Women *Love* Abortions

Stop Teasing Us!

Give it to me, now!

Bracing Myself

You may notice that some things around the blog have changed. I have regrettably had to abandon my "I just can't picture myself sleeping with a non-voter" banner because it wouldn't fit right, but I still fully expect all of you to vote! Unless you're voting for John McCain. Then you can stay home.

I had to do all of this blog revamping because Wren had the brilliant idea of incorporating some NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) stuff in her blog, and I had to follow suit. I managed to make a little html/div box (on your right) all by myself! All right, Wren helped. But it still rocks. I have a general participant icon that links to the main website for NaNoWriMo, as well as a theoretical book cover for the theoretical book that I will theoretically be writing 50,000 words of during November. I also have a little Word War meter that shows Wren's and my word counts together.

So I'm finally psyched about working on this story again! I've got Word documents made up for each of the thirty days already so I can keep everything meticulously organized, and all of my notes for "Twenty Feet" thus far are in order, though I'm mostly going to try to start again and see where that gets me. I'm all registered and all my information is up on the NaNoWriMo site, so now all I have to do is get up on November 1 and start writing!

Won't you join me?

Fun with Politics

So because of this whole "Joe the Plumber" debacle, John McCain's website has offered to make personalized rally signs with your name and occupation on one side and "Don't Tax Me for Working Hard" on the other side. Once I saw this, the urge to abuse the online form was irresistible:

A classic:


It's hard times for professional Explorers these days:


And my personal favorite (and tribute to my parents):


Trevor and I also thought of Bob the Builder, Jack the Ripper, and Ichi the Killer. Can you think of any other fun sign opportunities? Have your own fun at John McCain's website!

I wonder what would happen if we actually ordered one of these. I bet Bob the Builder could slip by.

I Love Obama Even More

Obama is hilarious (for the most part) at the Al Smith Dinner:

Part One:


Part Two:

Dear Senator McCain

Dear Senator McCain,

1) It's not a "choice" anymore if you remove all alternatives.

2) Downs Syndrome and Autism are not even remotely similar. Unless you count the fact that under your policies, it will be impossible to get affordable treatment for either.

3) No Child Left Behind does not work. Period. You cannot treat schools like small businesses. When you make schools compete, children lose. What's that, Jimmy? You wanted to learn how to play the violin? Too bad, your school doesn't have enough funding to provide a music program because President McCain decided your WASL scores weren't high enough.

4) I'll let the Canadians know that their oil is "fine."

5) Not wanting a massive oil spill or nuclear fallout is not "extreme environmentalism." There's no reason to drill offshore if we have oil under the ground, and nuclear power is not "completely safe"!

If you somehow become President, I'm leaving the country, because in four years, there won't be much of one left to live in. No public services, no health care, no social security, terrible education no jobs, and no regard for the environment. The rest of the world already dislikes and laughs at us. Don't make them pity us.

No love,
A Concerned Citizen

Metaphorical Crisis

My Dad is an economist. And he is fed up with the crappy analogies and models for the Financial Crisis. So he came up with one of his own to explain the situation to me:

"I got one:
It's like your cardio-vascular system: a hedge fund has just plunged a knife into your carotid artery and now investors are stomping on your abdomen forcing the blood out faster and the Fed is trying to apply pressure while Bush nicely tells the investors to just calm down and stop jumping up and down but because you are anemic due to sub prime mortgage debt you cannot clot.
Is this working for you?"

It's actually a really good analogy, in my humble opinion.
I love my Dad.

RIP Basil

"Not even a sparrow, worth only half a penny, can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it"

Matthew 10:29


We're going to miss you, little guy. You had a lot more living left to do. I hope the time you did have here was as happy as it seemed. Perhaps you're pea-fishing in Rat Heaven.

VP Debate

One word: nucular.

Every time she said it I think I lost a significant number of brain cells.



And people love her!




Also, this is awesome:

Yes!

I Love Olympia

As I walked to the coffee shop today to get my mid-morning snack of pumpkin bread, I admired what a lovely day it is. A slight haze of clouds keeps the sun from being too bright and the temperature from getting too hot. I was on my way to a locally-owned coffee shop to buy a bagel made by a locally-owned bagel company. Truly Olympian!

As I passed the alley behind my building, I noticed that a teenage boy was standing next to the wall with headphones on, merrily spray-painting graffiti on the wall. How is nobody but me seeing this, I wondered. What gutsy kid is out doing graffiti in the middle of the day? And then I remembered: the wall behind my building is a city-sanctioned official graffiti wall. Anyone is allowed to graffiti there, and when the wall gets too full, the city paints it over in white again so that there will be room for new graffiti. How cool is that?

I love Olympia.