Archives for November 2003
November 08, 2003
Lifelong Goals, Updated
For those of you who don't get to hear me babble about this in person:
(1.) Visit every major-league park in a summer.
(2.) DJ an Eighties party (done, 10/2001)
(3.) Write/publish a novel
(4.) Take Sean Connery and Patrick Stuart to IHoP and get them to order the "Rooty Tooty Fresh & Fruity"
(5.) Get rich and powerful enough so that, if I were to yell "Seize him!", someone would actually get seized
(6.) Go to Europe
Not necessarily in that order.
Church Chat
There's a Church Sign Generator over at aboyandhiscomputer.com (which looks like a site worth exploring some more). Here's my first try:
Have at it.
(from Oliver)
November 06, 2003
8-Tracks
Hillary has been blogging like crazy lately; 'tis the season for finding 8-track tapes. I never would have known. I also admire her self-restraint. If I were as devoted to the cause as she, I probably would have come up with some justification to myself to spend $110 if it netted me a Public Image Ltd. and a Siouxsie & the Banshees 8-tracks.
November 04, 2003
Southern Man
Talk about a tempest in an iced-tea pitcher.
This Salon article, which you need a subscription to see in its entirety, gets it just right. Howard Dean said, "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks", and his fading opponents tried to make it sound as if Dean were the ideological cousin of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Are they that clueless, or just missing the point on purpose? Howard Dean is not a Confederate. How clearly can we say that? His point, and it's a crucial point, is that poor and working-class Southerners have been voting Republican because they feel (correctly) that the Democratic Party has abandoned them and (incorrectly) that the Republicans have something better to offer. Dean's point is merely that focusing on their Confederate sticker, and using that as a reason to dismiss the South, is elitist and a good way to lose another election.
I think Dean just wrapped up the "electability" question.
