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8:26 AM | link
If Gore chooses another half-dead white guy as his running mate, I'm gonna puke. But I know he will. It's part of the game.
Perhaps the most depressing news report of the past few days was the one in which the Democrats were said to be elated at Dubya's choice of his daddy's good friend as running mate-not because it shows the Republicans for the unimaginative establishment clods they are, but-get this-because it gives Al Gore a free hand to choose whomever he likes as his running mate.
What does that mean? It means, Phew! We don't have to go out and look for anyone female, or anyone of color, or even anyone vaguely interesting, to offset the Republican ticket! No, now we're free to go back to our very own pool of half-dead white guys and get somebody we're comfortable with! Ain't democracy grand?
8:48 AM | link
Where does Bush get off designating June 10th as Jesus Day? So much for religious freedom. When can I look forward to Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, and Lao-Tzu Days?
8:45 AM | link
No matter who you're planning on voting for, you should sign this petition to let Nader into the debates. What are we afraid of? That the general public might actually hear something they like?
9:29 PM | link
I heart Tom Tomorrow. The thought of going 3rd party makes me salivate. I live in Texas, so it's even more tempting because Bush is sure to win this state anyway. [via bird on a wire]
8:15 AM | link
I think the electoral college system should be abolished ASAP, but it is kinda fun to play around with this calculator.
6:45 PM | link
A closer look at the death penalty. Amen:
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, some of President Kennedy's advisors were urging him to use nuclear bombs in Cuba, but Bobby Kennedy objected, and told his brother, "That's not the kind of country we are." Was he wrong? I had always thought he was right. I was always proud to live in a nation of people who chose by virtue of our founding documents to be guided by law and reason, where the separation of church and state guaranteed that we would not engage in witch hunts, where we had carved out for ourselves a gentler, more humane existence than many of the places we left behind when we came here.
6:25 PM | link
Not registered to vote? Do it now! And on the Web, no less.
6:22 PM | link
I hear horror stories like this and it just makes me wanna work on a campaign more [via a nice piece of ass]:
Feldman, assigned to share a hotel room with Gore's press secretary, Chris Lehane, was trying to get some sleep. But Lehane was snoring loudly and incessantly. Finally, Feldman could stand it no more. He stood over the spokesman and shouted, "Lehane, you're snoring!" Lehane stirred long enough to shout back three words: "Feldman, you're flatulent!" With that, the press secretary to the vice president of the United States resumed his snoring.
8:08 PM | link
I finally finished According to Mary Magdalene tonight. Now I'm onto A Widow for One Year by John Irving. I highly recommend AtMM, especially if you're in the mood to question traditional Christian thought, but you aren't yet ready to digest Why Christianity Must Change or Die.
AtMM has a simple message that I think most present-day Christians seem to forget altogether: we are here to love and accept one another, not to make rules and laws and judge one another.
I liked reading about Mary Magdalene so much so that I'm anxious to read non-fiction works about her (as non-fiction as Christian mythology can be, that is). I also remembered that one of my favorite books, A Prayer for Owen Meany, features her in statue form. I think I'll pick it up sometime soon and re-read those passages.
7:53 PM | link
While making a late-night run to Walgreen's, I stumbled upon a most beautiful sight. One-gallon jugs of Arizona Green Tea on sale for 2 for $5. If I had bought that amount of green tea in the usual 20 fl. oz bottles, I would have spent about $17. The world is a wonderful, happy place.
1:44 PM | link
The Georgy Bush Project is now listed at bust.com. Go rate us!
3:04 PM | link
Work has finally calmed down, so I'll be back to my daily hippie liberal activities shortly. I picked up Mother Jones and Utne Reader yesterday and had this sneaky little idea.
The fitness center here at work doesn't have any magazine subscriptions -- they rely on members to bring in their old magazines. I'm getting pretty tired of all the fluff magazines people bring in. I mean, do I really need to read Fit Pregnancy? I think not.
So after I'm done with my good little hippie magazines, I'll bring them into the fitness center and slowly infiltrate. Either I'm a big dork or I'm a scheming little subversive.