I think purges of voter rolls will be a key factor in this election, there are so many close swing states.

Yeah, that's what this country needs - a bitterly contested election.

Actual quote from one high school classmate to another, "You live in a Turkey?"

I was completely disgusted when I heard that my step-grandmother was going to be in grease for two weeks. But then, I was six at the time.

Yeah, that's what this country needs - a bitterly contested election.

Too late -- things are already bitter.

Too late -- things are already bitter.

Yeah, but not bitterly contested. That'll probably wait until after the voting....

Considering I've run into people in this country who fail to grasp that I am a citizen as I came from New Mexico, I'm a little easier on those who might miss the factuality of Bohemia. Raises an eyebrow, but just warrants a gentle correction.

Hell, with the -stans, half the time my brain goes wait,wait! Now is that a real one or fictional?! And I studied the frmr USSR and was totally obsessed with its splintering. And I used to have them memorized. My brain is holey cheese.

To be fair, authors like Agatha Christie kept making up small Eastern European countries. I think.

My cat is yowling! I thought it was because I forgot to feed her this am (I found the food in the microwave), but she is still yowling. Also, I am so absentminded lately. Yesterday I fed her, but put Saran Warp on the dish, instead of the can in the fridge. And last week I (TMI alert,more appropriate in Bitches) although funny)

accidently inserted 2 tampons because

I forgot about the first one!

I was completely disgusted when I heard that my step-grandmother was going to be in grease for two weeks. But then, I was six at the time.

Hahahaha!!!

It's hard to keep track of all the bullshit happening right now. Did ya hear that Fox has hired Judy Miller?

Fox Glibly Excuses Judy Miller's Past Indiscretions

In today's Howard Kurtz column, which teases Fox News' acquisition of Miss Run Amok (aka Judith Miller), Fox's Senior VP John Moody explains away all of that...stuff...from the past. My favorite part is this little bit of gloss on the ol' cost of doin' business:

"She has a very impressive resume...We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped."

Yyyyeah. In other words, no one at Fox can claim that their furtive manipulations of the medium have always generated the partisan outcomes they'd hope to engineer. In this one case, however, Judy Miller did succeed. And Fox is big enough not to blame her for the thousands of potential viewers who are dead because of it.

Yeah, but not bitterly contested. That'll probably wait until after the voting....

I'm still aghast at the Missouri 2004 election, the Secretary of State was running for Governor and continued in his capacity of running the election. That's right, he was in charge of his own election and he made clearly partisan choices in administrating the election.

I remember listening to an international election observer on NPR talking about elections in general (I believe the context was the Ukranian election at the time, I don't remember for sure) and he pointed out Missouri governors race as an example of an election that would not pass muster from observers.

Considering I've run into people in this country who fail to grasp that I am a citizen as I came from New Mexico, I'm a little easier on those who might miss the factuality of Bohemia. Raises an eyebrow, but just warrants a gentle correction.

My parents lived in Farmington for a year, shortly after they moved to the States. My mother, as a result, subscribed to New Mexico magazine. I was always both baffled and amused by the One of our Fifty is Missing column.