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Debate commission demands answers - Student Life - News

I want my debate, damn it.

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

if you ain't reading this, you ain't doing your homework

ESPN.com: Page 2 - The Colts can't close the deal

New Hunter S. Thompson. note the hint at the end that he's gonna be on the Ali G show at some point.

Actually, I hope they aren't just doing a TV segment. I dream of a half hour HBO Special, Borat's guide to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '04:

open on a bush rally in Chesterfield, MO. Ground staff run around nervously, as a large white caddilac pulls into the parking lot. Borat, in suit, and HST, in visor, exit, and approach staffer.

GWB staffer: Can I help you?

Borat: Djekui! I am here to meet president.

Staffer: Who are you, (mumbles into walkie)gurraharragu, hold on a sec, I'mm ge-

HST: No time for that now, honey, we're late, where's the advance staff? I'll call mellman and put you through to him. We set this up a month ago. This guys big shit. Top guy in Kazahkstan. Broadcasts to 10,000 GIs daily over there. They won't go out to patrol for gooks till his shows over. big shit. dont's fuck this up, llll ... linda?

Borat: You are very nice. can I touch your shrum? you are his daughter, no?
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a man can dream, right?

Unreleased document shows Bush failed to fulfil his commitments

This is a brand new one. the plot th-th-thickenses.

this will only be useful to the Kerry people if they can tie supposed lying about vietnam to supposed lying about Iraq, etc....

either way, joe gibbs is a winner.

i can't wait for the debates, if only because there's no substance in anything either campaign is talking about....it's all so f'n boring.

how bout we talk about substantive differences on policy???

anybody seen my lockbox?

USA PATRIOT Act Enhanced Due Diligence Guide

ever want to masquerade as someone on a federal watchlist? i didn't think so. but if you click on the link above, then hit namecheck (on the right-hand saide of the page) you can search what I can only assume is a list of suspected money launderers. search for arab names, and you'll get a lot of info on some of these guys (and gals). a few entries include a whole lot of information, like DOB, SSN, address, etc. not that you'd want to steal the identity of someone on a federal watchlist. i can't think of many worse life decisions. but, you know, maybe they should put a password on this?

USA Freedom Corps

Are the 'freedom corps' mocking the president? check the W quote underneath the logo in the upper left.

blaow! how you like me now
was clinton's an 'honorable' discharge?

ABCNEWS.com : ABC News' The Note: First Source for Political News

a few things:
1) the note, linked above, is certainly, at least for my tastes, the most valuable daily political jump-off out there. my gut tells me that the majority of the poltical reporters out there read it every day, and it's a great way to get the backstory to the headlines. if you care, and you should, you should read it. especially those of you in journalism school, but I know that I don't have to tell you that.

2) it's a bit phony for republicans to answer all investigations of bush's guard service with a reference to his honorable discharge after the 'purple heart' band-aids floating around their convention.

3) that's twice that debates here at Wash U have been cancelled the year I show up (clinton pulled out of the '96 debate). sorry if i jinxed it.

4) i'd like to welcome the counter-trey back to the NFL. thank you, joe gibbs. now will the new cornerback rules make the eagles lack of a secondary devastating or meaningless to their defense? answer that question for me, and I'll be able to handicap the NFC east with awesome and terrifying precision.

holy calamity
scream insanity

Cheney Says 'Wrong Choice' Risks Terrorist Attack (washingtonpost.com)

and that's some more arrogant shit right there.

Mirror.co.uk - BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID'

That's some arrogant shit right there.

The traditional start of the fall season
work dat twerk dat

Clinton calls Kerry from his deathbed.

The fall has officially begun. Now, if you haven't been paying attention, there's an election on. Now, traditionally, people start paying attention and the race begins in earnest.

(Oh, were it that the race began for Earnest, now that he's back from camp, but no, a man can only dream, and this whole country isn't California)

Anyway, word on the street, and the street being the NYT article above, is that Clinton's bridge-builders are driving through the country in an old cop car, talking about getting the band back together. I'm especially excited about getting Carville back in the game. He's got my favorite kind of crazy in him, crazy like a fox, which I guarantee will contrast well with Zell Miller's batshit rabid feral-dog crazy.

Things to remember for fall:

Joe Gibbs is Back
You will be listening to my radio show over the internet, so block out some time accordingly.
Kerry is historically a good closer, and one of the reasons August was so bad for him that no one is mentioning is that he didb't spend any money.
If you're using a sharp knife to get the pit out of an avocado, use the face of the blade, not the tip of the blade, to cut into the pit. Sure, the tip will work, but what if you miss? What then? If you can't figure it out I'll send you pictures of my left hand. That'll wake you up, Bubba.
Be glad you're not in my fantasy football league.

Cheers. And remember, from here on out, it's a sprint, not a marathon.

CBS 2 Chicago: Dave Matthews Band Blamed For Human Waste

This is news? I've been blaming Dave Mathews for his fans for a long time.....

arrived in st louis.

am once again a st loser.
please stay tuned.

email if you need legal advice. I'm going to do a weekly advice column here.

ex-methhead shoeless w/ remote-controlled harley-riding parakeet in central california motel parking lot, morning. 

a brief program note
then back to your regularly scheduled nothing

so, yeah. I've been laying low for a while. I've been (more or less) unemployed in LA packing and planning for my move across the country, beginning about June 12th. I'll be back in Washington, DC, until about the end of July, at which point I'll be moving to St. Louis, MO, to start law school at Washington University. I did my undergrad studies there as well. I've been back in DC for the last week and a half for a friend's wedding.

It's become clear to me that one of the factors driving me to write here was a desire to avoid doing actual work at my day job. Without a day job, this incentive has disappeared. Thus, radio silence.

I asume that once I start studying in the fall, this motivation will return. I assume I'll start using this space as a stress ball again.

Over the summer I'll be helping my mother clean out my grandmother's house. My grandmother is at an assisted living center in Rockville, MD, and will never return to the house, so we're selling it to help pay for her care. While this work this summer will be stressfull and intense in its own way, I don't know if it will drive me to write here. It may. We'll see.

I'm planning to move to St. Louis a few weeks before school starts in part to register young voters or volunteer for John Kerry. Missouri is a swing state, and I'd love to help it swing the right way.

In the fall, though, I should be back, and hope to make the title of this site somewhat appropriate. I'll try to offer hasty, half-baked legal advice, perhaps in a weekly feature column. Other than that, the subtitle may change to: "Selling Out: A punk rocker goes to Law School."

For now, waste your time on the internet somewhere else. I may blog my cross-country trip, but it's far more likely that I'll just enjoy it and force you to buy me a beer if you want to hear my stories.

Go wate your time on the internet somewhere else. And if you want me to FedEx you dead cicadas, holler. I'll see what I can do.