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It actually happened. I think I'm in shock. I was absolutely certain that the only way you could get Bush out of the Oval Office was with a crowbar, or you could double dare him of course. I had this picture in my head of Bush breaking through the security cordon, grabbing the Lincoln Bible and sprinting away, yelling " Haha you can't be president now! I'll be president forever, that will show one-term daddy." Or, you know, declaring martial law, or something equally insane. But he didn't. He... Read Full Story

Okay, in my defense, back home I didn't really have time to do anything but shovel snow and nap because in honor of my homecoming, about three hundred feet of snow fell. I spent a lot of the last few weeks thinking about Gaza and Israel and reading through a great many blog entries. Every so often I even sallied forth into the bowels of the internet with a comment or two, or twenty (I'd probably still be arguing there, but Feministing stopped letting me log in. I'm like 99% sure it's a... Read Full Story

Merry Christmas. That's all I have to say at the moment. Huh, being home sort of takes the edge off my rage. Read Full Story

I'm home. So I give you, pictures of me, smiling: It may just be a Christmas shrub, but we handle that by overloading it with ornaments. And, of course, me sitting on the stove, because I like hot butts. Sorry about that, couldn't help myself. And, me, all ready to go shovel snow. Read Full Story

Snow settles over the hills of Eastern Washington like a blanket, covering everything in deep white snow. The surety of a white Christmas sweeps over small children, who rush outside to build snow men, forts and angels. And heard throughout the land, echoing amongst the trees and houses is a single exclamation: "FUCK!" Because for people who actually have things to do and people to see (or vice versa ) it's not pretty, instead it is evil incarnate, come to make you late and make even the... Read Full Story

For some reason, every single one of my finals took place at 8:30 in the morning. I have learned an important lesson from this: Don't just check when your classes meet, check when their finals are. Doneness . Goodness. Sleepiness. Now I head home to spend Christmas with my family. Happy Holidays. Darn I've outed myself as an agent in the War on Christmas . Read Full Story

Okay, so I had two papers to write over this four day weekend, which is all we get for Thanksgiving at UW . Being an idiot, I started with the one due this coming Friday, which of course went easy, smooth as silk. Whole thing took less than three hours to get a first draft. Then came the second paper, due Monday. I could not for the life of me make that stupid paper work. It took me a day to get started, a second day to do enough research to feel moderately competent and a third day to work... Read Full Story

After twelve years of sitting beside Sean Hannity , Alan Colmes has retired . What to say about him? It's hard to think of what to write about a man who has spent twelve years sitting silently in a corner; whose sole job was to provide visual proof of Fox News' commitment to fair and balanced reporting: Look the show is hosted by a liberal and a conservative! It must be fair and balanced, one on each side! 1=1! I don't know why Colmes accepted the job, maybe he was in deep to his bookie, or... Read Full Story

One of the many odd things I've stumbled over wandering the web when I should be working: "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 16 WHEREAS, The members of the 116 th General Assembly of Ohio wish to recognize the rock song "Hang On Sloopy " as the official rock song of the great State of Ohio; and ... WHEREAS, If fans of jazz, country-and-western, classical, Hawaiian and polka music think those styles also should be recognized by the state, then by golly, they can push their own resolution just... Read Full Story