At least with bloody manflu you can lay up for a day or two, take shedloads of drugs, eat plenty of soup and not leave the house. Manflu inspires sympathy from your male peers and mocking from the women folk but at least it can be said to be in some way debilitating ( Read more... )

Along with the main event on Tuesday last, a very important amendment was being proposed to a number of states' constitutions around gay marriage rights. Sadly, both California and Florida (where a 60% majority was needed) both passed state-constitution propositions codifying marriage as being between a man and a woman - some of this was lost in ( Read more... )

20.25: I am currently sat here with close to a dozen websites open, CNN streaming in right now, and waiting to get control of the TV later. I have tomorrow off work and will most likely be up all night waiting for all the results - Presidential, house and senate - to come in. Feel free to post an comments with good sites that you're using ( Read more... )

Interesting to watch, I think McCain did himself more harm than good with his attacks in the middle which Obama pretty calmly refuted. McCain missed a chance to land a solid blow when they got muddled up in the NAFTA discussion, and there didn't seem to be any major sound bite that will be replayed that Obama will regret or McCain will champion ( Read more... )

Wow, just wow:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/10/new-york-countys-ballots-print-%E2%80%98barack-osama%E2%80%99/?barack-osama?/

Been ages since I posted, but up watching the 2nd debate tonight. Its hard putting faith in the American people after 8 years of Bush, but I have to believe they wont fall for the blatant flip-flopping of the McCain campaign over the past few weeks, and he's doing nothing to dispel that tonight so far ( Read more... )

So it is a complete coincidence that the post I've been meaning to write all week happens to get posted exactly one year after I last updated this journal. I've never been very good at regular posts - usually something has happened in my life that I feel is worthy of comment (such as my conversion to the Apple religion last year). As a quick update ( Read more... )

You don't really need to know how I cam across such a varied set of clips, or where my train of thought took me for searches but needless to say, I was entertained for quite some time until I came across possibly the single best video I have ever seen on YouTube ( Read more... )

So I know its been ages since my last post. Yet another privately held New Year's resolution goes by the wayside - I am less than shocked ( Read more... )

So begins another year and another promise to myself to post once a week. I say that because if I were to term it a resolution even this post wouldn't be written. Regardless, a quick summary of my Christmas and New Year is thus ( Read more... )