Originally posted by The Onion on January 17, 2001:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

Their powers of precognition exceeded even Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce.  It's eerie.  We should pay attention tomorrow to what they say about Obama.

Incidentally, there's some rumors going around that need to be dispelled.  Obama will NOT be doing any of the following tomorrow:

Parting the waters of the Potomac.
Walking across the reflecting pool.
Raising Wall Street from the dead.
Making sandwiches for the crowd using just two loaves of bread and five cans of tuna.

He will be attending at least six official inaugural balls tomorrow evening.  And after all that, I'm sure he'll be up promptly at 6 am on Wednesday, ready to begin his first day of work. :P

Tags: humor, indecision 2008
Current Mood: cynical

Got about 100 hours to spare playing "63 Questions"?  Take the "So you want to work for the President" meme.

63) Please provide any other information, including information about other members of your family, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect.

Well... Obama may be the "Geek President" by virtue of having read all the "Harry Potter" books and reportedly flashing the Vulcan "live long and prosper" gesture to Leonard Nimoy at a campaign event... but it looks like no one who associates with fandom is going to pass the "have you ever done or do you know anyone who ever has done anything potentially weird or embarrassing" test. :P

Article here.

Tags: indecision 2008, news

Someone explain to me the theory of law that allows for civil rights to be put to a simple majority referendum.  I don't see discrimination because of sexual orientation to be any different in practice than discrimination because of gender, race, or skin color.  In this day and age, could a state put a law back on the books banning interracial marriage if 50.1% of the voters wanted it? 

Tags: indecision 2008
Current Mood: grumpy

CNN has been receiving reports of text messages and e-mails being received across the country saying things like "All Obama voters, due to long delays, are asked to wait and vote tomorrow 11/05."

Link to online article.

How freakin' pathetic and lame.

Listen up, people.  TODAY is your day to get out and vote.  Do not be fooled by this stupidity.

Tags: indecision 2008, stupidity
Current Mood: bitchy

Heard on CNBC:  "The election is the key element of this campaign."

Gee, you think?

Aparently, John Madden's style has been adopted for political commentary.  "Now you see, if the quarterback throws the ball and the receiver catches it in the end zone, that's gonna be a touchdown."

:P

Tags: indecision 2008, stupidity

Last reminder from me.  If you do nothing else today, and if you weren't among the people like me who did it in advance by mail...

GO VOTE!

No complaining about the next guy unless you voted.  These are the rules that I just made up.

Tags: indecision 2008
Current Mood: busy

My fellow Americans...

Vote tomorrow and get a free coffee at Starbucks!

Pros: free caffeine!
Cons: it's Starbucks, not Dunkin.

And don't be a lame and say you voted when you didn't... or visit multiple locations throughout the day.  Unless you live in NYC or Chicago, where we understand that's just how things are done on election day. :P

Tags: indecision 2008

Seriously... I can't believe Jon Stewart talked for two minutes about McCain using air quotes and did NOT make this comparisoon...


see famous look-a-like faces

Tags: humor, indecision 2008

My mail-in ballot is filled out and sealed up and will go into the mail tomorrow. 

I shall now spend the next six days not watching television and ignoring all the desperate eleventh-hour campaign attacks.

Tags: indecision 2008
Current Mood: accomplished

Wearing red may boost your sex appeal

Does wearing the color red give you a sexual edge? Maybe, according to a new study, which found that men find women sexier if they're sporting a crimson hue rather than, say, blue or green.

However, red won't make you look smarter or more competent, says study author Andrew Elliot, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester in New York.

"We only found the effect for attraction, so males don't rate females in red as more intelligent, more likable, or as having a better personality; they only rate her as sexier and more attractive," he says.

Hmm... yeah... that explains a lot, actually. 

Link, link, wink. :P

Tags: indecision 2008, news
Current Mood: silly