In the realm of slightly odd:
Broward Machines Count Backward, Palm Beach Post, November 5, 2004

In the realm of confirming various conspiracy theories:
Glitch Gave Bush Extra Votes in Ohio, AP carried on CNN, November 5, 2004

Well, Filmgirl99 asked if there was going to be a miralce that would save us, and I still think the answer is "no", but at least we ( Read more... )

Idea taken from alexxxandra:

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.

2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.

3. Include these instructions, and share the love.


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I'm getting pretty tired of election doom-and-gloom already.  I'm as guilty as the next fellow, but, really, haven't we had some time to get it out of our system by now?  If one plans on doing something, then do it, but enough sitting around complaining.  I, for one, plan on retiring back into my former sardonic ways and wait for the next major ( Read more... )

Either Democracy is dead or Democracy leads to fascism.  I no longer believe in our governmental structure.  "The will of the people" is obviously a farce, and I only hope that some US citizen has more guts than I do and finds there way into starting massive guerilla actions in the US.  I can't remember ever having so much animosity toward poor ( Read more... )

So I walk into the polling place and everything goes well--I was expecting to get hassled a little because I don't have a Tenessee dirver's licence.  I just thought I would relate a comical moment to y'all ( Read more... )

SO. SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) was here for the weekend.  For those of you who don't know, SPEP is the largest professional organization/conference for continental philosophy in the country.  About 500 philosophers/students showed up, so it was a pretty lively affair--I think I got a feel for what the "job" of ( Read more... )

So I handed in a completely crappy mid-term for my Husserl course today. The irony being that I know Husserl pretty well. Maybe the professor will have mercy on my poor over-worked soul (or maybe everyone else will crap-out and mine will look okay). Oh well, no time to worry about it--I have a presentation on The Crisis of the European Sciences ( Read more... )

GO SOX!!! Just some brief Sox related things that I found interesting...

David Ortiz on The Sox's motivation:
"Last year, I remember we had a bad memory. So a lot of my teammates were just destroyed because we played a pretty good game and we lost and it was a big-time opportunity to step to the World Series. We saw a lot of fans crying and ( Read more... )

Cross those fingers, kids! Game 7, tomorrow, 7pm CDT: Derek Lowe vs. Kevin Brown!

And the Sox keep rollin'!

All I can say about it is that was F***ing awesome!!! What a game ( Read more... )