So I know I am really behind the times, but I really enjoy the show The Office. I am only about half way through season 2 but it is really funny. This is now show number 2 that I have waited to get on board on with. If it was not for Sean I never would have gotten into Battle Star Galactica.

So it has been brought up that Senator Obama is such a rapid partisan because he votes with his party 96% of the time. So I did some research and found through the Washington Post this same number. John McCain, voted with his party 88.1%. What is interesting is that they do not tell you how much of either these percentages also aligned with the ( Read more... )

Alright two things I need to get in the next few months ( Read more... )

I love that Governor Palin seems to just be getting this free pass for everything. First she avoids doing interviews with any media outlets or even taking questions from reporters, then she avoids answering questions, then she claims Senator Obama pals around with terrorists ( a lie and an exaggeration in that she references one lie of an example ( Read more... )

So instead of doing most of my homework today, I spent a lot of time doing numbers research. I know it sounds dorky but I think it is important to understand numbers that affect us. For example, today my friend Nick posted about his taxes, which prompted me to examine where our tax dollars do in fact go. A lot of talk has been said about "earmarks ( Read more... )

I ended up only watching 70 minutes of the 90 minute debate. From the 70 minutes I saw I have the following thoughts ( Read more... )

One more thing to get you excited to be a Democrat. We are such a short sighted and greedy nation. Now the greedy people who sent the financial markets into crisis and help oil companies produce record profits can continue to watch their empires grow and truly undercut the rest of the people in the end. This makes me sad. Leave a comment  2 

I think there are a few scary things going on in the world that most people either know nothing about or casually dismiss. This level of apathy really worries me ( Read more... )

1) Finish Grad School materials...sent for proof reading, got it back, requested updated recommendation letters got one response back. Goal now is to turn it all in by Friday ( Read more... )

Does anyone else have an apartment or home with an extra bedroom that you may use but also for some reason becomes a large storage area? When I clean, I tend to move things from all my other rooms to my second bedroom. I use the second bedroom for my computer and sometimes guests, but if I have no guests it is a dumping ground for all my misc. crap ( Read more... )