Winner of the Most Out-of-Touch Award

Ralph Nader.

I admire the man - hell, I once voted for him as a Georgia contrarian back when a third party seemed like a political possibility. But in 2008, Nader-as-Don-Quixote is an embarassment.

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I'm about to hit the road - in the rain, with questionable windshield wiper blades, no power steering, a weird squeak in fifth gear, and four hundred miles to go. And with a hacking cough I woke up with last night.

Crossing my fingers for good luck as I type this (which is not so easy to d0) -

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard

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Go Obama!

In other news, I finished up my newspaper column this morning and sent it on. This does not get easier after five years - it's more like writing Rocky MCMXV, because all the original ideas were used up years ago. What's worse is that, unlike Stallone, there are no human growth hormones or steroids to help... just a strong cup of coffee or two. It gets difficult to find something I can talk about for 800 words.

But I did it... on to other tasks.

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the naked tapdancer succumbs to a cute Asian

From NBC's Today Show:

CURRY: It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war?

G. BUSH: I don’t think so.

You know, I wake up with ideas to write about - my own little world, the birds singing in the back yard trees, the moonlight shining in my window so brightly at 4:30 this morning that I had to get out of bed just to get a good look at it - but then, I get the notion to check the news before going to my blog. And the willful ignorance of old men who stomp on the hopes and dreams of humanity as if they are six year olds jumping on anthills for sport, their arrogance and foolishness, it all just derails my train of thought.

I sometimes think that my life could be better without this darned internet and its thrust of too much information into my poor brain.

It's a love/hate relationship, I tell you.

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Thanks to feministing.com for this hilarious (but scary) piece about Texas dildo and sodomy laws (in honor of the recent overturning of the state laws regarding sex toys):



God, I miss the late great Molly Ivins.

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