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December 15, 2008

Um, We Still Have A Secret Service, Right?

I mean, WTF, man?

12-15-2008 08:24:12AM - Permalink - Comment [2] - Trackback

December 02, 2008

I'm Impressed With Ford

The Ford Story (which features the attached video) runs down Ford's argument in favor of a Detroit bailout and their perspective on it.

I don't find it impressive in terms of how persuasive it is... I'm just stunned that someone at the company had the common sense to put something like this together at all. So many companies are utterly tone-deaf, making this attempt at reaching out to the consumer/voter rather extraordinary.

12-02-2008 09:41:09PM - Permalink - Comment [1] - Trackback

November 08, 2008

To All of Those Who Threatened to Leave the Country If Obama Lost...

I just watched an episode of Forensic Files featuring a Mexican man who was imprisoned for two-and-a-half years on a murder conviction. He was released when new evidence demonstrated that his wife had actually committed suicide, as he had claimed all along.

What did he do, when released from wrongful imprisonment by the legal system of the United States? Turned around, swore an oath to this country, and became a citizen.

So fuck ya'll quitters, okay?

11-08-2008 01:13:41AM - Permalink - Comment [26] - Trackback

November 07, 2008

What I Have To Live With

After years of people giving me shit, I finally registered to vote in 2004. And the first vote I cast for a president was for John Kerry, a guy I didn't really care about, one way or another.

Four years later, I've got another shot. And this time, I like the guy for whom I'm voting. As a bonus, if he wins, I'll have been part of a pretty historic moment in the nation's progression. Cool stuff.

Except that I managed to spend the entire day puking, and end it in the ER for the second time in five days. No vote cast, no participation at all. I was so zonked out on anti-nausea meds that I didn't even get to watch the returns. I missed every aspect of it.

Honestly, it's like it didn't happen. Thanks to my malfunctioning gall bladder, the last week has been nothing but pain, needles, scalpels, and pills. I have zero emotional connection to an event that should have been so much bigger than "the day I horked cracker puke all over the xray tech's bathroom."

It's weird how life can manage to rob you of those little touchstone moments that keep you resonating with other people. I imagine some poor bastard in '69, coughing up a lung in some hospital, missing the moon landing. I've always wondered what it must have been like to see that happen in the moment... now I find myself feeling sad kinship with those who were there and still managed to miss it.

11-07-2008 04:09:25PM - Permalink - Comment [1] - Trackback

Where McCain Won

First, his concession speech was better than Obama's acceptance. By a mile.



And his SNL visit was better than Obama's and Palin's put together.






11-07-2008 03:57:29PM - Permalink - Comment [0] - Trackback