let's stumble towards success and pack some snacks for little breaks

Everybody's been crowing about Vermont all day, but did you guys see this? It's not as good as actually legalizing gay marriage, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

Goddammit, California. :/

Jack Black as Jesus is just about the best thing ever. And "Abomination! Obama-nation!" made me giggle.

Thanks to hahathor for this one:

I saw Ralph Nader speak a few hours ago. He's doing some stunt, trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most political speeches in one day or something. (And he told us, with a straight face, that he's doing it in an effort to get people to take him seriously.) I was right up front, so I got to dodge the spit flecks while he yelled about corporations and how Barack Obama is the Antichrist. I did like what he said about marijuana legalization--that even if addiction is a problem, it's a health problem like nicotine addiction, not a criminal problem. And he ended with the word "bullshit." Most of it was geared very well toward college students, but he screwed himself over by demonizing Obama.

It was interesting, anyway. Worth waiting the 45 minutes he was late.

Now, I don't really understand the full political implications of this Russia-Georgia conflict. I don't think anyone does. But it seems clear to me that it's important, and that US missile base in Poland worries me, so I've been following the situation pretty closely. It looks like Condoleezza Rice has been jetting all over the place--meeting with Sarkozy in France, Saakashvili in Georgia, and now she's off to Brussels to chat with folks from NATO and the EU.

Guess where Bush is?

Yep. His Texas ranch.

Oh, but he didn't leave until yesterday. He was going to go on Thursday. He postponed his trip a whole day, just to be sure WWIII wouldn't ruin his vacation. Such sacrifice!

As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said. --this article

From shoutingboy, a video that ought to get Obama a few votes:



Worksafe, if your bosses don't mind you clawing your eyes out and cramming them into your ears.

I JUST REALIZED I'LL BE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE IN THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Pardon my capslock. I'm rather excited about this.

McCaskill: YES.
Stem cell research: YES.
Minimum wage raise: YES.
Light rail: YES.

This election has seriously changed my attitude toward this state. I think, for the first time in the three years since we moved, I am proud to live here.