Great stuff from Nick: What happened is that most Americans are utterly incapable of conceptualizing the United States as a nation on the defensive and losing the war on terror. Yes, people will acknowledge that terror is a tactic, and then cannot be warred upon any more effectively than, say, deep frying. Yes, people can […]
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http://www.electoral-vote4.com The regular site electoralvote.com was down, electoral-vote2.com was “unavailable” but electoral-vote4 is up and running (he’s got it running on 6 servers for just this reason). If nothing else, Kerry winning means I get to stop bitching about politics until January. Let’s make sure I can take a month-long politics-bitching hiatus, OK? After that:
Blaine reappeared and dropped me off at the train station on his way to his lake house, Jenn is out of town for some much-deserved Halloween debauchery in Las Vegas, and after much perusal of theatre offerings, jazz nights, comedy stuff at Second City, and a good, hard, look at my bank account, I’ve decided
Well, besides the fact that he’s out traveling 2-3 weeks every month, has been known to bring me coffee, never hangs over my shoulder, and takes great stock in my perceived intelligence in matters of reading, research, computer knowledge, and grammer… and seems to assume that I’m psychic…. Blaine burst into the office this morning
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Vandermeer has an interview up with KJ Bishop, who’s book The Etched City, I recently finished re-reading. Great stuff. Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else’s book? K. J. Bishop: Readers should pick up my book and someone else’s. Readers: buy a book instead of a pizza,
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Over at bluesmama, check out the lyrics for her “Blues for J.” You may also be interested in checking out the President uncensored (via boingboing). Also, Amanda’s got some links up about voter fraud and directs us to Voter Video, in which those with video cameras are urged to catch Republicans challenging others’ rights to
I’ve been kinda off this week. Maybe because I spent too much downtime this weekend – I should have gone jogging or gone for a bike ride or something. After this week’s Monday class, I found myself too exhausted, hungry, and shaky to go to my now-usual Tuesday class. Instead, I made sure to eat