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A fighting liberal
As we prepare as a nation to shrink from reality for another year, I would encourage you to read this:
Beautiful and forceful. Let’s dedicate 2008 to standing up for what’s important, and not letting other people define us. If we do that, we win – no matter what the outcome.
I’m a little afraid myself
For voters like them, Huckabee’s appeal is pretty plain. “He fears God,” said Scott Bailey, from just outside Otley, Iowa, where he’s president of a network of conservative Christian home-schoolers. “Apart from that, nothing else matters to me in a candidate.”
-Salon article on Mike Huckabee’s campaign
Happy 2008, America.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
According to a study done at UC-Berkeley, we create between one and two exabytes of new information each year.
An exabyte is one billion gigabytes.
My Christmas Eve menu
Crab and cream cheese appetizer
Chex mix
Cranberry holiday punch
Mustard and herb-crusted beef tenderloin
Potato gratin with thyme and gouda
Horseradish carrots
Homemade rolls
Caesar salad
Buche de Noel (Yule log cake)
Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream: Zanzibar and Mint Avalanche
Christmas cookies
Quote of the Week
“Seriously- the Republican field is just an exercise in absurdity. The leading candidates are a flat-earth religious huckster, a serial liar, and a cross-dresser with an authoritarian streak and mob ties. Is this really the best the GOP has to offer?”
-John Cole, Balloon Juice
God I’m old
Apparently, Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney’s younger sister, is pregnant. I just heard on radio news that the father is her “long-term boyfriend.”
She is 16.
Pluto’s not a planet anymore, either
Present day:
Joe Lieberman, who ran as an independent in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary, endorses John McCain for president.
2006 campaign:
“I want Democrats to be back in the majority in Washington and elect a Democratic president in 2008.”
-Joe Lieberman
And to think – this guy was the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate in 2000. We are so fucked up.
Listening to: “A Few Words In Defense of Our Country,” Randy Newman
I am totally not making this up
The mug shot of Mike Huckabee’s son David that the press is using to discuss how Huck Jr. tortured, stabbed and hanged a dog while he was a teenager comes from this year, when Huck Jr. was caught at the airport with a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.
Family values, people.
Between this and how Mitt Romney left his dog in the roof carrier on a 12-hour drive, should we be worried about Republicans’ dogs in general?