fronting today's washington post:
bush signs approved schiavo measure

fronting today's colorado springs gazette, article credited to the washington post:
president signs bill to save schiavo

that's nice, how you do that.

personally, i think the whole thing is a disgusting political/media circus.

according to a recent abc poll(pdf), 70% of ( Read more... )

maybe i'm not numb so much as tired.

to be read in a thick eastern european accent: i toil all day. all day i toil. a sisyphian rat under the ugly lights and watchful eye of ludicrously inept management who, as is typical, blame the labor force for the store's shortcomings. which is almost understandable, given that the higher-ups are constantly ( Read more... )

the drop in tension since my mom's departure is palpable. it's a relief, but also kind of sad ( Read more... )

"WASHINGTON, March 16 - President Bush today nominated Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense who was one of the architects of the administration's campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, to be president of the World Bank..."

i guess now that we're all in agreement that the man knows what he's doing...


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in spite of its many sicknesses, i love america. it's wasteful, it abuses power, it pollutes the planet, it takes disgusting excess for granted and acts with an arrogant disregard for the way others are affected, but i still love it. it's home to me. it's home to many of the people and things i love, a melting pot of countless cultures and ways of ( Read more... )

they let me back in the next night, so i have a place to stay. which is good, because the cold front swept in saturday, the ground is covered in snow and it's about 5 degrees at night. i would have updated earlier but i couldn't get on the internet. when she dropped me off at work saturday morning, allie offered to let me stay at her place. some ( Read more... )

my parents kicked me out of the house last night.

i called at ten to tell them i wouldn't be home on time because alison's car wouldn't start. they were fuming. i told them we'd called someone to come look at it. halfway through the call, the engine roared to life (we must have turned the key forty or fifty times) and i told my dad i'd be home ( Read more... )

my dad calls TIME magazine a 'liberal commie rag'. and i guess i've always seen it as a little left-leaning, although not as much as newsweek, and they did pick bush as their 'man of the year' last december. a tagline on the front cover of the march 14 edition reads, "is the bush doctrine paying off?" heh. i filed through the glossy newsprint to ( Read more... )

"There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that's the United States, when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along."

_Josh Bolton, Bush Administration nominee for UN Ambassador

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