I got a haircut yesterday. My grades came in today. The sleepless nights of yesterday are past. And rather unexpectedly they even paid off: I got all A's this term. I can't wring much pleasure from this, but at least its there. At a bare minimum, I can claim a rhetorical victory over my previous years of fucking up. Go me.

Bush gave what was supposed to be his big honkin' speech on the "new" Iraq strategy and I still haven't found the time to watch it on CSPAN. Damn it all. Finals are descending upon my head like a plague and I am scrambling to finish every paper in time. I am constantly tired and my sleeping patterns have gone to hell. Heh. And I wake up at 9:00 to ( Read more... )

Whats there to say about Judge Alito? He's another John Roberts. Conservative, smart, and ingratiating. The only difference is the paper record. He's got one, and its pretty lengthy. Barring any self-inflicted injuries, however, the dude is getting confirmed. If Democrats go against him guns-a-blazing, it really won't matter. In fact, it'll just ( Read more... )

How To Become A Republican

Freaky CG Plant Video (.mov file)

Does anyone know if James is going to bring it back or is it gone for good?

You've got to hand it to Bush. While he might be turning Iraq into a clusterfuck and screwing up on the recovery effort in Louisiana, he certainly knows how to pick his judicial nominees. John Roberts is nothing if not intelligent, soft-spoken, conservative, young and handsome. How can you attack a guy like that? You can't. Now Bush is gonna make ( Read more... )

So let me get this straight: our government spends 34 billion on another fucking bureaucracy to ostensibly keep the homeland "safe". The DHS gets THREE DAYS ADVANCE WARNING that a major disaster is poised to strike the Louisiana gulf coast. Let me repeat that: THREE FUCKING DAYS TO PLAN AND PREPARE FOR AN ATTACK THEY KNOW IS COMING. And this is the ( Read more... )

I helped my dad plant about fifty tomato plants the other day. I dug the holes, he did the planting. Can't say I really enjoyed it, but its the first bit of manual labour I've done in a long while. I got a haircut afterward. My head feels two pounds lighter ( Read more... )

Time for some more philosophical bullshit ( Read more... )

Saw this letter to the editor in the WW, thought it was freakin hilarious.GOD IS MY AUTOPILOT ( Read more... )