Halloween Joke
What do you call a ghost with no eyes?
A sheet.
Sorry, fellas. I know. It's a mean trick (I had to get you here somehow!)
So here goes. If you're American, vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday.
He believes in ONE United States - not two sides that are at war with each other.
He is cool headed and has the right temperament for the job.
If he runs the country the way he has run his campaign, we're in for better times.
If elected, the positive effect he has on the brand of America will be dramatic. You can send a thousand armies around the world and not gain that kind of good will.
It makes the Declaration of Independence - our best testament to freedom and equality for all - truer than it already is.
We are a great country. Make history.
(Okay. You can go back to your fantasy football and porn now. But don't forget to vote!)
Sorry, ladies. I know. It's a mean trick (I had to get you here somehow!)
So here goes. If you're American, vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday.
He believes in ONE United States - not two sides that are at war with each other.
He is cool headed and has the right temperament for the job.
If he runs the country the way he has run his campaign, we're in for better times.
If elected, the positive effect he has on the brand of America will be dramatic. You can send a thousand armies around the world and not gain that kind of good will.
It makes the Declaration of Independence - our best testament to freedom and equality for all - truer than it already is.
We are a great country. Make history.
(As you can see from the above, I'm a bit of an idealist. So don't give up searching for those affordable comfortable sexy shoes. Because 'Yes you can!')
He is not an elitist.
He is not a terrorist.
He is not Britney Spears or Paris Hilton.
He is not Marxist, or socialist, or communist.
He is not Muslim.
He is not Islamic.
He is not Arab.
He's a United States senator.
Matt Taibbi wrote a hysterically seething piece for Rolling Stone arguing that the Sarah Palin problem isn't really a problem with Sarah Palin. An excerpt:
"Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you move their jobs to China and Bangalore.
And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning."
The whole shebang here.
Photographer Dave Bullock has a wonderful series of photos taken around Los Angeles' downtown river area. These are not the typical shots of L.A. you see on postcards sold on Hollywood Boulevard, but they reveal one of the city's most visually interesting landscapes.
(The photo above captures three ubiquitous L.A features: concrete waterways, railway tracks, and fire)
This time from the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra performing "Hey Ya" (with a certain HBO notable in there).
These prayers at McCain/Palin rallies are getting a bit whack. I'm a Catholic American, and I'm praying that Obama wins.
Via LiveLeak. A video titled "My Dogs greeting me after returning from 14 months in Iraq"
I find myself praying every day that the Secret Service does their job, and I wonder if John McCain will say anything to reign this stuff in:
People immersed in politics know about this link already, but for any newbies, Pollster averages dozens of polls and gives a great overall view of what's going on.
"When is the Barack Obama show gonna end? It's been on for a hundred years!" - Milo, 5 year old political analyst.
Fox News has lost all sense of reality. This clip is hysterical in how it denies the obvious.
Year 1910. Walter Wellman's hydrogen dirigible America just before being abandoned by its crew near Bermuda, 1,370 miles into an attempt to cross the Atlantic from New Jersey. Its engines having failed, the America drifted out of sight, never to be seen again. Via Shorpy.