R.I.P. Bobby Fischer (1943 - 2008 ( Read more... )

barack obama. remember that name. i have a feeling he is going to be big someday.I wrote that in this journal on March 18, 2004, after Obama had won the Democratic primary for Senator in Illinois. I like to think that I was justified. However, even I would not have gone so far as to predict that this skinny kid would be the winner of the 2008 ( Read more... )

Hello ( Read more... )

Since I first became politically conscious, I have thrown myself behind a candidate in every contested Democratic presidential nomination brawl: Jesse Jackson in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, and Howard Dean in 2004; all of whom were subsequently defeated. Of the four aforementioned, former Vermont Governor Howard B. Dean, M.D. ( Read more... )

I GOT INTO TEMPLE'S PROGRAM! I'M GOING TO GRAD SCHOOL! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Read more... )

I know Tessa likes Hillary (at least as of August 2005), and many of the rest of you probably do, too. I must say that she's not my absolute favorite candidate (I have none), though I concede that it is well past time for a woman president ( Read more... )

So the interview went well, i think. The lady was really nice and everything. I don't know if i really want to move to Omaha, though ( Read more... )

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

Saddam Hussein is dead. He was hanged for "crimes against humanity." My simple question is ( Read more... )

i tried to update a few days ago, but when i hit "update journal," my entry disappeared. so i will try to recap ( Read more... )