Tuesday, November 25, 2008
As we pin a kickme note on Bush’s back and shove him out of office, let’s all remember for posterity: Bush is not in any way a bad or poorly executed republican. He is, in a way, the republican ideal. The bumbling everyman that you can trust. He’s as dumb as you and me. He’s [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Ultimately, Obama won by the popular vote by 7%. A pretty enormous margin for a modern election.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Being a dick has consequences:
Worst president ever. It’s not even close.
From nytimes:
Old-school static stretching is bad for you. Do this instead:
STRAIGHT-LEG MARCH
(for the hamstrings and gluteus muscles)
Kick one leg straight out in front of you, with your toes flexed toward the sky. Reach your opposite arm to the upturned toes. Drop the leg and repeat with the opposite limbs. Continue the sequence for at least [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
We Win! Enjoy it, we worked hard for it. To everyone who donated, volunteered and voted, thank you! If you think this is exciting, wait till Obama gets started in office. The competence and grace of his campaign translated into governance is going to blow us all away.
Obama’s press secretary is really kickass.
He’s like a visual combination of my brother Jan and Seth Rogen.
I like how he says everything with raised eyebrows and a smirk and always maintains sorta hypnotic eye contact with his interviewer:
“Give it a chance” is one of the worst excuses to do something. Oh, here’s a crap idea. But, give it a chance before deciding it sucks. That may be fine for some very narrow slice of decisions that are 50-50 decisions, or where there isn’t really any good data to decide with. But, most [...]
Just for fun, my electoral prediction: landslide Obama, with ~320 electoral votes, 55-45 popular vote. 60 senate seats. McCain loses even Az. Cal Prop 8 defeated by 5%. In WA: Burner by 1%, Gregoire by 2%, all spending measures + assisted suicide pass. I’m kinda sick of hedging this election cycle, I kinda want to [...]