What does it say about us as a culture when, out of a 55 minute speech, the only thing we can focus on is how ashamed our president feels about smoking?

I don't like the answer.

Oh, yes, I still write poetry. But it never makes its way to paper.

I wrote a poem while I was in Europe. Once I am finished with Memo 3, I will finally type it out.

http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/state-of-the-union/145.html

until one day, we discovered the world was flat,
and for a while you tottered at the edge,
like a kid about to throw a skipping stone.
i looked away, oh eurydice, and never saw
you again.

"you spend the first five years trying to get with the plan
and the next five years trying to be with your friends again..."

shit.

"And now comes nanophobia, the fear that tiny components engineered on the nanoscale - that is, 100 nanometers or less - could run amok inside the body. A human hair, for example, is 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers in diameter. A nanoparticle of titanium dioxide in a sunscreen could be as small as 15 nanometers. (One nanometer equals a billionth of a ( Read more... )

It's not that you sell your soul to law school; you give it voluntarily.

(Days of studying literally 10-14 hours. It wears you down.)

One last thought:

John McCain kept referring to his fellow Americans as "my friends."

One of the things Americans have shown is that the George W. effect of wanting to grab a beer with the president is gone. As citizens, we don't need a friend; we need a leader.

I am so freaking pumped for several reasons.

Being born in the Reagan era, I don't think I'm alone in feeling that this is the first positive political event I've been conscious for in my lifetime.

We thought this election would be a serious fight over the future of this country, but only one candidate showed up. -- Esquire magazine, 2008.

See you Tuesday.

"For weeks now, James Jones has been extra courteous in traffic and at the gas station because he has an Obama sticker on the back of his truck. “Something like that might make a difference for Barack Obama,” Mr. Jones explained. “I’m not taking a chance.”" - Sense of Unease, New York Times, October 29, 2008