18 November 2003 - 5:17 p.m. There are no less than three bottles of carpenter's glue in this house. I only need one. I will eventually have to buy a new bottle after searching for about three hours. (1) Comments?

18 November 2003 - 2:04 p.m. Is there anyone around today who'd be able to give me a ride from my house to downtown Providence and back sometime today? We're down to one car, and I don't have it, and the key to get to my bike is on the ring with the keys for my car, which I also don't have. Yargh. (0) Comments?

18 November 2003 - 1:16 p.m. There is an unpopular war in Iraq, the longest recession in 65 years, a president who was elected by the slimmest margin possible, and the Worldcom people haven't even been charged yet, but next year's election is going to be won or lost based on partial-birth-abortion and gay-marriage. Why are we so obsessed with 10% issues? That is, why are we so obsessed with issues that only affect ten-percent of the population, while huge issues which affect nearly all of us are completely ignored. There will be thousands and thousands and thousands of laid-off people who vote for Bush because they are against gay-marriage, ignoring the fact that Bush is anti-union and pro-big-business. They will remain unemployed or underemployed, but at least the institution of marriage will be protected--protected from what, I'm not sure, but protected in their minds. And, at least people will stop having partial-birth-abortions, except that, very few people had partial-birth abortions, and most doctors didn't perform them anyway. And, what were we arguing about anyway? Oh yeah, ten-percent issues. You know, to distract us from the war and the economy. I bet you didn't know that 3,000 civilians (that is, people sitting in their homes watching TV or having dinner) were killed during the new war in Iraq. I bet you didn't know that Dick Cheney's company, Haliburton, got billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Iraq (you know, cause we bombed it). I bet you didn't know that the reason that unemployment figures have gone down recently is mostly because people have given up finding a job. I bet you didn't know that President Bush cut veterans' benefits right after the war in Iraq started. But, I bet you know that the Massachusetts supreme court struck down the ban on gay-marriage today. (0) Comments?

16 November 2003 - 9:45 a.m. Well, Louisiana just elected a Democrat woman for Governor. I would call this encouraging, but the only reason she won was because the Republican candidate was not white. And we all know that a deep-south state is not going to elect a non-white governor. How did this country become so conservative? I mean, big-business destroyed the most robust economy that this country has ever had. Sure, 9-11 caused a dip in the stock-market, but it was nowhere as deep or long-lasting as the Worldcom scandal and the other accounting-fraud scandals. If the boards of big-business were honest, the stock-market would be at like 18,000 by now. So what do we do? We elect pro-big-business conservative politicians who make money during recessions, and say, "please, sir may I have a tax-cut?" So, how much did your $300 tax-rebate change your life? That is, before you got laid-off, so the CEO of your company wouldn't have to give up part of his $65,000,000 bonus this year. We have really developed a peasant-mentality in this country. And we seem to be saying, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. (2) Comments?