the house has been shut since we have been away and the furnace wasn't operational for ~2 weeks. But the basement has a door that almost always has been closed the whole time.

Dude, who knew I could like a conservative blogger?

America will survive another Obama term, just as it survived eight years of George W. Bush. Likewise, it could survive four or eight years of Romney if it came to that. This is not because any of these administrations have been or will be right in most of what they’re doing, but because America is not so fragile or pathetic that its survival can be seriously jeopardized by the mismanagement of its political class.

Daniel Larison at The American Conservative.

Ugh, went to this event after work and it was disappointing. Although I did get my mother a Christmas present. But I skipped the second rehersal of my chorus tonight because I had this ticket before I joined the chorus, and now I want to skip next week, too, because my mother will be out of town. I'm afraid they will kick me out!

From Suela's link:

a decline in triumphalist boasting does not mean that patriotism is in decline

It's so sad that I'm shocked at how reasonable this statement is!

Dude, who knew I could like a conservative blogger?

That's because he talks like an old school conservative, not a Neocon.

Being kicked out would suck. Would they do that?

Thunderstorms here today. Always exciting. I just turned the heat on am burning off the dust I hope.

I share a lot of values with old school conservatives even as a crazy liberal. Like I have a general distrust of government institutions. It's is just that my distrust of the market and corporations is greater.

I am voting in tonight. AIFG!

Old School Conservatives can be very reasonable. But think how much more depressing it is for them, being lumped in with lunatics. Though they could do more to snatch the title of conservative away from the loons.

ION, I'm quite enjoying the New Yorker cartoon of the day: a man in a suit is climbing a rope ladder up into a helicopter, shooting back at something as bullets fly past him. Above him, a woman's legs are crawling into the chopper.

Caption: "Well, that's the last time we drop in on *your* parents."

I share a lot of values with old school conservatives even as a crazy liberal. Like I have a general distrust of government institutions. It's is just that my distrust of the market and corporations is greater.

Wrod.

But think how much more depressing it is for them, being lumped in with lunatics.

But that's their choice. They could denounce the behavior of the Republican party as reactionary and radical, not conservative. They could leave the party and loudly proclaim why they are doing so. But instead what's his take home message: eh, doesn't matter who you vote for, which can easily be translated as "I think Mittens will suck as a Pres but what the hell, the country will survive." That kind of bullshit is why they get lumped in with the reactionaries.