Huz-fucking-zah for Obama.  Feels damn good to be on the winning side for once.  Or again, without the theft this time.  I have faith that he'll at the least help to modernize the government and stick, for at least the first year, to his tax plan.  That's change, no doubt.  That this country can finally get it together enough to do something like ( Read more... )

So I've been having this sense lately that probably some of the economic problems going on are a by-product of the Baby Boomers.  This theory started to form for me when I started seeing that every job I applied to wanted 5, 7, or 10 years of experience.  Or they said things like "you must have ____ published games/works."  Then I thought about it ( Read more... )

We'll know for sure in a week, I suppose, but I think things are changing.  The hate, division, and fear, they're the birth pains of this change.  I have hope even in my frustration.  I have hope that for the first time in years I will be able to look ahead with the faith that tomorrow really will be better than today.

I hope.

Today has been beyond frustrating.  A job fair that had nothing for me, a job application process that has no communication, having to hound one of my students for what ended up being a week to get a response for scheduling, being told that there'll be one overworked person deciding how many students I (and everyone else) get from here on, no human ( Read more... )

http://www.keatingeconomics.com/

So yeah, I'm disappearing for today.  Spore is finally out.

http://www.neoflux-animator.com/notldr/notldr.html

A remake of Night of the Living Dead with snippits done by different animators, illustrators, and film-makers.  It could suck majorly, but it could also be win.  I'm curious to find out which.

So it annoys me how my mom gets to be critical of me, but if I say a damn word of criticism about something in her presence, I get lectured about negativity ( Read more... )

It'd probably help to read this first:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_el_pr/obama_untaxing_seniors

So I like the principal of the plan.  Obama wants to help out people like my grandmother who only gets social security, might have her ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_raceRead more... )