Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Monday, January 29th, 2007
While waiting for the light to change at the corner of 14th and 3rd this morning, a girl blew cigarette smoke in my face while I was taking a swig of juice. The taste of the hundreds of chemicals masked the taste of my juice. It was disgusting. I nearly choked. And I ...
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
Dammit, it's a National Day of Mourning, and I'm stuck at work!
Even worse, my clients are off today, so I have nothing to do.
Come on! I could be sleeping shopping mourning right now!
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
This message was posted on the Facebook Wall of a political candidate I actually voted for this morning:
Congratulations, Brittney Sullivan, for single-handedly setting back the women's movement by several decades! I'm really proud that you and I pulled the same lever this morning... or do you believe you shouldn't be ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
It's Election Day! I made my visit to the polls first thing this morning, but there's plenty of time left today to get out there and vote.
To motivate you to get out there and do your civic duty, I've provided some Get Out The Vote Slogans For Those Who Think ...
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Dear John Kerry,
Shut the fuck up. Seriously. I see you weren't content with just blowing the Democrats' chances in 2004, so you're going ahead and doing it again in 2006. Way to go, dumbass.
And then, once you fuck up, you go and call it a botched joke insist, "I was ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
(Or, Chris' passion for politics makes a rare appearance)
An investigation into the teen page sex scandal that has rocked Washington, D.C., in recent days is expected to last weeks, not months, members of the House Ethics Committee announced today. A subcommittee looking into the matter issued four dozen subpoenas today ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Former Congressman Mark Foley: Alleged homosexual. Alleged child molester. Confirmed grammar criminal.
Recent Stops on the Grammar Patrol: Not So Scholarly, Luck of the Irish, Early Edition
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
I nearly fell off my treadmill on Sunday morning when I heard these words on CBS Sunday Morning:
"It's amazing how many Republicans call me for support. And then they go, 'You're a Republican right?' And you go, 'Well I'm actually a lifetime Democrat.'"
Do you know who said those words?
It couldn't ...
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Everyone bitched and moaned about Facebook's new feature, saying it's akin to stalking. What the 700,000 signers of a petition seem to forget is that all of this information was available before on Facebook, just not all in one place. Sure, it makes stalking easier, but if you're going to ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
In case you didn't get the memo, the Department of Homeland Security created a list of potential terrorist targets in the United States. Among all states, Indiana led the list with over 8,000 targets. Even New York State only had about 5,000 (the Statue of Liberty? Not on the list. ...
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