Is it safe to hope yet? Governor's race looks good, Representative's race looks pretty good, and the Senate race also looks pretty good. I got my hopes up four years ago, and was screwed over.

It's hard to trust again.

I'm feeling extremely partisan lately, and I don't even watch all those attack ads they're running nowadays. From Congress condoning torture, suspending habeus corpus, the pedophile scandal with the Republican chair of the committee that investigates pedophiles (and the Republicans knowing about this for 10 months without saying anything), and a ( Read more... )

My head hurts. I was going to go off on a tirade about how this is a good thing as it shows I'm alive and not numb, and I had some fancy-shmancy concepts I was brewing together for an intellectual post, and how this ties to each and every one of your lives. However, my head does indeed hurt, and I can't stare at this screen any longer. Is this some ( Read more... )

Alright, I finally got myself together to take pictures of my garden. Warning, like ten big pictures ahead.

( Forge on! )

Not to offend the religious types, but I swear to God, there is a metric assload of vestigal and downright harmful parts in a human being, be it useless pouches, awkward gaps, inefficient reflux mechanisms, tiny nodes whose sole purpose is to put bad things into our blood or gastrointestinal tract, tiny nodes that do absolutely nothing, organs ( Read more... )

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I've re-realized an old prejudice lately: Baptists, especially Southern Baptists. While I've only met a handful in real life that have actively pissed me off (and quite a few that were a lot of fun), the news/net/LJ is riddled with Baptists-gone-bad, especially in the realms of religious freedom, gay prejudices, and anti-science rhetoric. Every ( Read more... )

Cristin and I agree on a lot, but the country/city dichotomy (and consequentially, the extrovert/introvert dichotomy) seems to be one where we're pretty far off from each other. I never really though of myself as a country boy until I had been with her for a year ( Read more... )

Full weekend. Saturday, we went to Erie, PA (every time I say that in my head, the Gary, Indiana song comes into my head, after a vacation in which three-fourths of our family was insanely slaphappy from a long day in the car, and as we stopped for the night in Erie, PA, we turned to song). Kind of awkward, as we were going to Katie and Rita's ( Read more... )

Poll Tabouleh - Because I'm going to lose my polling ability in a week.