Can’t the Greens do any better than drag out Ralph Nader from the nursing home every four years? Do Greens still suffer from the delusion that Ralph gives a whit about promoting the party? I said this in 2000 and I’ll say it now: Nader is a self-aggrandizing egomaniac pain in the ass. Personally, I hope he does run so that he can discover just how tired people are of him.
The Guardian has a great article about how nerd culture has conquered mainstream pop culture. Yes, everything is going according to plan, just as we predicted. I’ve already been promised a high-level ministerial position in the North American Sector after the revolution. And then I’ll finally exact my revenge on that bullying cretin who sat next to me in Miss Meverden’s fifth grade class.

Okay, I know I said I’d post some pictures of the snow. Two problems:
1. It gets dark so frickin’ early.
2. I need to figure out a way for my nurse to take a picture outside without my nurse’s finger sticking to the button in these frigid temperatures.

At the risk of being premature, I think it’s safe to say that Dean will be the Democratic nominee in 2004. No, endorsements are not decisive, but Gore remains tremendously popular with the party’s base and it will be difficult for any of the other candidates to recapture the limelight after this. Dean is by no means a perfect candidate but he’s at least as electable as BC. Once the primaries are sealed up, he needs to focus on transforming himself from the Angry Democrat to a candidate with comprehensive policy proposals that clearly set him apart from Bush.
Okay, i’ve had one response to my “Show Me” request. Is everyone shy? C’mon, work with me! Don’t you get tired of my rants? Send me pictures or I start posting my old school photos. And you don’t want that, do you?

Borrowing shamelessly from a stunt Warren Ellis pulled, I’d like those of you with digital cameras/phone cams to take a picture of your surroundings. It can be whatever is out your window or it can be your living room. It can even be a picture of you. Show me something cool. Show me something beautiful. You can e-mail them to me at wintermute2_0@the19thfloor.net. You have until 4:30 CST on Monday, December 8th. All submissions will be posted as I receive them. Come on, don’t be shy. Share your world with me.

I had to get all dressed up for my photo shoot this morning. That’s right, yours truly was striking all kinds of poses and looking very debonair in the process. Why? Ah, but that would ruin the surprise. Perhaps I can say more in a few weeks.
Bush wants to go to the Moon. Now this may be a proposal I can support. NASA has been screwing around in low-Earth orbit for far too long. But it’s too bad it has to be in the context of another space race–this time with the Chinese. I guess the only time we Americans ever get motivated enough to get off our fat asses and accomplish something is when the commies threaten to beat us to the punch.
Sorry about the down time earlier today. My host was moving the servers to a new facility. Everything should be cool now.