...but Joshua Tree really is an excellent album.
I am spending my Saturday night reading Sherlock Holmes, listening to old albums, and drinking a bottle of wine. It is the best Saturday night ever. Being a hermit is awesome.
Gotta go- need more wine.
Election talk here: you may wish to avert your eyes.
To be honest, I'm sick of them all. I'm sick of McCain being a crazy old man with terrifying foreign policy theories and Romney being a crazy old mormon with values he's happy to change for enough power and money. I'm sick of Huckabee and I hope Iowa is heartily ashamed. I'm even sick of Ron Paul, who has been the highlight of the Republican debates. But I am even more sick of the Democratic race, which is starting to make me want to punch someone in the face.
Why I'm sick of Clinton: stop it with the odd pseudo-emotion and the disturbing Hillary-and-Bill bullshit. It's creeping me out. Look: I like you when you're your usual nasty, power-hungry, brilliant self. Tell your advisors to fuck off and just be you for a while. And leave Bill tethered at home or something.
Why I'm sick of Obama: shut up shut up shut up. Your lack of substance is becoming really embarrassing and while you could probably coast into the White House on good looks and charm alone, that would be REALLY ANNOYING. My palm itches to slap you when you start the "Yes we can!" chant. You are reminding me why I hate my generation.
And while I'm at it...why I'm sick of JFK: Oh my god, what a lucky dog that he got assassinated. He wasn't a very good president, he was addicted to painkillers, and he very nearly got us involved in a nuclear war. Had he not been young and pretty and promptly assassinated we'd all hate him by now. I hate Americans sometimes.
That said, today will be very interesting. I'm sure I will have an opinion later this week: stand by.
Here, have a funny cat video:
So sad...and yet I can't stop snickering. Life is so hard.
“Unlike other candidates, I have been saying since 2002 that we were headed down a disastrous road with our sushi policy,” Senator Barack Obama said. “But what we need now is a president who will not use this crisis just to scare up votes.”
“We need a president who can get past the tired, old partisan divisions that pit one kind of fish against another,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s fine to get the mercury out of tuna. But all fish are in this together. We can’t rest until we have safe sushi of all types, all across this great land. To those who say we aim too high, we say, ‘Yes, we can.’ ”
Former Senator John Edwards said that the sushi menace underlined the widening gulf between rich and poor. “We have to stand up for the millions of impoverished Americans who go to bed every night unable even to dream about tuna sushi,” he said. “This is the other America, not the fat cats plunking down $400 at places like Masa in New York.”
“We need to speak up for the little guy,” Mr. Edwards said, “the guy who gets mercury poisoning and then sits for hours in a hospital emergency room because he can’t afford health insurance.”
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton warned against “false hopes” that the sushi menace would soon be over. She declined to pledge that, if elected, she would have all mercury out of tuna within four years. “But I can promise,” Mrs. Clinton said, “that on Day One, I will be ready for action.
“Experience counts, and I’ve been eating sushi almost since that transforming day when I heard Martin Luther King speak in person.”
"New York Times to endorse Hillary Clinton for president."
It's a good thing I agree or I'd have to break up the the NYT. The last time I broke up with the NYT was my senior year of college, roughly four years ago. I don't remember why we broke up (maybe it was Times Select?) but I do remember inflicting my misery on my friends for a whole week and half before allowing the paper to grovel its way back into my heart.
If Times Select (or whatever) was the equivalent of a minor indiscretion, this endorsement is a really kick ass Valentine's Day gift: dinner, champagne, and maybe a tasteful piece of jewelry. Someone's getting lucky this weekend, let me tell you.
