bye!

Check out this great six minute piece by Rachel Maddow on Bush administration members that, in the past 8 years, were the subjects of various scandals requiring their "release" from employment and occasional incarceration:


www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27934583#27934583

The list goes on, and on, and on. Pretty entertaining too, when reminded of the insane shit these people did. And then I have to wonder, for every crime or foul spotted, how many went undetected?

Good morning?

So, this is fucked up... I got up a couple hours ago, shortly after 5 AM, and went to the bathroom, then into the living room, where I was surprised to find my housemate Jason and pseudo-housemate Rebekah watching the Colbert Report at really high volume. WTF, I thought.

It's a couple hours later, and I've realized that that was 5 PM. Now it's past 7:30 (PM) and I'm sitting here wondering WTF just happened. I can't remember the last time I was awake. But when I got up at the ungodly hour of 5:something, I totally felt like I was getting up early in the morning, and even went to the kitchen in my robe to perform the regular ritual of getting some cereal and orange juice.

Now I have to ask Jason is he's seen me up and about earlier today. Or WTF.

Maddow Rising

The new issue of the Advocate has a great little story on my heroine, Rachel Maddow. And if you're not watching or listening to Rachel, you're missing out.

WTF are you people thinking?

Holy fucking shit: convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is winning his race for re-election by a tiny margin. It's still too close to call, as of nearly 6PM EST on the day after, but the current tally is 48-47% w/99% of precints reporting.

Check it. Surreal. Not to leave the saner people in Alaska out in the cold or nothin' (HAW HAW HAW), but I'm really not against this secession idea.

Meanwhile Al Franken seems to have lost by not even 500 votes, which triggers an automatic recount. CNN is listing the Georgia seat as being undecided, although incumbent Saxby Chambliss - besides having the cooler name - seems way too far ahead; not sure why they haven't called it already. The Oregon seat is still up for grabs... the Dem has 2k less in votes, but a quarter of the precints have yet to complete their counts; some lean heavily for the Dem, some for the Rep incumbent.

Dangerous Game.

Massachusetts Budget Game

Question 1 on today's ballot in Massachusetts is asking us to eliminate personal income tax in Massachusetts. Once the police have had their funding slashed to ribbons, I will feel far safer in getting away with smashing in the skulls of those who vote Yes on 1.


... I just finished my budget actually... I won! Did it! I had to cut health care, human services (elderly, disabled, transitional assistance, mental retardation, children/families, etc.), the state police, prosecutors, and prison system, most of the fire and public safety services, and some dubious sounding "additional assistance" being given to various "local areas."

Good thing I'm on SSI/Medicare/etc. now. If I hadn't been on MassHealth back in 2000-1, I'd have died, but, since I don't need it anymore, bye, fuckos!

O-ho.

Inane prattle post:

I've got a real man-crush on Morten Harket. I'm listening to something from his new solo album, but most people would look at him and say "ah, the a-ha guy," which would be correct... he's the lead singer of a-ha. He's the doll on the right on this 1980's album cover:



Thing is, here's a couple shots of him from a live appearance a few weeks ago, too:



The guy is almost fucking 50. I'm jealous of his beauty.

Tangential aside: I just learned from Wikipedia that Harket holds the record for longest note held in a "hit" (I imagine that means "top 40") song... 20.2 seconds in "Summer Moved On" from their album "Minor Earth, Major Sky" (2000). Yay for Wikipedia.

Anyway, the new a-ha album is out early 2009, so, another reason to live another year. Yeah yeah, I know most everyone is thinking "a-ha? srsly? LOL!" Yes, they are still alive. They broke up and regrouped, and have put out an album every 2 or 3 years since 2000. Interestingly they've gone from being on the forefront of technopop in the 80s to increasingly analogue in these past few years (to the point where "Analogue" is even the name of their 2005 album... which rocks).

Worst timing ever.

Man, this is sad... Obama's grandmother just died. One more day and she could have seen him (hopefully) become president. Fuck.