Big Ol' Smitty

Are you going? Yeah. Field trip!

There were already some protest antics during the torch lighting ceremony the other day. Chinese TV blacked it out. This Olympics will be fun to watch for things like this.

Bill is coming to my town tomorrow.

This is like Butterbean calling Lennox Lewis a shitty boxer.

I kind of view Mike Huckabee the same way I do President Bush. I think they'd both make great little league coaches, but terrible presidents.

He has.

My one is represented. This is from the official Chinese news service RE: the recent rioting in Tibet.

I despise Bush as much as the next liberal, but I'm gonna have to ask you for a source on that one. It's a little hard to swallow. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNew...120080313?sid13

No, it's Hannity & Colmes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama...ch_b_91623.html

Obama's preacher seems like an ass.

I don't think he even knows anymore.

Did you ever run into Gary Gygax? Is his death a big deal there?

hmm

How is a group of people using the pronoun "we" to describe themselves sad?

It's probably something that will just have to be tolerated. The parties, though, being private organizations, have every right to close off their primary contests to nonmembers if they feel like it.

This is why registering as an Independent in a closed primary state is really stupid. One of my best pals is a libertarian, and he registered with the Libertarian Party. Only problem is, Kentucky is a closed primary state. I tried to explain to him that he should register with one of the two major parties since he could at least have a say in choosing the more "libertarian leaning" primary contestant, but he wouldn't listen. It's not like there would be anything stopping him from voting for a Libertarian candidate in a general election. Also, it's not like the Libertarian Party in Kentucky is going to have a hotly contested primary to vote in anytime soon.

I didn't say that. I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter. Republicans in Mississippi have every right to do this--they're not breaking any rules. Is gaming the system like this good for the parties or the country? I can't really see how.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/...gon-report.html

Based on the Mississippi exit polls, Republicans now clearly seem to be trying to throw the Democratic primary to Clinton.

Everyone who's really fucking dumb.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezrakle..._name=what_if_1

You're completely ignoring the fact that Obama is about 10 times the public speaker Edwards is, is more charismatic, less sleazy, not a multimillionaire lawyer, AND wasn't part of the losing ticket in the last presidential election. Add that to the fact that Obama's campaign message was much more compelling than Edwards'.