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I rarely say something is a "must-read". But this article on TNR summarizing this piece from a GOP supporter is a must-read:
The poll asked 800 likely voters their opinions on various issues, first giving the positions in a vacuum, then attaching them to their respective parties. The results are pretty surprising: The Democratic position, even when not attached to any party, consistently beat the GOP position by 11 to 25 points. In other words, it's not the Republican "brand" that's the problem--it's their policies.
You have to read the original post to fully appreciate what's going on here. Even with a brand advantage, the public hates the GOP ideas. Go see it yourself. The Democrats could easily successfully build the best brand for the next 10 years, by combining great ideas with good policy execution. That last part is key, because the GOP used to have ideas people liked, but couldn't implement them. Now they have neither.
I especially enjoyed how the GOP author couldn't spell "lose" properly. That might be a bad sign of why they're "loosing"! Ha!
I'd been thinking about obtaining a Scooba but now I've finally found the robot I want:
No need for Johnny 5, right?
i may or may not have a set of friends who are demanding that i go see the sex & the city movie next weekend. most girls i know like the show, so i think i might have to do it or the horror is going to cause some kind of tear in the fabric of the universe.
honestly, though, i find almost nothing more depressing or less interesting than sex & the city, since its sole purpose seems to be to celebrate all the worst stereotypes of women.
if you know me at all, it will come as no surprise when i say that exaggeration is one of my favorite modes of communication. along those lines, there are a lot of directions i could go, but yeah ... i'm going to stick with "rip my own eyeballs out".
I built some links at the bottom for people having trouble going back/forward in time. They're not perfect, but I don't have time to debug them further. Caveat emptor.
unfortunately, today is also for working on a project that i should have done last friday and decided not to start, because in my mind, i had FOUR WHOLE DAYS to do it.
my tendency to procrastinate is epic. i even had a dream about procrastinating last night. i think it involved me not going to class or doing any of my homework in a math class and then attempting to learn everything the day of the test.
please note: my dream is remarkably similar to my behavior freshman year in college. i once stayed up late, not studying and watching the miniseries "jfk: reckless youth" the night before a calc midterm. the error of my ways only hit home when i was staring at the test the next day, with no idea how to even begin solving the problems. so, naturally, i decided the best thing to do was to shut my eyes for a second and just ... think hard. unfortunately, when i looked back up at the clock after that "second", i realized that 45 minutes had ticked by while i slept.
of course, through the magic of partial credit and grade inflation, i passed the class! ah, the rewards for bad behavior ...
is for recovering from
playing tennis quite badly, if i may say so myself - although it was my first game EVER, so understanding where i was supposed to be hitting the ball was a challenge
attempting to swim in a frigid pool, which still was nowhere near the temperature of lake superior, where i used to swim regularly in may because i am pure bad*ss
drinking a bottle of champagne in and near said pool