Will that make any goddamned sense?

I'm not sure what the motive is behind the attacks on innocent people in Mumbai, but this entire episode is sickening. I was very disconnected on 9-11 seven years ago because I was in Beijing with my mother and we were mercifully asleep as the tragedy unfolded. However, as I am on vacation at home with the parents for the Thanksgiving holidays, and having at my disposal 24 hour news and the internet, I have been mesmerized like the stupid driver rubbernecking upon seeing an ambulance on the other side of the road. What precipitates this insanity?

I'm compelled to post a link to the David Letterman monologue on his first show after the 9/11 tragedy.

David Letterman's Monologue after 9/11

Superhero

I was talking to my friend A and we were talking about all of our past relationships gone awry, and that opened up a floodgate of memories of girls gone bad that now I can laugh at since I ended up finding my special someone. I don't believe in that "Good things come to those who wait" - I really believe it was my superpower. Superman can fly and has x-ray vision, Wolverine has adamantium claws, and I attract psychotic women. Woohoo!

Here's part of our AIM conversation:

Edited (to change the names only to protect the innocent and the superfluous)

[12:55] w: in fact i seemed to have the uncanny ability of attracting the psychotic women
[12:55] a: it's your super power
[12:55] w: my superpower of attracting psychotic women
[12:56] a: you're supposed to eradicate them after you've attracted them
[12:56] w: ah
[12:56] w: i thought sleeping with them was punishment enough
[12:56] w:
[12:56] a: you're like the reverse black widow
[12:56] w: i attract them into my lair and they kill me!
[12:56] a: yup. use it for the force of good
[12:57] a: you should attract them to your lair and then knock them on the head
[12:58] a: or have a balloon battle royale
[12:58] warrenlee729: my own personal NaNoWriMo
[12:59] roaddogrunning: vanquish them and then dispose accordingly
[13:01] warrenlee729: ay there's the rub

Audacity of Hope

Obama!

24 Hours Until D-Day

So we are now at the cusp of an election that will tell a lot about the future of America.

Normally, I would have my usual blase/laissez faire attitude toward the outcome of an election, with thoughts like "Alright, we elected Bush again? Seems illogical, but I guess we seem to be really picking winners here. Check with me and in 4 years and you can judge the results"

However, this election cycle is like no other. One party in particular has reverted to the basest, lowest common denominator, implying that the other candidate is, among other things, a terrorist, Muslim, un-American, and socialist. I am dismayed by the viciousness and inability for this party and their top two candidates to articulate any coherent economic and foreign policy that would truly have our nation's best interests at heart, all while draping themselves in the American flag, and questioning the patriotism and associations of the other candidate. While McCain / Palin may or may not be at the center of the negative advertising which state the other candidate's middle name or the mass mailings / heavy advertising which talk about supposed connections to Ayers and Wright, by condoning and trying to bring up this instead of articulating ideas (even if they are flawed) on how to go about economic recovery is incomprehensible.

I am very proud to be voting for Barack Obama from whom the jury is still out for me on whether he will be a good President, but he offers optimism and judgement and hope. And we as Americans need a little of all of those.