Homecoming

Did anyone make it to homecoming this year? I got the "highlights" email from the alumni association and started wondering if any of you made it back to our soul mother?

Yes We Can

It's a good day. A very good day. We still face lots of enormous challenges as a country (the current recession, the enormous economic divide that preceded the recession, the need for all Americans to have access to health care, the energy crisis and the corresponding ecological crisis) BUT I feel today that the country is ready to face those challenges, to put aside the dog and pony show of the culture wars and work on the needs of the people-- a government FOR THE PEOPLE! What a radical idea.

I'm pretty spent-- physically, emotionally, mentally-- but I wanted to write something today, on this good day, this good day when we, as a country, decided to look towards the future.

peace

Post 401: A Comemoration

Some of you were lucky enough to be in Wheaton this weekend for a 5 year reunion. This got me thinking and I realized that this blog, though now mostly dormant, has been in existence for almost that entire time. So, using the fantastic free ap, Wordle, I created an image of our work together. 4 years, 40,000 words (not including the comments!), 400 posts. There's a certain symmetry to all of this, isn't there? PS- I am definitely doing this with my dissertation when I finish it--no one will ever want to read it, but it can become an art piece for my wall. A fitting end, indeed.

Newbie on the Floor

Since no one's adding any recent posts, I decided to have a major life event so I could report it. Another addition to the T6 family! I hope some of you will be coming to the Wheaton reunion in October so you can meet her. Elena Michelle Morehouse was born on Thursday morning, July 31st, and she was 7lbs 14oz, 19in. Rachel did an incredible job of delivering our baby, and Elena has been a joy. She had some difficulty with fluid in her lungs for the first hour or so, but she coughed all that up and has been doing beautifully ever since. It definitely feels like an alien invader has intruded upon our home, and I sort of wonder who decided that we were responsible enough to take care of her, but we're doing it. As each day goes by, I become a little more familiar with Elena and she starts to seem like a part of the family. More photos at adamrachel.shutterfly.com.

DC people:

Any of you guys in DC, please pull some strings to get me a job there, preferably lucrative but whatever will do. My qualifictions are that I'm a genius.

Thanks.

Nicholas Kristof writing from Hebron

I was going to refrain from posting more NYT links, but I read this immediately after seeing John Hagee on television preaching about how much God loves the state of Israel. I've always found Evangelical Zionism more than a little strange, but I wonder what causes the blind approval of anything the Israeli state does. Is it ignorance of the social and political realities in the Middle East, or does ideological commitment outweigh the facts? And would that ideology be religious ("God's chosen people") cynically political (condemning Israel's imperialism would indict the US) or some mix of the two? Is it a perverted reaction to the terrors of 20th century antisemitism and the Shoah? I ask because the motivation that lies behind this uncritical support of Israel determines how (and even whether) we can profitably engage with Evangelicals about Israel's human rights record (a damning history that we, as Americans, have funded economically and supported politically for decades). Any thoughts?

Kristof's piece:

The Two Israels

A sample:
"It is here in the Palestinian territories that you see the worst side of Israel: Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians (almost one-third of settlement land is actually privately owned by Palestinians); Palestinian women giving birth at checkpoints because Israeli soldiers won’t let them through (four documented cases last year); the diversion of water from Palestinians. (Israelis get almost five times as much water per capita as Palestinians.)

Yet it is also here that you see the very best side of Israel. Israeli human rights groups relentlessly stand up for Palestinians. Israeli women volunteer at checkpoints to help Palestinians through. Israeli courts periodically rule in favor of Palestinians. Israeli scholars have published research that undermines their own nation’s mythologies. Many Israeli journalists have been fair-minded toward Palestinians in a way that Arab journalists have rarely reciprocated.

All told, the most persuasive indictments of Israeli actions come from Israelis themselves. This scrupulous honesty and fairness toward Israel’s historic enemies is a triumph of humanity.

In short, there are many Israels. When American presidential candidates compete this year to be “pro-Israeli,” let’s hope that they clarify that the one they support is not the oppressor that lets settlers steal land and club women but the one that is a paragon of justice, decency, fairness — and peace."

Gitmo

It's strange that such a small place should simultaneously house what is best and what is worst about the US military. It's unfortunate that the "worst" is the side taken by both military and civilian authorities. I'm grateful for individual men and women of integrity that represent the rule of law at the risk of their own careers and even their personal liberty. I anxiously await a time when justice and the rule of law are characteristic of the system and not the exceptions.

From the Times:

"Commander Kuebler (pronounced KEEB-ler) is the latest example of a lawyer in uniform attacking the Pentagon’s legal system.

He is no natural agitator. At 37, he is in some ways deeply conventional. Married to the first girl he ever dated in high school, he is a self-described born-again Christian and conservative who has 'never voted for a Democrat.' Tom Fleener, a former Guantánamo military defense lawyer, described Commander Kuebler, saying, 'Take the average conservative guy in the street and multiply that by a million.'”

NYT interview w/ Obama

From the Times online


I like a lot of the NYT's video features online. Since they don't have commercial breaks, they can do longer interviews (this one is about 17 min.), and they bring some of the detail of print journalism to a video format that often works better than print for interviews (or at least works differently). Actually, it's a lot of the same things I like about the News Hour (and do I ever like the News Hour!).

Maybe this will be the year that evangelical voters take seriously the gospel's injunction to care for the poor and not show favoratism to the rich. Probably not, but I can pretend to hope.

OK. I should get back to working on the syllabus for my summer class. I get a fresh crop of summer freshmen on Monday morning. (Can you imagine your first college instructor being ME?!?)

Peace.

Thanksgiving

Hey T6ers, with it being Memorial Day, I just wanted to give thanks for the fact that Adam, Abe, and Dusty are all back in the US safe and sound after serving time in Iraq. Does anybody know anything about Rudy? Thanks for the service guys.

I'll up YOUR date

Despite the running commentary of my own personal blog, I have no way to know who is reading it, so I thought I'd try to keep the freight train moving through 611 Online Depot here by revealing a personal update™ of my own.

Unfortunately enough, nothing really "happens" to me, as I am still unemployed, virtually friendless, and an eccentric recluse.

I am starting to try to put together some plans to move forward, though, so I thought I'd run them by you, as you're all highly intelligent people with perspective on many things.

As you may know from my blog or other updates here, I've found myself at odds with the general customs of adult life in the western world. The idea of changing myself to fit in to a job is not appealing, so I'm trying to figure out how to design a income-generating lifestyle that suits me the way I am.

I've done some research and one thing that seems to be promising would be to create multiple free-lance sort of income/profit-centers that involve my interests and passions.

So for instance, at any given time I could:

Be selling articles to publications...
Be Licensing my music compositions to companies...
Do consultant work on music projects involving LA groups in the mid-60s, particularly the Beach Boys...
Design clothing...
Be a landlord of some rental property...
Own a restaurant...

Etc.

The idea is, if you have enough little enterprises, money trickling in from the different things, it will add up to be a real income. And then I wouldn't get bored and would be doing things I like that I might not be able to make a career out of by themselves.

Anybody have any thoughts, practical advice, on this?

And of course, I'm constantly looking to get out of Bland Crapids, Pissigan. Yes, people here call it that.

Response to Coye's Appeal for a Personal Update

An announcement this important deserves one of those cool author pastiche things that I sometimes do, but sadly I just don't have the time to do it right. I'll settle for this: on Friday, I was offered my first tenure track job. This morning, I accepted. It's at Gordon College, a school that's like Wheaton in most of the good ways, and unlike Wheaton in many of the bad ways. (As I was talking to the dean about the Gramm situation at Wheaton, her first response was, can we hire him?) Several core faculty are retiring in the next couple of years, so the department is transitioning from older to much younger--there'll be ample opportunity to teach literary theory and other classes of interest. The hardest part will be starting to think of myself as a professor, and not just a graduate student. So that's the short version.

Since I'll be working 5 minutes from Dave's house, chances are good that the T6 ECLAD (hmmm... what did that stand for? Experiment in Communal Living and Discipleship... that sounds like it might be right. At least I hit all the letters.) will be in Boston. Coye can work at Harvard (or Boston College, in a pinch), and the rest of you can find work doing the things that you do. So, that's the new plan. Feel free to join us (it's way better than LA, or so I've been told).

Progeny-less Update (Life in Austin)

It's been awhile since we've had a personal update that didn't involve offspring. Here goes.

I am currently (this week) finishing up my last semester of course work. Beginning this summer, I will be working full-time on developing my prospectus and composing that magical document, the dissertation. I may have more to say about this later, but, for now, in short, I will be writing about the troubled relationships between seemingly mimetic works of art and "unrepresentable" historical violence (World War, Holocaust, the Bomb, the WTC attacks).

I spent the last four days at the 2008 International Narrative Conference. I have been working off and on for about a year as conference staff, and I chaired a couple of panels over the weekend (and attended what seems like hundreds). I heard some great panels, met some academic heros (and got a couple of business cards), but what was most impressive was seeing the "invisible acadamy" made at least temporarily visible. It made the direction of my life seem less obscure and evanescent.

I continue to teach, and am looking forward to teaching a course of my own creation in the fall. It will be, perhaps unsurprisingly, a course on violence.

I've been watching a lot of Top Chef on Bravo (my one televised guilty pleasure) and cooking quasi-elaborate meals whenever time and budget allow (and sometimes when they don't). My exercise regimine has slacked off, but I'm hoping to change that with the return of Friday basketball over the summer. Hopefully I can get back to regular running as well (I can feel my legs crying out for a good run even as I type).

The life-long pursuit of good coffee and good beer continues, as does a very rewarding playing at domestic bliss. The heat and humidity of an Austin summer are beginning to creep into the background of the everyday, and I'm trying (not terribly sucessfully) to ignore the democratic primary. I'm still at the same parish, doing the same sorts of parish-y things.

Alright. Back to writing about Civil War photography. Be well, my friends.

Andrewisms

For your reading pleasure: a few smatterings of Andrew's latest:

"Look! A brush tooth!" (Translation: Look! A toothbrush)
"I am a man with a tree on my head" (Indeed, he had a plastic tree on his head)
"Look! A man!" (A bit awkward, since the person is usually standing within earshot).
"Look! A girdle!" ("Look, a girl")
"I'll have a Little Mac!" (Yelled up toward the front of the car after Dad ordered a Big Mac).
"Three minutes, OK? Say sure!" (His typical stall tactic)

I'm sure these are more funny to me than to you...

Wheaton and Not So Quiet Firings

There's been another one related to the pledge/community covenant.

This time it has nothing to do with Catholicism or evolution. I hate divorce.

Politics and Food?

Beyond the demonization of a good cup of coffee.

What's for Dinner?

Here's a taste: "In last summer’s polling, the latest available, Mrs. Clinton scored high among voters who also had favorable views of McDonalds, Wal-Mart and Starbucks."

And why don't republicans like her...?

The Physics of Half Life

Steve, all I can say is that if you are not reading the blog, I am wasting a lot of my efforts. Some graduate students at McMaster created a half-life mod to study video game physics. You can see their write up here. Knowing you to be an aficionado of video game physics, I felt compelled to post it. Apparently, you can download it and run their experiments in your own version of Half Life. If you want.

Very Strange Moment Right Now

They're singing "Shout to the Lord"--the Worship song, the very definitely explicit Christian worship song--on American Idol right now.

Now it's over, and the Coke/Coke Zero legal shtick commercial is on...and I'm left thinking to myself: did that just happen? That was strange. I don't know what to make of that.

Now you can call 1-877-IDOL-AID.

The Cult of Sincerity

Support the film; Adam Browne is a good friend of mine all the way back from my growing up days in VT.

Poem for the Day

On the Birth of a Son

Families when a child is born
Hope it will turn out intelligent.
I, through intelligence
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope that the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he'll be happy all his days
And grow into a Cabinet Minister.

Su Shih, Eleventh Century

Manga Bible

Steve, I don't know if you're reading our little blog these days, but if you are, this video is for you.

Mythbusting the Moon Landing

It was many years ago now that Aeijtzsche and I sat in Dave the goalie's room on Traber 6 (you know, the guy who mostly watched tv that year) watching a (surprisingly compelling) documentary on how the government faked the moon landings. This hour-long expose walked through the evidence, arguing that we had never been to the moon. You can actually watch the entire show here on Google Video.



Most of the show's claims are explored and debunked here (Wow, the internet is a cool thing!)

Just in case there are questions lingering in our minds about these matters, the good people at Mythbusters have taken on the mystery. The show airs April 25th (and will hopefully show up on YouTube or some other internet venue sometime thereafter). I wonder what their findings will be... Do you think the government has gotten to them, too? No, not the Mythbusters!

FYI

Just so you guys know this is out there:

Options

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do ... Better?

My boys can swim!

conversion

I've become a Mac guy.  Best decision ever.  Period.

The Hunter, part 27

Happy Birthday, Steve.


Drink some sake for me.

A New England Tale

Ten fifty and my neck is tired of holding my heavy head. Ten fifty one and I'm only through my second sentence. If only I could write as fast as you could read, 'twould be better for the both of us. For me, it would mean getting to bed before my wife turns off all the downstairs lights. For you, it would mean I didn't take myself to seriously as a writer. If I were a better writer you would want me to take my time. But as it stands, with my skills painfully out of sorts, any attempt toward aesthetics comes off as dull and vapid and overinflated. Keep hammering at the keys David, keep hammering at the keys.

Yes, you heard me right. I am now living in a place that has a downstairs. How came I to live in a place that has a downstairs (and thus, of course, an upstairs)? Well, sit down a second, let me tell you a story.

Once ago, just a few months back we were. Sarah and I. The boys too. Sarah and I were sitting on the couch in the apartment on the campus of Gordon Conwell Seminary. The boys were sleeping. As it stood, I would plug on ahead and get two masters degrees (Theology and Church History), the second of which I was just beginning. The first was basically through. But here was the thing: as is typical of me, I was just realizing the enormity of the task ahead. Seven classes left with one J-Term and one semester to go. That and part time job and the boys boys boys. Too much, I said. Too much. And for what? And look how much money we're spending. For what? Sarah asked. You can't just turn tail and run with half a semester invested. Good point, yes, I said. But what if I just don't want to. I'm tired of education--at least education in the form it takes here at the Conwell? What then? What then? She asked. What then? Where would we live? We've got just months to go here and what would you propose we do? And, not that this should be a big factor, but how would we explain such a thing to our friends and family. Good point, yes, good questions, I said. I do not know. I do know I am tired of this place and we are spending a lot of money to be here, and that does not make sense. No it does not, she said. Let's pray, I said. I don't know what to do. Indeed, let's pray, she said.

Twice ago now, a week or so later (the lights are going out now, Sarah is turning out the downstairs lights, eleven oh six and she is turning out the lights). Sarah put in a call to the Hamilton housing people to ask about low-income renting options. Is there section eight? She asked. No, but there are some low income renting options. And there is this other thing. There is a lottery being held next month to afford qualified low income families the opportunity to purchase newly built condos at a greatly reduced price. Really? Sarah asked.

And so we applied. The condo development was just down the road, so we went to look at them. Beautiful, they were. They were brand new, three bedroom, two-thousand square foot condos. No way, we said. Could such a thing happen?

Yes, to cut a long two months of waiting down, we did come in high enough in the drawing to make the waiting list such that two months later we received a phone call telling us we had the opportunity to buy. And so we did (ha! if only the process of buying a house was as simple as those four words, but it is not). And so, yes, I am sitting in the downstairs with the lights out.

The boys are sleeping, I am looking toward another day of working from home as a web developer (I go in about once a week)/non-profit director (for the same company)--but more on that later. This was to get the ball rolling. This was to get me typing as fast as you could read until I got so tired I had to call it quits. And this is me calling it quits.

Politics: Too Funny to Resist

By now, most of you have probably seen the Obama YouTube video that was viewed over a million times before Super Tuesday: "Yes We Can."



Now, a new one has surfaced that gives the same sort of treatment to McCain's speeches.



Enjoy.

Religion and Politics: Conservatism

A NYT review of books by Michael Gerson and John Bolton:

Describing the Elephant, Michael Lind

A sampling of the Gerson section:

"Where social issues are concerned, Gerson’s heroic conservatism is actually closer to the Social Gospel Protestant tradition and its equivalents on the Catholic left than to Republican orthodoxies or to the “national greatness” declarations of the neoconservatives....As one might expect, a number of conservative reviewers have been hostile to such a point of view, and with them it is reasonable to ask why Gerson considers himself a conservative at all, inasmuch as his heroes are mostly progressives, liberals and radicals."

Religion and Politics: Progressivism

I thought this was an interesting dual-book review from the Times about religious faith and the Democratic party:

Left Wing and a Prayer, R. Scott Appleby

Here's a sample:
"In short, the Democratic Party’s long string of counterproductive responses to the enduring influence of the religious right has had the cumulative effect of driving away any type of base with the word “faith” attached to it, and opening the door to the Republicans’ shrewd, if cynical, courting of religiously conservative white Christians. It’s been a self-defeating failure, since there are millions of moderate and progressive Christians ready to embrace a reasonable alternative...

"Are Sullivan and Dionne to be believed, or is this the triumph of wishful thinking over political reality?"

Help Me with My Writing Goals and You Could Win a Valuable, Signed First Edition!*

The personal update genre has gotten a fair bit of attention on this blog. We’ve had posts about weddings, children, travel, new houses… even TEFKAMS gets into the act every now and then (though he has been somewhat cagy about the actual details of his own personal life, I’ve noticed. Is there a Mrs. TEFKAMS, for instance? A significant other? Or even, heaven forbid, TEFKAMS progeny?). But, I’ve noticed that we don’t often speak about our professional lives; you know, the things we actually spend most of our waking hours doing. You might consider this post an experiment in this “professional update” genre. If discussion of these things interests you, feel free to contribute accounts of your own professional life, goals, observations, etc. If it doesn’t, I’m sure I can rustle up a YouTube video for your entertainment. Just let me know.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’m not writing today about my career goals, or why I do the things that I do, or any of that meta-theoretical stuff. That’s an interesting discussion for another day. No, today I want to be very practical. As you know, I am currently writing. Quite a lot, actually. Scripts for NPR, a dissertation, papers to present at conferences, articles to publish… It never ends. Some days I can sit down and produce pages of prose, volumes of verbosity, a welter of words, even (these are the sort of lame, alliterative phrases I’d cut out of my “real” writing). Others days, I can’t. It just doesn’t happen.

I’ve been reading recently that the best writers treat their writing as a discipline—something that improves with daily practice (like running, lifting weights, or golf, for instance). Inspired by this, I’ve decided to use the month of February to cultivate this discipline, to find out what would happen if I actually did write every day, instead of just when I have a deadline looming. What will happen? I have no idea. I’ll post regular updates to let you know how this little experiment progresses.

To be specific, here are my writing goals for February (the procedures for the experiment, if you will):

1. Get up at 4:30 every weekday morning.
2. Write 4 pages of academic material every weekday (dissertation, conference paper, abstract, article, etc.).
3. Write 3 NPR scripts every week.

So, what are you going to do today?

*Of my dissertation. It will be signed. But perhaps not that valuable.

Evangelicals in the NYT

I just read an interesting op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in the Times about the changing shape of evangelical politics. I have to say I took some hope from this. Some of it I knew already, but I was surprised to see what topped the list of "issues" in the CBS poll.

Kristof.

The Just, by Jorge Luis Borges

A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished.
He who is grateful for the existence of music.
He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.
Two workmen playing, in a cafe in the South, a silent game of chess.
The potter, contemplating a color and a form.
The typographer who sets this page well, though it may not please him.
A woman and a man, who read the last tercets of a certain canto.
He who strokes a sleeping animal.
He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him.
He who is grateful for the existence of Stevenson.
He who prefers others to be right.
These people, unaware, are saving the world.

Translation: Alastair Reid

Disregard II

I'm having a heck of a time posting the wrong things on the wrong blogs. What a nightmare!

Isn't there some way to just delete an entire post?

Politics and Religion

I know there are two topics that friends are not supposed to discuss if they want to remain friends, but, since we talk religion all the time, I figure it's no big risk to bring politics in behind it. Anyways, here is my plea from a late-primary state to those of you who have super-Tuesday primaries.

This should be no surprise: I want to encourage you to vote in the primary for Barack Obama. There are a number reasons based in foreign and domestic policy that make me support Obama, but here is the main reason-- the core reason-- that I support him (have supported him for about a year now) and think that you should also. This text appears at the top of the screen on Barack Obama's website: "I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about change in Washington... I'm asking you to believe in yours." It is, I know, a little cheesy, but it represents a view of politics and national potential that places the burden of hope-- and thereby earns the right to hope-- on the nation as a whole, on the citizens, on the people, and not on his own shoulders, however capable. He does not claim that he can change the country for us (none of the "stand up for me in the ballot box and I'll stand up for you" tripe); he stands as a voice calling us to live up to our own potential, to listen to our own consciences, to dare to believe in our own ideals. Change in this country, movement towards equality and justice and freedom, will not (cannot) come from the government or the "halls of power"; it must come from the people, our effort, our sacrifices. Barack understands that. He understands the necessity of inspiring the American people to work for justice. He understands that this government of the poeple will only work for the people when it is led by the people.

I know we don't normally talk politics on the blog, but I do feel the urgency of this moment (to paraphrase Dr. King), and for the first time in my life I want to vote for a candidate and not just against their opponent. If you are voting in a Democratic primary, your vote would be well used in support of Barack. I will be voting for him in Texas, but they don't let us vote until mid-March. Even those of you who are Republicans-- I think you should consider crossing over for the primary and voting for a candidate who takes such a sincerely inspiring and sincerely moral position. We all know how rare that is in American politics.

http://www.barackobama.com/

disregard

Zotero

A quick caveat: those of you who do research online may find this as interesting as I do. Those of you who don't will not care (but then again, you're not even reading this anymore, so I guess this disclaimer is unnecessary).

I am auditing a seminar on the digital humanities this semester, and coming into contact with a bunch of tools and other technical wizardry that I never knew existed. Some of them are quite useful. A case in point: Zotero. From their website:

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).

Enjoy.

Dmitri's choice

Here is a link to an article on Slate about Vladimir Nabokov's final manuscript... and whether or not his son will burn it according to his father's final wishes.

Dmitri's Choice

A sample:
"Here is your chance to weigh in on one of the most troubling dilemmas in contemporary literary culture. I know I'm hopelessly conflicted about it. It's the question of whether the last unpublished work of Vladimir Nabokov, which is now reposing unread in a Swiss bank vault, should be destroyed—as Nabokov explicitly requested before he died."

Cosmology and You

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin



Interesting article. Anybody have any thoughts about it?

The reminder

Since we're kind of content-starved here, I thought I'd take this opportunity to self promote again by hyping my spectacular Blog Aeijtzsche pronounced "H"

If you were a fan of, say, Aeijtzsche & H Hitt Facktoreeee, you may be pleased to learn that I've been posting quite a few songs of my own composition on this blog, that are closer in spirit to that than anything I've done for a while.

I'm writing a musical of sorts, so most of the songs are parts of a story. But there are stand alone songs too. Steve Hunter, if you're reading this, I wish you were here to input your 2 cents and provide your patience for the minutia of programming and sequencing and such.

It's also a very confessional blog, so if you like reading about skeletons in people's closets, my blog is for you.

Anyway, I really do desperately want attention, so I feel the need to overpromote my blog. Forgive me. Or better yet, become a regular reader of the blog and comment a lot so I feel important!

Thanks!

The Politics of TEFKAMS

AAAAHHHHH!!!!! I took Andy's advice and answered those questions. What's the deal?? I make Fred Thomson look like a peacenik!!! What's a guy got to do to find a decent candidate? You know, one that shares his values and whatnot?!?!?!? AAAAHHHHH!!!!! I guess I'll have to throw my (quite powerful) support behind old Fred. But I'll only do it if he uses that Law and Order doink doink sound when he debates.

DOINK DOINK

AAAHHHH!!!!!!

WHITE HOUSE, HERE WE COME!!!!

Mapping the Political Landscape

Hey, you there! Remember when we used to post to this blog? Share funny stories, argue with Grady and Coye and Ryan about things important and things not so important? Yeah, I miss that.

Just for fun, I filled out the series of questions on electoralcompass, which then plotted my range of responses on a graph to suggest which political candidate I ought to support. No big surprises here. More moderate than Coye, less than Dusty (yes, you are my political landmarks).

Happy 2008.