As can plainly be seen from the map that I stole from CNN.com, My presence in the southeast of Virginia has caused a small island of “blue” (read as “Democrat”) to appear. This, by itself, might not have been enough to swing the election in Webb’s favor (for reference, he’s the VA senate candidate who . . . → Read More: My influence
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Yesterday, the alarm went off at 4. Of course, per usual custom, I had been opening my eyes every 5 minutes or so since 2, to be sure that I wouldn’t miss it. Gee, thanks subconscious. I didn’t want to sleep anyway. . . . → Read More: Long day, in the life of a rock star. Attention: Do not believe the hype. Do not pay attention to the media. On the national offices, this election is not about any particular candidate. I don’t care how bad your local non-Republican is. Vote for them. I’m very sorry for all the candidates for the house and the senate who spent a lot of . . . → Read More: Eeeeee-lection! I’m going on an unexpected business trip next week, M-W (hooray for NASA). Election day is Tuesday. Given the noise I’ve been making about how important it is to wrest congress from the Republicans, I couldn’t in good conscience just skip voting. So I went down to city hall and filed an “Emergency” ballot. This . . . → Read More: I Voted! The wine is totally done. Thank goodness. Pictured here, we have the “Ivory Tower” white, and the “Gemito Liberale” red. More pictures available here I’m going to take a second to be totally unambiguous here: I know that I frequently use hyperbole and over-the-top exaggeration to make points. This is not one of those times. I’m being perfectly serious here. I have three requirements that I’m placing on you: (1) On election day, I expect you to vote. . . . → Read More: Elections I appear to be wracked by the same disease that’s afflicting everyone else in the country. It started out with a couple days of general muscle aches. After that was the truly astonishing mucus production. Now it’s moved on to the ever-popular frog-in-the-throat. I’m on the usual cocktail of 2g of vitamin C, claritin, and . . . → Read More: Ick Voting machines in Florida will apparently “slip out of sync” and register the wrong candidate. Yeah, that’s way f-ing better than hanging chads, people. Check your work, and be mouthy if anything is wrong. |
