Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Obama Wins! (and a personal note)

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States of America! I’m still amazed, honestly. I expected more shenanigans. I expected it to be really close. I expected the ‘good ol’ boy’ network to win again, having used the tactics that they know best; fear, paranoia, and (sadly) even hate. But tonight the [...]

The past week or so…

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I keep meaning to post, I really do! I just keep getting distracted and putting it off. Here’s yet another recap of the past week or so…
Tues - Fri
Worked. Lots of meetings, lots of planning, little actual work got done.
Friday night (Halloween)
Kelly and I went to Concordia Ale House for a beer, and then headed [...]

Weird week, birthdays, and other stuff

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

This whole week has been a bit odd, somehow. It’s hard to explain, it just has. I’ve been feeling a bit more ‘out of it’ than usual. It might be the sudden change in weather since it’s recently gone from horribly hot to cool and (for a few days) rainy. It might also be that [...]

Vice President Cheney says “So?”

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Not sure if you’ve seen this video or not yet, but in an interview with ABC News our Vice President Dick Cheney was confronted with poll data that says “two thirds of Americans say [the war in Iraq is] not worth fighting”, Cheney says “So?”. He goes on to explain how “you cannot be blown [...]

Idiots

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Apparently there was a gang-related shooting a few blocks away from my house at around 4am. Kelly and I were sound asleep, I don’t remember waking up to anything anyway. This isn’t the first thing to happen in our ‘hood’ since we’ve lived here, but this particular even is far less worrying to me. [...]