i still exist...

...barely

the best thing about president obama's speech tonight...

...was that it occasioned the following image:

apropos of nothing

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slums r us

Shorter Michael M. Bates:

The Obamas will bring rats with them from the slums of Chicago that will overrun our precious White House.

what i did this weekend

See the tiny shirtless man more or less in the middle of the shot waving a mic around? That's Girl Talk. Now picture us three or four people deep from the center of the stage, with around one million bodies behind and beside us pressing in closer. Heavy.

By the way, for Christmas? I would like a hydraulic toilet paper launcher.

Hitler=Kennedy=Obama?

Ask not what your country can do for you, but if a black man suggests how you can do something for your country, go ahead and call him a Nazi.

note to gay bloggers who want to blame "excess" black turnout in CA for prop 8 passing

If you were passionately against Proposition 8 and for Barack Obama, and had donated money to both, and if Proposition 8 had been defeated, and John McCain had been elected president, and if the exit polls showed that if gay Republicans had only turned out in their regular anemic numbers instead of en masse, or that if their presidential votes were the same as gay Democrats, Barack Obama would have won, and the next morning a lot of prominent black bloggers started lamenting how "the gay vote" had cost them their best chance to see a black man in office, wouldn't you be kind of pissed off?

And if they wanted to do better in the next election, don't you think those black bloggers would be better off trying to educate the gay Republican community about why they actually shared a common cause than pissing you off by setting their cause against yours, and ignoring the fact that you and many others had fought valiantly in support of both?

Just askin'.