Swylc sceolde secg wesan, þegn æt ðearfe!
This is my last post on this blog. It's just not for me I guess. Last night was the worst moment in modern american history.
the best quote from the election comes from Sean Gorman:
"I believe I'll devote all the time I previously spent obsessing about the election to burning American flags."
Fuck Christianity.
Fuck the south.
Fuck America.
To the Gay community....my heart is with you. Good luck.
Christ, are we really headed for another Yankees/Red Sox ALCS? I don't think I'll survive this one. It's almost enough to make me want to root for the Twins.
Nah.
But, I've mentally prepared myself for the Yankees losing this time. The Red Sox are just better: there's not much doubt about it. More runs scored, fewer allowed, better starting pitching...I just don't see the Yankees taking it, barring a collapse of some sort by Schilling. It's just unavoidable--this is the Red Sox year.
Anyway, we all know the Yankees won the REAL championship--the Division title!
Playoff baseball and Vice Presidential hijinx prevented me from finishing my grading last night. I tried to grade a couple papers infront of the TV, but you just can't concentrate on some 19 year old girls pitiful yammering about female exploitation in the Reeve's tale when you're watching Johann Santana embarrass the Yankees, or screaming at Dick Cheney as he lies out of his asshole.
Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler has come up with the perfect response for John Kerry to use against the $87 billion attack. I know we all know the facts already, but never have I seen it laid out so crisply and in such graspable terms (even for the Rubes). Bob Somerby should be Kerry's chief adviser, or at least made Press Secretary under the new administration.
"Diane, as a senator, I get paid to vote “yes” on good bills and “no” on bad ones. And that bill to provide the $87 billion—that was a bad bill, in my opinion. I wanted to see a better bill providing that money to our troops. I wanted to see that funding paid for by us, not by our grandchildren, and I wanted to see an actual plan for how that money was going to be spent. Diane, do you know that $20 billion of that money was designated for reconstruction projects, and that now, a whole year later, only five percent of that money has been spent? That’s just incredibly bad planning! Those of us who said we wanted to see a plan before we authorized that money turned out to be right. This was just another case in which the Bush Administration had no real plan for their actions—none at all! They insisted that we hurry up and approve that money—and they had no idea how to spend it!
Diane, those troops were always going to be funded. That was never at issue—not at all. Everyone knows that, including the president, who talks about every day this as just another silly diversion."
Have you ever tried to go to a blogspot page and been redirected to Aaron's Bible page? This religious psychopath has registered every domain name containing the common typographical errors blogpsot and blogpot. Thousands of bloggers across the blogosphere have thought themselves hijacked by this Buchanan brigader--and I wonder how many souls have been saved in the process.
A quick check of the guest book on this Evangelical oasis reveals some startling testimonials: "I was never very religious, but I found this page completely by accident while looking for something else. I know it was the hand of God that guided me here." No, fucktard, just your easily predictable typos.
My god, these Chaucer papers are really bad. Didn't these kids take expos or its equivalent?
Giuliani is such a fucking whore.
And Jon Stewart rules:
RUDY: Three times he said the war was a mistake, and in the end, he said it wasn't a mistake. I think the level of contradiction is pretty frightening when you're running for President of the United States.
JON: Now, when he said when he may have made a mistake in terms of talking about the war, but that the President made a mistake in prosecuting the war, and he felt that was more egregious, that didn't resonate with you at all?
RUDY: No it didn't, because I don't know how you tell those young men and women to continue this war to carry on if it is a mistake, and I don't know how you bring extra allies or more allies into a war that you are pronouncing almost in very very dramatic language as a terrible mistake. The whole core of John Kerry's idea, his whole "plan" his so-called plan is he can bring in more allies. More allies to continue a war that he believes is a horrible mistake. It doesn't make any sense to me, I don't think it will make any sense to the American people.
JON: Right, and again, boy, I hate to harp on it, but don't you think that what he believes is the mistake is how we went about the war, not the actually idea of disarming Saddam? I think what he was saying was, he felt Saddam could have been disarmed without us invading.
RUDY: Well
JON: And actually, I guess what I would suggest is he was actually disarmed, because there weren't really the weapons we thought were there. [Girl in the audience screams in delight, and audience starts to cheer.]
JON: Or, or, you know, I don't know...
RUDY: Yeah, but Jon, he himself was a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
JON: Senator Kerry?
RUDY: He himself was a supporter of terrorism. No, Saddam Hussein was a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
The Yankees win the division, and then Kerry BITCHSLAPS Chimpy in the debate. What a disgrace our president is...a stammering, hem-hawing semi-retarded monkey. Oh, and he's also a mass murderer responsible for tens of thousands of needless deaths.
Watching the GOP spin machine try to salvage this is hysterical. Bush wasn't irritated, says Karl Rove, he was just "pensive" and "focused." BWAHAHAHAH, focused on saying the same goddamn retarded things over and over again?
Bring on Edwards/Cheney.
I have to grade 26 papers by college sophomores on one piece of Medieval Literature from the Norton Anthology. hahaha. This should be fun.
Am I the only one that is still nervous about the AL East? I have a feeling the Red Sox will finish their season with one of those 7-0 runs. The Yankees still have to face Johan Santana and Brad Radke.
I may have lost my wallet. I really hope not...it had over a hundred dollars in it, not to mention credit cards, drivers license, social security card...the whole magillah.
I will be up until 3 a.m. at least tonight grading papers. 5 a.m. if I take time out to watch the Red Sox/Devil Rays game.
School is a real bummer. People with jobs and money know where the fuck it's at.
Go Scott Kazmir!
My first lecture ever to an undergraduate class will be on The Tempest.
It's not my favorite--I'd rather be teaching Lear or Coriolanus. Thankfully, I brought with me to graduate school all the copious notes I took during this guy's lectures, so with my theater experience I should be able to do some skillfull parroting, as long as I remember to leave out references to the grease trucks.
Hopefully, I'll be able to continue faking my way through graduate school in this fashion until I trick them into giving me a PhD.
The real frightening part is that I have to ask and field questions. And these kids are bold, 300 level types. It's not one of those En151 courses full of engineers fulfilling their humanities requirements. These kids actually think they're smart (and one or two of them actually are).
Since kids today love interiority, I might give some time to the 19th century biographical reading of this play--Shakespeare reflecting on his entire artistic life, etc. I plan to fill up a lot of time, though, reading several passages aloud with the forceful gravitas for which I was known in college.
I have a feeling this could be a disaster.
Ph.D. Student at Boston University
