What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides. A decision that in reality takes one or two days of careful research to make is somehow stretched out into a process that involves two years of relentless, suffocating mind-warfare, an onslaught of toxic media messaging directed at liberals, conservatives and everyone in between that by Election Day makes every dinner conversation dangerous and literally divides families.
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That's exactly the way I feel, le nubian.
Frank, I'm so sorry. Wishing all of you strength and good time together.
Scrappy, that's a great thing to hear. Finding the right doctor is one of the hardest parts.
geez luoise I am getting close to losing it with annoying co-worker today. just gripe gripe gripe complain complain complain - everyone is lazy and bad and no one works as much as she does and it is so hard blah blah blah. STFU!
What are you, some kind of communist?!
Yeah. Yeah. I probably shouldn't have gone quoting from radical documents like that... never mind.
Wow, that workout just totally fried my brain. I couldn't figure out how to open my browser for a moment there. But in good news, I'm now less cranky.
Which is good because I'm about to head into the start of our brass program: all brand new trumpet students. Oy vey.
Oh, just what I needed: sleeping Great Dane puppies.
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I don't know why (or even how) I miss teletext--I have the internet. But I still do.
As a general rule, I don't followmy own country's politics much. America's is much more entertaining, and frankly, probably more relevant to my own life. Plus, I've been pretty disgusted with the quality of the Parliamentary occupants of both sides for some time now.
However, our PM, Julia Gillard, has delivered a thoroughly warranted smackdown to the Leader of the Opposition that I think is worth sharing. A couple of background notes: the PM's father died a few weeks ago. At a Young Liberals dinner, a local radio shock jock claimed that he had died of shame due to his daughter's political conduct. The occasion of the smackdown was a motion from the Opposition to oust the Speaker of the House of Representatives, over some offensively sexist text messages he'd sent. The motion was defeated by one vote, but the Speaker then resigned anyway. Here is the PM opposing the motion: [link]
