By far the coolest thing I've seen whilst obsessively watching news over the past four days has to have been Hillary and Obama's speeches to the State Department. See I never warmed to the idea of Hillary as Secretary of State. Her flimsy claims of foreign policy experience soured me on her during the primaries, so I really didn't see why Obama ( Read more... )

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Do I want to take a 9 o'clock Friday class if it means having as my film production teacher someone who just finished working on Coraline? I mean she was only the assistant editor; she probably never even got to meet Gaiman and for all I know the movie might not be any good, but there's still an undeniable niceness to the idea ( Read more... )

sets down the book on the history of genocide which he has just realized he is voluntarily reading on his vacation, thinks about all the casual study time he's devoted to current affairs, leafs mentally through all the National Geographic photos that have lodged in his head over the years, looks at the camera resting on his nightstand next to the ( Read more... )

…observations, concepts, choices, and definitions. That's what stops me blogging. Blogging when you have nothing on your mind is easy; blogging when you have too much on your mind forces you to put some sort of order on things before you can begin to type them out. Haven't had time. And now I've got one Final left to go this afternoon and ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to say much about Prop 8. So happy was I with Obama's victory, the defeat of Prop 4 (How many more times do we have to vote that down?), and the passage of Prop 1A (Yay transit!) that I was prepared to grin and bear the affront to civil rights which was voted into my state's constitution on Tuesday. I thought I wanted to ignore the ( Read more... )

We're all going to have to retrain ourselves if we are going to keep our critical thinking faculties sharp while a politician we actually support is in office. Something I think is bound to be especially strange is that Obama is going to be the first Democrat to have the undivided attention of the modern media. It's going to be Camelot rendered ( Read more... )

In the meantime we can speculate like mad. I for one plan to stop paying attention to politics for the rest of the week so as to tend to my grades and then start guessing (Or second guessing) appointments. (Can Barack find a job for Samantha Power? Will Lieberman become the first Secretary of Lavatory Cleanliness? Who will be the Janet Reno of ( Read more... )

I nearly missed the news that he had started calling himself that, and so for one moment I actually found myself wishing that the election could last longer than 6 more days just so I might have more opportunities to watch Biden give stump speeches. But that's crazy talk. This damned election needs to end. And I mean end end. If come next ( Read more... )

They definitely could have been easier, but I could have been better prepared myself. I got my studying habits a bit mixed up adjusting to the idea of semesters rather than quarters. And next time I'm not gonna top the week off by making a 24 hour movie. Yes, that was a mistake that doesn't needed to be repeated. At least not until the next ( Read more... )