Election 2004: Brains on display

Honestly, I wasn’t that far off in 2000. I only missed Bush by 10 and Gore by 13. Not my fault it was the closest election in the history of ever. (Is it?) Commander Botox vs. Idiot-in-Chief. I’m already on record as saying that I believe John Kerry will...

Live blogging tomorrow night

Just a quick note and reminder to all concerned, both of you, that I will be blogging all throughout the election returns tomorrow night and updating the results constantly. I’ll be watching coverage starting around 6 PM and blogging like crazy from then on out....

Booyah!

I wish everybody could have as happy a Halloween. After a relatively dismal performance playing indoor soccer up in Portland on Friday night, I was prepared to go down in flames again in today’s outdoor game. Almost unbelievably, I had my best game of the...

Netflix redux

We’ve signed up with Netflix again. Netflix, as many of you know, is the online DVD rental outfit that allows you for $18 to rent unlimited DVDs (3 at a time) with no late fees. They now have a Salem-based distribution warehouse, so I’m hopeful that the...

The price of cuts to education

This evening we ordered some cellular blinds for our bedroom at Home Depot. The woman who helped us through most of the process was nowhere to be found when it came time to actually place the order so we were relegated to a woman who couldn’t do fractions, who...