Two items on my mind tonight. First of these is the ol' world-o-warcraft ( Read more... )

Hello, LJ. I'm going to actually use you tonight.

While I shall attempt to maintain objectivity in this blog, be aware that I am thoroughly liberal and biases inevitably creep in to all commentary. When reading keep in mind that I support Obama/Biden, and favor crazy ideas like the right to choose, free speech, separation of church and state, criminal rights, single-payer universal health care, ( Read more... )

So Hillary Duff is doing PSAs(with some other celebrities) about cavalierly using the word gay as something being generally bad... and I find myself laughing at them and agreeing with the sentiment. I have a favorable opinion of Hillary Duff right now.

I feel dirty...

Sacrifice: the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim ( Read more... )

Writing mail I never intend to send to someone... whee!

From a CNN.com story: "During a campaign event in Columbia, Missouri, Biden did not mention his Republican counterpart by name but said, "I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy ... and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a ( Read more... )

Something I've become more and more aware of as I've followed the 2008 campaign is the coverage any random assertion gets, and the complacency of the media in accepting any assertion as fact. Whenever a news program gets a partisan commenter on the air, they tend to make all sorts of assertions without presenting any sort of proof either in favor ( Read more... )

I think I've finally figured out what I want to do with this LJ that I've been sitting on for far too long. I can use it as a forum to place my thoughts out on a topic that nearly continually has my interest and always has something new to talk about. What topic is that, I hear you ask? Why, politics of course. Groan if you like, but if you don't ( Read more... )

Oh, hey! I have a journal? I kinda forgot about this thingie with all that's been going on ( Read more... )