Any other politics geeks out there?

In order to help me keep my electoral math straight, I created a spreadsheet to track the likely winner of the Presidency next Tuesday, entering my own projections plus data for about a dozen relatively realistic alternate scenarios.
I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I also added in worksheets to track the House, Senate and gubernatorial [...]

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My soul must be in dire need of saving.

This has showed up on a few of my friends’ LiveJournals this morning, and I found I had something to say about it.
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
I have a fairly sizable [...]

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

… it’s probably just another part of the giant government conspiracy.
I was reminded this morning of the theory that the Apollo moon landings were faked. My inner conspiracy theorist loves this one, because there’s so much you can do with it.
See, in the early 1960s, the Western World was stunned when Yuri Gagarin successfully went [...]

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Everybody wants prosthetic foreskins on their…

Some of the products out there just baffle me.
It seems that one can now buy reusable latex foreskins for a different experience. (Thanks to Andrew over on Facebook for the link.)
All together now: “please be gentile with me”…

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Sea Kittens are the Yummiest Kittens

So it seems that PETA, in their infinite yet questionable wisdom, have another addition to their greatest hits. Above and beyond their suggestion of using human milk rather than cow’s milk for dairy products, and well ahead of most of their ’shock-value’ advertising, comes this little gem:

Fish, due to previous bad PR, are now to [...]

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I am so coveting this T-shirt.

Sometimes, there are T-shirts one absolutely must have.
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So much for soccer.

It seems I am destined for another season of soccer-related disillusionment.
My beloved Spurs, for all that the squad looks good on paper, do not play on paper, and are thus languishing at the bottom of the league with zero wins and two ties after eight games.
My predictions for the Premiership this season have already gone [...]

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My taste in music is so two years ago.

Back in 2006 I reviewed the Decemberists’ album The Crane Wife. Then and now, a bloody amazing album, but the vocal riff from “Yankee Bayonet” has been firmly embedded in my head for about two weeks now.
Before this, my default “earworm” was the Hush Sound’s “We Intertwined”, before that was Catchpenny’s “All These Questions”, and [...]

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Damn, I’m social.

It has come to my attention that I have accounts on WAY too many social networks. In quite a few cases (e.g. Orkut, Bebo), I’ve set up accounts but never actually used them. Others, like MySpace, I pretty much stopped using as it became more and more unwieldy.
In any case, the ones I use most [...]

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So who is it, really?

Oh, America. Scarred and wounded so many times, you bravely struggle forward. Through the slings and arrows of wars and revolutions, through the inept ministrations of your own sons and daughters, you hold your head high and look for a greater tomorrow and a brighter future.
I am a relatively-recently-minted permanent resident of the [...]

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