A little late for that...
"Americans Still Concerned About Bush Agenda, Poll Shows" [nytimes.com]
Y'all should have thought of that a few weeks ago.
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November 22, 2004
November 15, 2004
Marathon 2
Todd was spending the entire time cheering on anyone wearing an Italia shirt. It was beautiful
November 12, 2004
Nice prank
Someone apparently hijacked the West 4th St. subway station LED sign to make it read "PRETTY GIRLS DON'T RIDE THE SUBWAY". My favorite quote from the article:
"'That's horrible,' she said of the sign. 'I'm pretty, and I take the subway every day.'"
Marathon 1
Watching the runners head up Bedford Ave.
November 11, 2004
Comment spam
Ugh. I just deleted about 100 comment spam (thanks KP for pointing it out). WTF? If I wanted to play online poker with my cialis-enhanced coffee grinder, I would do so.
November 8, 2004
KP ist der hammar!
This weekend I had the pleasure of flying back to New York to surprise my friend KP while he ran the NYC marathon. It was totally awesome: not only did KP do extremely well (4:17:52), but it was a beautiful day and I got to spend it with some really good friends. Since I got home at almost 2 am, photos will go up later but some others: tien mao's, limonada's and rion's.
As a bonus, on my flight back (which had, incidentally, about 10 passengers who had run the marathon), I got to see the northern lights, which I haven't seen since I was about five years old.
Update: KP has written an excellent write-up of his experiences. Definitely worth the read.
November 5, 2004
Marriage
Really, this says volumes more than I could ever possibly say myself. The sanctity of marriage is best protected when two people take marriage for what it is: a solemn pledge before witnesses to be committed to each other forever.
"Keith and I didn't get married to commit a pioneering act of civil disobedience, to 'redefine marriage' as President Bush claimed during his campaign, or to outrage the religious right. We took our vows because getting hitched seemed like the sane next step of our commitment. We figured the best way to defend the sanctity of marriage was to have one and live up to the promises we made to one another."
November 3, 2004
California Weather
Seen today in a company-wide email:
"Outside, right now...it's HAILING!"
Everybody had to go to a window to look. Silly Californians.....
Lift up your voice
It would seem that my voice wasn't loud enough. Neither, it would seem, was yours. While I am, at least, relieved that it doesn't look like we will have a lawsuit determine the President of the United States, the implications of last night's election results are simply too frightening for words. In Mississippi, some 86% of the voting population voted to officially make homosexuals second-class citizens. In Kentucky, a man was re-elected to the Senate despite using a teleprompter during a debate and joking that his opponent looked like one of Saddam Hussein's sons. Dubbya will get to name two, possibly three, justices to the Supreme Court and, in this political climate, he will have little difficulty putting another Scalia or Thomas on the bench. Can you say checks and balances? You may not be able to four years from now.
After the 2000 election, Karl Rove is reported to have been furious because he calculated there were 4 million more conservative Christian voters than had actually voted. If you look at the popular vote margin, it is just a little bit less than four million. Maybe he was right after all. The right did its job - it galvanized and got the vote out. To be fair, though, the left did its job too, just not as well.
Just not as well.
It boils down to that. We all owe it to ourselves and to our country to continue to build on how hard we worked to vote out Dubbya. Keep the level of dialog as intense as it has been. If you overhear a Republican talking politics, don't try to hit them with your car - histrionics and extremism only give them comfort that they're right - calmly debate them and talk to them. Continue to write polite but firm letters to the editor. Be heard. It won't get any better if we crawl into our shells and bemoan the reddening of middle America (as I was last night).
November 2, 2004
Oh, um, yes
By the way.
Ugh
I'm trying very hard to not spend the entire day today freaking out about the elections. Paul Krugman (who has become just a little too partisan for my taste in recent years) made me feel a little better with a column [nytimes.com - registration blah] about how he is humbled and encouraged by long lines to vote. In general, though, I read these reports about challengers in polling places and lawyers gearing up lawsuit arguments and I get depressed. Regardless of who "wins" today there will be endless recounts, challenges and biased judicial decisions. Is democracy dead in the United States?