Archive for November, 2004
Friday, November 12th, 2004
So I'm in the bathroom down the hall from my office ("my" bathroom) taking a piss, and I hear from a stall somebody carrying on a loud conversation. On his cell phone, of course.That is so wrong. I'm not sure why, but it is.
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
This blog has had an atom/xml/rss feed for a while, for those of you who use some kind of RSS aggregator (personally, I like Abilon). But for those of you who don't want to run a desktop aggregator but wouldn't mind joining the wave of the future by taking ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
As always, The Onion rules. Nation's Poor Win Election for Nation's Rich. A taste or two:
WASHINGTON, DC - The economically disadvantaged segment of the U.S. population provided the decisive factor in another presidential election last Tuesday, handing control of the government to the rich and powerful once again."The ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
Fanatical Apathy's Concession Speech is a pretty funny post-election rant. Here's a taste of it:
I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him. I never saw that coming. That's ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
Now that the election has sunk in, I've decided to make a fresh start. I've changed the blog template to a nice clean new one to symbolize the new spirit of unity and political cooperation I'm striving for.Just kidding. New blog template, but I still hate all them ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
There it is. The media is holding off declaring it (after the 2000 election, it's hard to blame them), but when you look at the Ohio numbers, there's no way Kerry's pulling it out there. Evil triumphs over good again; a campaign of lying and fear-mongering keeps the ...
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
I had to explain to my 4-year-old son about voting today, including how we knew who to vote for. I told him "we vote for the Democrats, because Democrats are for sharing and including everyone, and Republicans aren't". Sometimes, parenting helps you get back to basics.
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Monday, November 1st, 2004
Well, I'm sorta likin' the look of things over at electoral-vote.com, which has it at Kerry 298, Bush 231 right now. But way too many states are way too close. I'm gonna be so pissed if that bible-thumping moron gets another 4 years.
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