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Tomorrow I’m going to see my Congressman. I did this a couple summers ago, but only with my wife’s assurance that it was okay with her if I got arrested and did I care which attorney I got? I was prepared to be arrested because we were going to the arraignment of several protestors who’d [...]

Filed under: Politics on August 17th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

So the first thing I hear on NPR news this morning is about Governor Sanford. After so famously going all John C. Calhoun on President Obama by refusing stimulus money, it turns out the Governor was visiting his Argentinian mistress. I’d like to really jump all over Sanford about this, but there’s something bizarrely romantic [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics, Yesterdaze on June 25th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

This is from an e-mail that’s been circulating…. Ben and Jerry’s created “Yes Pecan!” ice cream flavor for Obama. Then asked people to fill in the blank to the following: For George W. they created “_________”. Here are some favorites: – Grape Depression – Abu Grape – Cluster Fudge – Nut’n Accomplished – Iraqi Road [...]

Filed under: Politics on February 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last spring, when gas was over $4.00 a gallon, I started paying attention to my gas mileage a little more. Queen of My Universe got me a computer to hook up to the Korean Tiger’s brain which computes real-time gas mileage. I was having a lot of fun with it, driving slow and being all [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on January 31st, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Wonderful inaugural weekend with the QoMU. After being disappointed from the decided lack of snow days last week, I decided to settle with a three day weekend. Friday afternoon with Joe, Jimmy and Doug. Hanging with Joe and Jim is a history lesson, going from national to international. Anyway, Joe is pretty happy with Obama, [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on January 19th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Remember Tonya Harding? She was the ever-so-talented figure skater who got her boyfriend to hire a guy named Jeff Giloolie to whack the kneecap of her arch enemy Nancy Kerrigan with a pipe. Tonya Harding was then allowed to continue in the competition, but ended up being a national disgrace. Since then she’s taken stabs [...]

Filed under: Politics on October 11th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’m in a weird state of mind about the way things are going. My conventional rose-coloured glasses wants to believe that the economic bailout will actually make a difference. I’m not basing this hope on anything rational, but there IS something to the power of positive collective thought. All the people whose opinions I really [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Politics, Teaching on October 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Necessary Pieces: A re-broadcast of the first Obama-McCain debate; a shot-glass or drinking cup, plenty of your beverage of choice Rules: At the beginning of the debate Each time a candidate worms his way around Jim Lehrer’s persistent questioning about how he’s going to deal with a post-bailout economy – TAKE A DRINK Each time [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on September 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’m in the middle of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On NOT Getting By in America. Every suburban white person in America should read this. It chronicles Ehrenreich’s experiment in which she travels to different parts of the country doing minimum to below minimum wage and attempting to survive. It’s incredible so far. Anyway, she [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on September 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I wish I had Jon Stewart’s staff. They roll fill together almost as masterfully as Michael Moore does. It really helps put the right wing pundits in perspective.

Filed under: Politics on September 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »