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It was the moon-cub’s job to pick the fist-melons, which were a pale green-yellow. The old man would say ‘Simeon, it is time for you to pick the melons.’ He would say these words through his wooly beard every day—every day that the moon-cub could remember. The moon-cub had lived for many [...]

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Reflections on the Art of Canvassing.

I’ve been thinking about taking a political science class for awhile now, and luckily for me, I finally got around to putting one in my schedule this semester. It’s a nice enough class, and I think I might take an International Relations or Comparative Politics course next semester. Anyway, the big project for my political [...]

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El oh el, John McCain.

Seth and I aren’t very big fans of the lolcat phenomenon, but some of the pictures from the debate are absolutely priceless. And hey, sometimes we need to be lighthearted about these things. Click for the original image from Yahoo (because you know we couldn’t make this up).

QOTW: What the hell is up with John [...]

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I find your lack of issues…disturbing (Part II).

So, coming hot and fresh off the heels of the last debate, I bring you the latter half of a two-part series featuring Leila Vader and her haughty condescension towards the US public! Would that I could give middle America a hard stare while curling my fingers and force it to metaphorically choke on things [...]

I find your lack of issues…disturbing (Part I).

Backstory: In an ill-fated attempt to stay somewhat connected to home life while away at college, I started frequenting my local newspaper’s website to maintain a vague idea of hometown events. One day, there was a small blurb issuing a call to anybody who was interested in giving their two cents on the presidential/veep debates [...]

Effing television

I’ve been watching too much television lately, and I’ve generally been doing too much of nothing. I think Leila was right when she told me not to bring my television along to college. I’m still mildly addicted to Election coverage, and it’s difficult to concentrate once I have some within my grasp. Maybe once the [...]

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Rambled bits.

ETA: Google circa 2001. No Twitter, no Wikipedia. How ephemeral will these cybercultural landmarks turn out to be in the future?
It’s currently 3:30pm and I am sitting in my computer science class feeling rather unengaged while the computer says, “Tick, tock, tick, tock, BOOM” for a demonstration of conditionals in Python. Introduction to Computing is [...]

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