TOG -> still in the W-town, doing the home thing. Ready to get my mad eye-doctor on tomorrow before returning to Larryville and the blogosphere shortly. Until then I shall tickle your synapses with some random crap:

Got the ol' absentee ballot filled out, and I'm dropping it off tomorrow. All in all, there were 43 men and women for whom I could elect to various positions of power ranging from the de Facto Leader of the Free World to Pottawatomie County Register of Deeds (yes, that is actually an elected position, and yes they do exactly what it sounds like, and yes I too believe that to be absurd)

On the aforementioned ballot, after carefully researching every single candidate for every single office, I still could, in good conscious, feel comfortable voting for anyone for any position. There is something wrong with the political culture when I feel I'm choosing the lesser of two evils for County Treasurer.

Democracy Blows.

My mother, a registered dental hygienist, fully comprehends the fact that Wisdom teeth are frequently removed today because the human jaw has become smaller than it was a few hundred years ago, and there just isn't room for those last set of molars. However, she gets visibly upset when she hears about anyone suggest the theory of evolution has some semblance of merit.

Things you will never ever ever hear from Hollywood celebrities: "While I hope to see him re-elected, it's not my place, nor the time, for me to offer up my political opinions unsolicited" -Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling, after saying he supported President Bush's re-election during an interview Thursday morning. I don't give a crap if you act well or you're the Greatest Playoff Pitcher in the History of Baseball. I don't care what you're political views are. Say what you will about the frivolity of sports, but Curt Schilling understands that, and Sean Penn is a twit

The greatest thing about getting 2/3 of your hair lopped off is the first shower after your haircut, when you realize you don't need nearly as much Shampoo as you did the day before. God, I love that feeling.

By the way, I got 2/3 of my hair cut off this weekend.

TOG's little bro got 21st place at the state cross country meet on Saturday, 1 spot away from medaling and earning all state honors for the second consecutive year.

I ran into Brandon at the aforementioned meet. If you know where we both live, and where the meet was, you'd think this was funny.

My junior year made me fat; my pants from last winter don't fit very well anymore.

Just for the heck of it: Mahnahmahna!

TOG's Official Presidential Election Prediction: John F'n Kerry (If only because he is taller than Dubya, and the Washington Redskins lost today)

I'm surprised somebody hasn't blamed the latest Osama tape on Karl Rove as a tactic to re-elect the president. Though somebody at the democratic underground probably has, I just don't know it yet.

No, seriously...Democracy Blows.

Please, wake me up when it's all over. I'm tired of this political hackery. Somebody come and knock on my door Wednesday morning and tell me how it all turned out.

Andrew Sullivan once posted something about neither party being able to afford to win. The logic being that no matter who's in office, Iraq will still be hard, Oil will be expensive, everyone will hate us, and the president will get blamed for it. Much the way Dubya got blamed for all the economic woes circa 2002 when nothing he had done could have changed the business cycle one iota. If John F'n Kerry wins, everybody hates him in 2008 and he gets destroyed by a 'Publican outsider. If Dubya wins everybody hates him and there is no heir-apparent come '08 because nobody can justify supporting such a fundamentalist bastard as his record becomes indefensible. The more I sit and think about it, the more I convince myself this is true.

Quickly now, my problems with the presidential candidates in three words.

Kerry=Waffly Career Politician
Bush= Arogant Religious Bastard
Nader=Tree Hugging Bitch
Badnarik=Ignorant Isolationist Ostridge
Peroutka=Rev. Jerry Falwell

Is this the best and the brightest we could find? I don't want these fellas leading a PTA meeting, and they want power over the big red button? I hate our government.

I wonder how long it will take until somebody in the NSA investigates my threat level to national security for writing that last sentence.

I'm upset with myself for not recording my apprehension about Iraq before official supporting the war. I actually had tons of reservations about it, but was convinced by Collin Powell's presentation at the UN insecurity council. Everybody was hating everybody else by that time, so I actually was more patient and thoughtful than most, but I still fear that because I didn't write these things down at the time, any criticism I give will be viewed as being a fair weather fan of war and lacking resolve. I fully expect that to happen now anyway, I just think it’s important I get this out there in the open.

I still hate people...in case you were wondering