Harry Reid is one groovy fellow.
He completely made my day and I am letting him know it...I just sent him a gift basket full of mini-muffins (because nothing says "I love you" like a pile of mini-muffins). If there's anybody here who gets excited at the possibility of having an opposition party in the US again, I strongly encourage you to call, write, or send a gift to Reid's office. With enough mini-muffins, I think we might be able to convince the Democrats to grow back their spines!
Here's Senator Reid's PAC address, for those of you who want to send some muffins of your own:
The Honorable Harry Reid
c/o Friends For Harry Reid
422 C St., NE
Washington, DC 20002
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I prefer to praise him in the form of haiku:
Bill Frist snivveling,
"Daschle was never this mean!"
Reid is the shizzle.
From what I've been hearing, he and Pelosi are in big trouble with the rank and file (remember when Republican leadership used to take hell from the benchers, not the other way around?) for not standing up to Bush/Frist/Delay. So this could be as much about saving his job as anything.
Much more importantly, I am in Chicago with Anne now and she wants to know if you're coming to the reunion on the 25th, the night after Thanksgiving.
And JF, never fall in love with a senator, they always break your heart.
I sent an RSVP about the reunion, Aleks, but I guess it got lost along the way somehow...I can't be in town for Thanksgiving, unfortunately, but I will be in Park for a week in late December and I would love to set up an informal reunion with whoever is in town then.
Anne'll certainly be home around Christmas. I'll be in St Paul except for midweeks when I fly. Hey, you got a couch and a couple days for me in DC sometime before January? I need to have the Democratic Talking Points chip in my head replaced, I came frighteningly close to an independent thought yesterday.
Actually, Aleks, I don't have a couch for you. But don't take it personally...I don't have a couch for me, either.
I'm going to be out of DC for various holidays between now and Jan, but I will be around for much of the time. If you're planning to visit you can drop me a line once you know specific dates, and I'll let you know if I'm going to be in the district.
Actually returning to DC isn't of itself too high on my list of places to hit up before Americorps starts, but it would be cool to see you (and meet the boy if he were in town). But I've got other people to hang out with; Aaron and I are doing a roadtrip to Hibbing, a Dylan pilgrimage, one of these weeks, and this morning I saw Anne walk across what was briefly my room in a towel. So there .
Ah, what Conservatism used to be, before Bush and his handlers and their "sheep" remade the word in their image.
http://www.nationalreview.com/
buckley/buckley200511011324.asp
Author, remember when you said "the only way a 13-year-old girl's opinion can become more trivial is if she sets it to music"? Well this will learn you to believe you've seen the worst:
PITTSBURGH -- About two dozen teenage girls are trying to create a "girlcott" against popular youth retailer Abercrombie & Fitch.
The teens say some of the company's T-shirts -- with sayings such as "Who needs brains when you have these" or "I had a nightmare I was a brunette" -- are degrading to women.
I'm all for people putting the force of their dollars behind their beliefs, so in that respect I can support what those girls are doing. Never too young to learn to play ball, or to learn that Abercrombie is over-priced crap that you shouldn't be wearing anyhow.
On the other hand, sexism is a joke, so why not treat it as such? Maybe it's just my fucked up sense of humor, but I'm the gal who came to work this morning in a t-shirt that features a June Cleaver cartoon with the caption, "I should be in the kitchen."
I meant how a campaign gains instant gravitas (oh what a to do to die today . . .) when you change the first syllable to "girl". Maybe a renaming of the war in Iraq is in order, to add fresh credibility?
Well, in this case the change in name fits. I mean, BOYcott, GIRLcott...sure, it's a lame-ass pun, but at least it is a logical lame-ass pun.
I don't see how you think it gains gravitas by doing that, though. If anything, I think the "girlcott" makes it sound far more trivial. Like it or not, "girl" is a diminutive.
Wow, you must be even more tired than I am (smily face)
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