November 2007 archive

Now we get to the part of the year where it starts to get really dark.

Not only is the light flatter, but it streams in where there used to be leaves and just screws with your body clock.  Saturday we fall back into what is a routine of depression for me where time is out of joint and I am always SAD.  The fact that it’s election season does not improve my mood.

I’ve been accosted by well meaning Thugs outside my grocery store and there was a point where I would listen to their blandishments.  As bad as their party was, here in Stars Hollow is was the anti-development party.

I can no longer do that.  Among other things they have changed, taken over by the same wing nut Theocrat/Plutocrat alliance that dominates the national debate.  24% dead enders and prattling dittoheads it’s all I can do to keep from spitting at them as I brush them aside.

Ho, ho, ho.

We’ll have a new voting system here this year.  Fill in the dot SAT cards after levers all my life.  The handle that opened and closed the curtain made a satisfying ca-ching as it recorded your vote.

Stars Hollow has “non-partisan” positions, offices mandated for x amount of Thugs and x amount of Democrats.  I used to vote for them all, now I’ll be damned if a Thug gets a flip of the finger from me unless it’s the middle one.

Please remember to vote, and get out the vote, even for your local elections.  We must tear these people out root and branch.  Only time I ever missed voting since I was eligible I had a car accident rushing to the polls.

And so it begins…

Welcome to NaNoWriMo (aka National Novel Writing Month) and Day One.

I spent a healthy chunk of the midnight hour punching out the first bits of what will hopefully be a 50,000 word novel.

And so here’s my first paragraph:

A while ago a friend told me about how he and his buddies would get together and tell outrageous combat stories. He said that the big ones always seemed to start with “So there I was”…and they’d go from there.

Dennis Shulman, the progressive blind rabbi and psychologist looking to unseat Scott Garrett (R) in NJ-5 this 2008, will join Howie Klein for an open conversation at FDL this Saturday, November 3, at 2:00 PM Eastern.

Listen and join in the conversation to learn more about this extraordinary man and his truly unorthodox campaign.

So, yesterday was the day for all of the ghouls and goblins, and the really scary ones dressed up as Dick or W.  It was also a good day to sit back and enjoy a really good horror movie.  Here are some that you may or may not have heard of:

Chief Black Kettle:

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

“Waterboarding is torture – I did it myself”

So declared advisor to Dept of Homeland Security Malcom Nance, publicly repudiating the practice reborn from the middle ages in new and improved form by the Bush Administration. Although the Pentagon has been “banned” from using waterboarding by Congress, the same technique described below has NOT been banned from being used by the CIA.