I try to avoid it, but it's everywhere. It's that crap conventional wisdom stuff.

Oh my god, is Jilli around? Apparently her rock star crush and my rock star crush regularly get together to read comics and play Warhammer, and I think I'm experiencing a glee overload.

AHAHAHA! I e-mailed her.

Did I tell you about our interoffice mail adventure? The one where Jilli sent me some pics of FOB from a KERRANG! issue she'd been going through for MCR stuff?

That pretty much sums the both of us up right now.

Oh, Patrick, you are the adorkablist.

I was looking at Ron Paul's voting record and hating the fact that someone who voted the way I believe has such scuzzy associates. He actually changed his mind on the death penalty because of the way it's managed (though I wonder if he hates the long appeals or if he can see the racial/economic injustice).

Dangerous, dangerous man.

I'm still nurturing "Gore/Obama" fantasies. But soon I'll have to let them go.

t pause to consider Clinton/Clinton. sigh. Goes to lunch

Foreign affairs wise, at least Hilary is known to the international community and probably doesn't trigger gaffaws of disbelief.

AHAHAHA! I e-mailed her.

Bless you. I didn't know if she was around, and I was just about to do that.

Did I tell you about our interoffice mail adventure? The one where Jilli sent me some pics of FOB from a KERRANG! issue she'd been going through for MCR stuff?

That is adorable. That is adorable like when my mother came to visit and brought me magazines with articles about Hugh Laurie and Greg Grunberg because she knows I like them adorable.

Oh, Patrick, you are the adorkablist.

I think the only reason he doesn't constantly have someone hugging his dorky little face is because he punches.

"Gore/Obama" fantasies.

And only in this forum could this be read ambiguously.

Regarding Ron Paul and capital punishment, he's come to oppose the federal death penalty, but thinks it's just ducky if the states want to do it. (Note that there have been 3 federal executions in the modern era, compared to 1099 executed by the states, per deathpenaltyinfo.org).

Foreign affairs wise, at least Hilary is known to the international community and probably doesn't trigger guffaws of disbelief.

Don't think Edwards or Obama would trigger guffaws of disbelief either. I think there is too much focus on "what kind of person is this?". Are they honest. Are the phony? Are the authentic? And you know all the evidence is that this is really hard to judge. People who claim they can judge this, when given the opportunity in controlled studies mostly show that they can't. They best predictors are: what have people actually done? What do they say they will do? What are the positions of their main advisers?

I understand the impulse to support Hillary Clinton. She is smart, charismatic, and has some really hateful people as enemies. She probably is highly respected abroad. But the U.S. image abroad won't be changed by what kind of person the next President is. Given that we are guilty of aggressive war, mass detention of innocent civilians, along with "disappearing" and torture, the U.S. will only recover its reputation with words, rather than deeds. We really can't afford a hawk as the President following Bush.