Yeah, so the Ataris' "In This Diary" came on on the way to work this morning. Because you really need lyrics like that on the way to your useless office job.

Now what's so great about the house that Reagan built? Well, he built it in the hardest way possible. Using supply-side economics, you build the top floor first, you prop it up with homeless people and... you hope the rest of the house trickles down.

I freaking died laughing.

Oh Republicans. It's tough to be you, isn't it?

So it is apparently INSANE if you're caucusing in MN right now. My hearty props to everyone who braved the wilds to do so -- wish I could've been there!

MPR has a picture of the people all bundled up waiting in a line stretching away from Bryant Lake Bowl. Way to go Minnesotans. You guys are awesome.

So the past couple days I've been eating in my car. It's an old habit from MPHA; I like to get out of the building, but sometimes the weather isn't really hospitable for eating out of doors. Which, to be fair, is only to be expected of January or February ( Read more... )

Oh man... I am more excited right now than I normally get on Christmas Eve. Tomorrow's gonna be awesome! I wish I could just sit and listen to the radio all day. I am such a dork!

Hey, Johnny my boy, big election tomorrow I hear! Anything you want to tell us? Like, who you're voting for, maybe?

First Kaplan class in about an hour. I am actually feeling pretty prepared, I just hope my class is not mean. I'm teaching GMAT students, and I worry about the dispositions and good nature of a bunch of business-students-to-be.

Two and a half hours. That is a damned long time to stand in front of an audience.

What the hell? You're all supposed to be a bunch of raving nutjobs. You have a field with an unrepentant totalitarian, a preacher-man who knows nothing about the world at large -- Christ, even America's first cyborg with a real shot at the presidency! What's with this crap about coming to your senses and falling in behind McCain?

( Be it resolved that... )