If the results of my poll are any indication, I apparently have three regular readers of my blog. That's not too depressing.
Out of the six voters who shared their views on whether the existence of polls would lead them to visit my site more often, two said that they would stop by more often (you're the real heros!), two think I'm lazy, and two were just looking for the bathroom. I voted for one of the first two choices, but I can't remember which. If you're struggling with the math, this means that of the six voters, two happened to pound randomly on just the right combination of keys, three visited intentionally for some reason, and one was me.
I'm sleepy.
I haven't slept too many hours this week, and I should probably work on that. I will go to sleep earlier tonight, and then maybe I'll be less sleepy! It sounds crazy, but the crazy people are the ones who change the world.
I'm like a mad scientist. I'm also sleepy.
These two need to have a show together. Nay, our country needs it.
Without the audience, though. To be honest, I generally really can't stand the Stewart/Colbert audiences. They come across as like, well, liberal puppets.
You know, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I'm calling it: When The O'Reilly Factor and The Daily Show have run their respective courses, there will come to be The Daily Factor. Or The Daily O'Reilly. Or The Factor Show Daily The. Put your money on that last one.
Part 2:
I just filled up my tank for $1.98/gallon. What's going on here?? I mean, I'm not complaining...but this is getting weird.
Best. recession. ever.
I'm posting this from my car. Hi, my name is Tim and I'm a geek.
Best. recession. ever.
I'm posting this from my car. Hi, my name is Tim and I'm a geek.
Yes, I can! ...Write a blog entry about something other than current events! I can and I will!
It's true, you know.
First, I will make a statement about future events. (See, I'm sticking with my promise.) Here's a prediction: with a black president, we will start to see steadily increasing numbers of minority-group Republicans. Why? Well, as people feel less disenfranchised, they generally become more conservative. Everyone's saying this is the beginning of the end for the Republican Party, but I say it's just the opposite. I'll check back with y'all in about a dozen years.
And nooo, of course I don't have any citations for my claims. I said it because it makes sense to me. Things that make sense to me are automatically true. Accept it!
(As an aside (and by using the word "aside," this is automatically not an official part of the post and therefore isn't held to the restrictions defined above), how did Proposition 8 pass in California? How did that happen? In that prototypically liberal state? More like a state of confusion, I say (see what I did there??).)
Switching gears, here are some random thoughts that I've made note of in the past couple weeks...
- When heard on the radio, Seth Rogan sounds like he is at least 50 years old.
- Speaking of radio, I swear that every time I come across a rural pop/rock radio station, it's playing a Savage Garden song.
- Chocolate Axe sounds like a horrible idea. I'm assuming that it came into existence via focus groups of women who said that they like chocolate, and then a boardroom of men who determined that women must therefore be sexually attracted to men who smell like chocolate. Next up: buffalo chicken eau de parfum for her.
- The mayor of one of the towns near me is a stripper. Yes, a stripper and a mayor. Simultaneously. For real.
- Many people hate them (one of my high school English teachers especially seethed over them), but I think that parentheses can serve as wonderful tools in prose. They're like 3-D glasses for written word! (Just make sure you don't wear them where they don't belong, or else you'll look rather silly and you'll probably get a headache.)
When was the last time that we've been able to watch people all around the country dance in the streets? Masses of genuinely happy and hopeful people? And it wasn't involving a sports team?
Whether you like Obama or not, you gotta admit that America's really been injected with something.
I'm watching a political analyst hold back tears on TV.
I took the "World's Smallest Political Quiz" today! It's supposed to be accurate and stuff.
I'm a left-leaning Centrist. Yup, that sounds about right. And it looks like I'm slightly more Libertarian than Statist. What's that...top-leaning?
So, how did everyone else line up?
So the news on Friday was that the Chicago Tribune has endorsed Obama for president. This is the first time that they've ever endorsed a Democrat, and only the third time that they've endorsed a non-Republican (Teddy "rough rider" Roosevelt was the last one in 1912). It looks like the Los Angeles Times threw their endorsement in too, and the last candidate that they officially gave a thumbs-up to was Nixon. Yowza. Who's next, the National Review? The world's gone topsy-turvy!
Yeah, I said "yowza." And yesss, I found this story while voluntarily reading foxnews.com. Don't get me wrong, I still rely entirely Comedy Central to give me all my news and analysis. Comedy Central can be fair or balanced, and I like that they keep it simple by shooting for only one at a time. I'd say that when it comes to news reporting, "fair and unbalanced" and "balanced and unfair" each have their own special merits.
Remember when Jon Stewart was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly, and Bill kept referring to the Daily Show audience as stoned slackers? That was fun.
Guess what? I'm going to talk about my life for a couple minutes! But later I will talk about other stuff. Sorry, you'll have to take both. That's just how I roll.
So, the last couple of weeks were filled with some ups and downs...
Two work weeks in a row were only four days long; that's good! But I had to jam five days of work into four days; that's bad. I got to see Michelle in Boston and have the best time ever; that's good!!! But I had to leave on Monday in order to go back to work on Tuesday; that's bad. I got free food to bring back with me; that's good! Some of the food contained potassium benzoate. That's bad. Overall, I definitely netted in the positive. And that's good.
It was so perfectly wonderful to see Michelle, and we were lucky enough to have weather that allowed us to go just about everywhere without driving. And if you're familiar with Boston, you know that's a very desirable thing. Boston's train system, the "T," was like a weird alternate reality version of Chicago's "L." It was organized, clean, quiet, and it didn't smell like pee. These are qualities that I usually look for in my choices for transportation.
In short, the weekend was filled with aquatic animals, dead revolutionaries, fried and chowdered clams, suspiciously delicious Brazilian food, invigoratingly dangerous traffic circles, and kitchen collaborations over french toast. How can you possibly improve on that? Maybe with chocolate syrup on the french toast, but that's all I can come up with.
Ohhhh, I want to write more, but I'm getting too tired to concentrate. I'm going to hit "publish," but maybe I'll put in an addendum later. Yes, let's do that. Good night.
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Okay, before I go to bed, I present to you yet another video. This one is mostly for Michelle, though. It's perfect material for a paper! You can thank me later when I'm the reason that you aced that Shakespeare class of yours.
Oh John McCain, you sneaky fellow, you! Just when we thought that you exhausted everything from your bag o' 100% truths, you throw yet another one at us! So what's going on with this Obama-Ayers connection that our friend Sarah brought up the other day? Why in the world would Barack Hussein Obama II pal around with a terrorist who tried to bomb the Pentagon in the 60s? How did we not know about this before?? Those sneaky Democrats managed to keep this hidden for all this time! Clearly, this is a crucial piece of the puzzle in finally pinning down the true dark identity of the mysterious fellow who's trying to sneak into the White House to destroy it from the inside. With only 30 or so days left, this discovery came just in the nick of time!
Wait...hold on a second. Someone else is trying to talk to me...
What's that you say? This terrorist guy isn't Obama's best buddy in the whole wide world? The two just sat in the same rooms together in the 90s during talks about education and community reform? Obama didn't laugh and joke with him about the destruction of all that the Flag stands for over bottles of imported beer?
Ha! Well, see, that can't be possible! I mean, if Obama wasn't pals with a terrorist, then that means that the McCain campaign is, well, smearing him. And that's just silly. Don't you remember McCain telling us a while back that using smear tactics in politics simply means that you have no substance to run on? Let me tell you, all these character attacks on Obama have to be true because McCain is hardly even talking about the economic crisis. He did say "country first," right? The economy is important, when when you're talking about the welfare of our people, you have to be willing to find balance and compromise. I haven't heard much more than a peep about much else lately, so these facts about Obama's previously-unknown character must be very serious and definitely a top priority! We need to protect America from would-be leaders who have lived near domestic terrorists -- terrorists who run free in the streets of Chicago and teach at radical Islamic universities! What's that place called where Ayers works? UIC? Who even knows what that stands for! And don't get me started about Obama knowingly and actively engaging in education reform and anti-poverty committees with miscreants. Terrorist education reform and anti-poverty committees. So typical.
Be strong, McCain and Palin. Don't listen to all those freedom-hating liberals who accuse you of running a shallow and hypocritical political campaign. Don't listen to those spins about irrelevant associations with husbands who belonged to anti-American Alaskan succession groups. Don't listen to those small minds who choose to ask questions and point out incongruencies! You know what's best for this country, and you know what it means to put country first. You've clearly proved to us: it means that you must win, no matter what!
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