Funyuns and Mountain Dew

I'm writing this post on my brand new Blackberry 1310 Curve. Mind you, that fact would be much more impressive if I wasn't sitting 8 feet from a computer, but you gotta start somewhere. Hopefully this will be the kick start I need to get back to blogging. Handheld access to both blogger and news will get the juices flowing. Expect this blog to go to a short comment/moblog type of area.

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Germany: new Chancellor, same rhetoric:

But Bush rejected a suggestion by Merkel that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be shut down.

The camp on the U.S. Navy base there is "a necessary part of protecting the American people," Bush said. Merkel said she raised the issue with Bush, and she described it as one of the differences between the United States and Germany.

"There sometimes have been differences of opinion, I mentioned Guantanamo in this respect," Merkel said.

Merkel has expressed criticism of the facility. Germany rebuffed an appeal by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales not to release a terrorist accused of killing a Navy diver in an airplane hijacking in 1985.

And after Bush went the diplomatic route and said nothing of that whole David Hasselhoff thing. Seriously, what the fuck is that about?

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There were many things I could have blogged about during my hiatus. In fact, I started pounding away on the keyboard a number of times, before having one of those "what the fuck am I doing" moments, and backing away. Only one of those posts got far enough along to wind-up in my "drafts" folder - this quick response to All Things Beautiful's blogosphere-wide challenge:

Am I the only one who thinks any list of "the ten worst Americans" has to include Thomas Jefferson?

He did everything within his power (from slander to blatant treason) to destroy any national unity George Washington had built in those early years of the American experiment. And unlike his Republican partner-in-crime during that time, James Madison, Jefferson contributed precious little to the future of his nation other than whatever simple coincidence would deliver to him. Not to mention that his vision of America as a Virginiaesqe plantation society included the kind of institutionalized racism history and many of his contemporaries are known to have abhorred, and his own words ("all men are created equal") rendered hypocritical. We can only be thankful that Jefferson proved as improvident as any politician in American history.

I'm a Hamilton man, myself... in case you couldn't tell.

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That's how much failed columnist Margo Kingston spent on her failed blog, Webdiary, in four months.

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Congrats to the newest member of the US House of Representatives. In a way, Campbell limped across the finish line (which isn't too surprising, considering his candidacy didn't get anybody hot-and-bothered with the exception of Hugh Hewitt), but he did fight off some reasonable competition in the process. I'm sure his handlers are shaking their heads over the percentage point he lost between the primary and general (and of course his showing in the primary was - at least for some - disappointing to begin with). But in the end, it doen't matter one bit - their man now sits in one of the most powerful seats in congress.

Two things that jump out at me: the embarrassing defeat for Gilchrist, finishing well behind an amnesty advocating Democrat, and the extraordinarily poor showing of the Libertarian Party in both the primary and general (Cohen couldn't even pull %1 of the vote in either). You'd think the LP would have a decent following in OC, especially in a race featuring an unimpressive "bona-fide" conservative and a venom-spewing, anti-immigration freakshow.

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Just knocked-out the last of three term papers that were due within a week of each other. Also, I recently started a new job and the holidays happen to be the busy season, so I'm picking up a ton of extra hours. I'd say that over the past two weeks, I've spent 95% of my time either at school, work, the library, or bed.

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Six days until Thanksgiving, and this morning I stepped out of the house wearing blue board shorts, a short-sleeved white tee shirt, and sandals. God, I love Southern California.

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