jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
random snatches of babbling are driving me nuts.
dialogue heard in passing this morning: “i don’t agree with gay marriage, but it doesn’t matter if i voted for george bush because congress won’t pass the amendment anyway.” i’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of it.
this from someone who married someone who is not an american citizen.
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karl rove was on “meet the press” and various sunday shows yesterday. i didn’t watch any of them, as i’m still on my news fast. getting over the overload.
i did see a clip of him on fox news. i wasn’t watching fox news; some other channel ran the fox news clip. just to clarify.
and, of course, he claimed his mandate from 51% of americans and proclaimed that mr. bush would be hotly pursuing the passage of the anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment. it’s a priority.
you could have put money on that. but we were getting screwed by the democrats too.
Continue reading “two-sided demonization”
i’m forcing myself to change the subject today. not, understand, because this massively messed-up election and electorate isn’t on my mind twenty-four seven. because it is. i dream about it, and i daydream about it. and i’m far from finished with telling you what i think. i haven’t even really started yet on the governmental and economic inequities between red and blue states, which is becoming my obsessive passion.
but i have to force myself to take a break, because my little inner voice is telling me to do so. not those big loud voices that talk to me inside my head, which i’ve had to name to palliate them a bit. not those. my little self-preservation voice is telling me to do so.
so i’ll tell you about richard teeter, and el goya.
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…but this random email that came from i don’t know where is just really well written. and says just about everything i’d want to say on the subject of fear and terrorism and this country and this election. so, i’m taking the night off, and you click on more, and read all about it. here ’tis:
Continue reading “i know it’s cheating”
always. always. straight ticket.
except once. one vote for a republican, just once. it was for sheriff of alachua county, gainesville, fl. i was talked into it by a woman i carpooled with–her husband was on the force, she knew both candidates, and swore she wasn’t steering me wrong.
well the republican sheriff must have worked out fine–at least he never arrested me, so that’s something right there.
otherwise, all democrats. every time.
but now i’m wondering.
Continue reading “lifelong democrat (?)”
from a wall street journal article headlined “victory suggests rightward move by the electorate”:
“i always thought love would trump hate,” says bush strategist matthew dowd. because it did, mr. bush’s 51%-48% popular vote edge precisely matched mr. dowd’s pre-election forecast, even as national polls pointed toward a much closer race.
yes indeed. love trumped hate. how exactly did love trump hate? let’s see.
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so much for optimism.
not only did bush win, but he won due partly, or perhaps even mainly, due to the vast turnout generated by the gay marriage bans, all of which passed by huge margins. even in oregon, which has so successfully beat back these amendments for so many years.
Continue reading “(red, white) and (blue)”
this will be quick, as i don’t want to miss the news etc.
but
it’s looking pretty good.
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it’s all over but the shouting. the packers won yesterday. the quote of the day from the cnn website:
“the packers’ 28-14 victory over the redskins yesterday, which, as you’re sick of hearing by now, means you don’t need to vote tomorrow, because kerry has already won.”
Continue reading “thanks to the packers”
ok…two days to go. and this article on evangelical voting makes sense and is making me feel a bit better.
Continue reading “cautiously optimistic”
this one goes out to the brave hero on the subway who stopped the homeless man from peeing in a bottle.
i’ll get there. it may take a while.
i like my neighborhood in new york city. it’s called inwood. for those of you who have a vision of manhattan as nothing but tall buildings and wide streets, you’d be surprised to see my area of manhattan, which is tall not buildings, but tall trees.
Continue reading “gentrifying yuppie scumbags”
nothing says romance like doing a spreadsheet for the one you love. that’s what i’ve always said.
Continue reading “friday i’m in love”
nervous, jittery, second-guessing, whatever. bob novak has an interview with zogby, the pollster, who is now saying that “the president is more likely to be re-elected because he has reinforced support from his base, including married white women.”
Continue reading “getting nervous”
remember, you heard it here first. or second.
the latest idea to hit the electoral fan is a movement afoot to make voting into a free lottery.
Continue reading “vote and win!”
eminem and the poison girls. two quick things.
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i made a little joke about this subject this weekend, in conversation. i’ll throw it in somewhere. but, especially on a cold rainy-ish monday, i have to tackle this biggest of subjects sometime. plus, my opinions should be down in black and white, in case someone needs to see it. my will has all the legal stuff, but this is the cool stuff. so here goes.
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i’m not going to ramble as usual. getting right to the point. focusing. omitting needless words. strunk would be proud of me. as george bush the elder said when reading the notes to the speech rather than the speech itself, “message: i care.” and i do. about you, my dear reader. and about this great land of ours.
so no wasting your time when it comes to something this important, something so crucial as my official endorsement of a presidential candidate. if you’re undecided, click “more” and read on.
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i’m gonna vote. i always do, even in the little elections where you go and have no idea who all these judges are that no one is running against. but i’m really not convinced that it all gets added up correctly. after all, the people running the voting are just human. and pretty stupid humans at that.
i voted for president in 2000. here’s my story.
Continue reading “my vote count?”
i’m in physical therapy now. i had back surgery a few months ago. so after a suitably miserable recovery period, i have to go three times a week for medieval stretching sessions dictated by heinrich himmler, except that he looks exactly like kim basinger, only more attractive. feel very, very sorry for me.
Continue reading “griping about griping”
good for the red sox. although i really didn’t watch much of the series with the yankees. baseball at it’s best is all about delayed pleasure, which is the only reason anyone is a red sox fan in the first place. so how better to really be a true hardcore baseball fan than to not watch what you just knew was going to be a historic series of games, no matter what actually happened?
Continue reading “entitlement begone”