First off, I must say "Happy Anniversary" to that Tom guy. One whole year! He's still as cute as ever (and that's not that honeymoon year crap talking since we've been together nearly five).Now on to the newsies...
I'm watching Stephen Colbert on Meet the Press. Absurdist humor from Tim Russert (or is that Russerr?) feels very out of place. Russert is holding up a Bert from Sesame Street doll and asking Colbert, "Why is he Bert and not Berr?" Interesting.
Mike Huckabee is the overwhelming choice of the so-called values voters. MH is a candidate I thought affable even though he raised his hand on the "Who doesn't believe in evolution?" question. However, comparing abortions to the holocaust? A bit much, methinks. Way to pander to the crazies, dude. Oh wait, you're one of them. Sigh.
His quote:
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
Yes, America is so underpopulated.
More from the Value Voters Summit... That genius Rick Santorum had some choice words: "We are Americans who believe that America from its inception was the greatest country in the world - not because of its military or economic power, but because of its ideas and its culture. It is not multicultural." Gee, what a drag that Santorum didn't get re-elected. And why do these people get the Values Voter tag? Since when are racism and homophobia values?
Did anyone see the ruckus on Real Time with Bill Maher? I'm not sure why they were yelling at Chris Matthews but what irritated me about that most was finally he had a panel I wanted to hear more from and it was interrupted by some conspiracy nutjobs. My new older man crush is Garry Kasparov. He was articulate, funny, intelligent and now I want to read his new book. Also, did Joel Stein have some work done or something? He looked... different.
Barack Obama is doing a gospel tour with ex-gay Donnie McClurkin, who thinks homosexuality can and should be cured and has waged a "war on gays". Now I feel really gross that I have a rainbow Obama sticker on my computer that I got at NYC's Gay Pride Parade. I remain bummed that Kucinich doesn't have a chance in hell.
Other bits and pieces: Brownback is out. Thompson is dropping in the polls. And Louisiana elected a 36-year old Indian Republican for Governor. Bobby Jindal is now the nation's youngest governor and the first non-white to hold the state's post since Reconstruction.
In hometown news, props to Chandra Holloway Emerson who teaches at Oldham County Middle School for winning Kentucky Teacher of the Year and Raymond Edward Farrar of South Oldham High for his honor as High School Teacher of the Year. Maybe Tom and I should produce a few puppies so they can take advantage of our fine OC school system.
That's all for now. Off to the yummy Proof in a few hours for a fancy schmancy "looks like we made it" kind of meal.
Ciao bellas,
Ms. P
ps. Merlin posted a new 5ives list just in time for Halloween! I know I'm considering going as a Sexy Prius (which is untrue since what I really plan on doing is hiding in the bedroom and ignoring small children dressed like Transformers and Hermione Granger).
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