Trust me to think for myself

A former co-worker forwarded me an email today, criticizing the proposed health care plan. I  exchange Christmas cards with this woman but I haven’ t talked to her in a few years so I was kind of surprised that she didn’t even bother to ask about me or my family. Or my cats.
I believe her [...]

How green is my valley

Tom Friedman,  the Pulitzer prize winning New York Times columnist, spoke at a charitable foundation luncheon I attended this week.
I like nonprofit events involving valet parking,  nicely dressed people, fancy carpeting, a  chandelier bedecked banquet room and colorful food. It’s incongruous, which is a fun word to use and spell.
In a lovely display of synchronicity the lights went out for [...]

Either the emergency broadcast system isn’t working or my reception stinks

Because:
I missed the bulletin that every dipshit was going to call today with questions that have nothing to do with my job, like why the post office hasn’t forwarded mail and where they can pay their taxes.
I missed the bulletin that every visitor from NewYorkMichiganIowaIllinoisNewJerseyWisconsinPennsylvaniaandOntario was going to be out and about learning how to turn into a [...]

In my dreams I watched from the comfort of home but in reality I was at work and unable to watch at all

Before the internets broke, I watched the people arriving at the inauguration. Cheney, in a wheelchair. Moving boxes my ass. He’s just too lazy to walk.  When I saw Bush I said “bye now,” and at that moment he raised his hand and waved, like he’d heard me. If  I’d known it was that easy I would have [...]

Rejoicing

Yes we can!
Yes we will!
Yes we did!

Dick Meyer says “worship the off button”

I’m afraid to watch the election coverage tonight. Afraid that lying, cheating, fear-mongering Republicans might win again and I will wake up in a dark alley somewhere lying in a pool of my own vomit because my tonic for four more years of Republican Rule would be alcoholism.
And that’s not something I really want to contemplate. I’m [...]

Obama in Sarasota

Barack Obama in Sarasota, Florida, October 30, 2008.

 
I don’t really know how to go about describing what it was like to be there, about 30 feet from the podium. 
Sunshine, joy and happiness?
Hearing your name called at the Oscars?
The test was negative, you’re fine?
An anonymous person has paid off your mortgage?
Order anything you want, it’s on me?

Seriously, I [...]

Potential brush with greatness

I’m giddy. 
I’m hoping for a brush with greatness tomorrow when Obama appears at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota.
I hope we get in. There are no tickets. We’ll camp out in line for a few hours, concert style. No signs or bags allowed. Cheering voices and cameras welcome.

I voted and I got a sticker

I voted yesterday.
Other people were voting too.
We were all voting.
I was careful about filling in the bubbles with the black Sharpie.
When I was done I placed my ballot in the privacy sleeve. It looked a lot like a piece of cardboard.  I fed the top of my ballot into a machine that looked a lot like a big paper shredder.
The poll [...]

Sentence fragments

Like the pink building in Arcadia.
One cool day in the midst of a soul-sucking world.
Apples waiting to be peeled & pied.
Of Montreal who?
Turning off the air.
Dust everywhere.
Using political mail as placemats.
To live a quiet.
Lost causes.
Used to laugh with you.
Skill level.
Annoying batting stance and a lumberjack beard.
To be able to look out the window.
Miles from here in other [...]