Not Broken, Just Bent.

I do not care WHO is standing there in front of you,
Man, Woman
Gay, Straight
Dem or Rep
Striped or Spotted.

That is your PRESIDENT, and the office should command your respect.

I hope you are embarrassed and ashamed, Rep. Wilson. I hope your family is ashamed, and your party. Your much polished "apology" didn't reflect too much genuine remorse to me.

But congratulations. You managed, with your vitriol, to turn the conversation from the true point of the matter we should be paying attention, (health care and insurance reform,) to your elementary outburst. Nice piece of media manipulation.
Was that the point all along, Rep. Wilson? Were you just waiting for something to shout about, so as to redirect the spotlight?




I wish I could be done with it, stick my head in the sand and wait for this to blow over. But with a family member with a traumatic brain injury, who lives far below the poverty line, I can't afford not to know where this is going.

If you elected to save the child, you might want to think long and hard before ticking off yes on Question #3 tomorrow.

Does the industry need more regulation? Yes. Should there be stricter rules and painfully high penalties for breaking them?
"You betcha!"

But to dissolve jobs, in this economy, on people for whom this is their lifestyle? Who generally have very few skills to begin with? Irresponsible.


And it won't stop with dogs. This passes and in 5 years you can kiss the remaining horse tracks goodbye too. And you might be able to imagine that this will directly affect me through my sister.

- K.

Disclaimer - Yes. I wear a pendant of a greyhound around my neck daily. Yes, I desire to eventually own a greyhound. Yes, I love my dog (who is not a greyhound.) But that doesn't negate the fact that he is a dog, not a human being. And those crying yes to Q3 blur the "human in a fur suit/animal" line pretty badly in my opinion.

http://somehedgehog.livejournal.com/245807.html

Really, someone should create an animation of this...
- K.

1) Quality of life - how do you measure it? Honestly? Is it having enough cake to buy that Flat-Screen-Uber-TV-Monitor-Microwave Combo, or is it something different, something more?

2) Do you want your drinking buddy to run the country, or someone who's more intelligent, more educated, more experianced than you? (ie, better than you?)
When did we devolve into a society that panders, even in it's politics, to the lowest common denominator?

(These questions brought to you by the letter L, cranky clients, and the number 23.)

- k.

Every morning, I gradually wake up to NPR. (Gradually because of the various slaps to the snooze button.)

This morning, there was a person, in my bedroom, talking about typography. And politics. And what the typography of the campaigns said about the campaigns.
I found myself agreeing in my sleep - Optima is sooooo 80's. Johnny Mac (their nickname, not mine,) is soooo 80's. Dated font. Dated man. Personally like the font, but - It says weddings and funerals to me. Personally like the man, but don't want him or his running mate "I' can be a big boy too!" running the country.

Gotham - clean, American. Beautiful font. Strong, simple. Love Gotham. Birthed by draftsmen, refined by typographers. Solid font - solid president? What does it say? what does it meeeeean?


It was at this point that I realized I wasn't sleeping, they this was an actual discussion. This rattled me enough that I only had two snoozes this morning.

Mr Dog didn't seem to mind.

Watching the rerun of the Shrub's address to the Republican's convention...
Usually the man looks strangely built to me, but in this address, he looks like he's about to burst into tears.

The nonsensical crap that's spewing from his mouth is making my ears buzz, but I am amused that the Leader of the Known World looks like he's about to weep on national television...

Oh, oh... now I get to listen to an actor schpeal forth his opinion. I liked you more on Law and Order, Fred -You had better writers.


It's interesting to watch the Palin fiasco unfold... I wonder how long before the backlash. Right now I hear a lot of "Fat lot of good her abstinence program did," and "if she can't lead her own family, how's she supposed to lead a country" but I wonder...

Crazy things loose afoot in our country these days.
I smell frightening times ahead, no matter which ways the cards fall.

- K.


EDIT - And I find this even more Interesting... from a friend of a friend:
http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html

Listening to a coworker rattle on about how likable Huckabee is...

I don't care about how freaking likable he is!
( Let's take a look at his positions: )

(inspired by a recent post of Illustrator's)


I grew up in a news based household - we got the daily paper, we always watched the 6 pm local news and the 7 pm national news with Peter Jennings.
I gre up listening to Mr. Jennings, and I was much saddened when he passed away. A voice from my childhood had been extinguished, and with it, a voice that I felt I could trust.

When I moved out, and to college, I lost that news schedule - the world became too complicated, I had too many choices for where to get my news. Everyone seemed to contradict each other, so eventually I threw up my hands in apathy and ignored the news. I walked away, and hoped the world wouldn't follow me. I spent a great deal of time ignoring the news. If I didn't know about it, It didn't affect me.


Then I met this man named Spider. And desire for news started to tickle the back of my head.

Then I met a man named Hunter. Crazy as a fruit bat, and you had to take his writing with a grain of salt, (or a grain of "insert choice of illegal substance here.") But in reading his accounts of old news, it gave strength to the desire to know what was going on.

After that I was introduced to a man named John, and his good friend Steve. They give me news of the day, but they make it stand on it's head - they say what we're all thinking, and spin it in a way that we can laugh through the tears of frustration that today's news often gives us.


Just recently, I met a man named Keith. (This is ironic in my world.) This man has given me back the news, and given it a dept of passion that hadn't existed in my news, no, in my politics, to date. His commentaries are thoughtful, well spoken, and direct. I urge anyone looking to find someone who seems to speak honestly, to watch this guy, listen, and maybe remember waht he has to say later.
For more, please see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

The times, they sure are interesting, if nothing else.

- k.

But I think in this case, they deserve a piece of my pie.

If you're pissed about S. Dakota, please see:

http://kathrynt.livejournal.com/366823.html

- K.