Yeah, yeah, I'm still on hiatus. But I've got a few moments as I've reached a temporary stopping point. Via Kev I ran across this article and I thought this quote was on the money:

Self-described moderate or independent voters also indicate they shifted for reasons other than a lock-step move to the middle of the ideological spectrum. In fact, it's not even clear "centrists" are a unified group. Research suggests these voters are among the most ill-informed, volatile, and unpredictable groups. They are also not ideologically homogeneous, but in many ways what University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, speaking at a recent Pew Forum, called a "statistical phenomenon."

What ever would we do without these voters? They're not so much admirable pragmatists as avoidant, fickle-minded people most afraid of actual ideas, liberal or conservative. Sometimes, and this may be one of those times, they are the true saviors of democracy.

One of my contrarian joys is puncturing holes in the fallacy of a united, socially liberal and economically conservative moderate consensus.

Posts will resume December 1. I may or may not respond to comments before then.

How does every racist comment and/or diatribe begin?

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"They truly hate Bush, and, for the most part, few can draw a distinction between that which they politically hate about him and the policies that enamored them with Clinton. It is a very emotional situation from a very emotional group of people. These are not the type of people you would want next to you in a bunker during war. That said: These are the people more than some of us don't mind watching partially nude on pay cable. So we must somehow learn to live with one another again." -Andrew Breitbart

"Then again, it is always useful to be able to claim Episcopalianism. If your conversation partner is liberal, they feel comforted. If they're conservative, you only have to add an affiliation with the Network or AMiA or otherwise a traditionalist stance, and you're fine there too." -Adrianne Truett

Mom has a little calendar where you tear the days off as they pass. This one is full of inspirational slogans for "women who work too much."

Mom apparently works so much that there's a calendar on the table for women that work too much... and the most recent date is June 27, 2001.

The inspirational/thoughtful saying for the day is:

When Wonder Woman asked "Can I help?" was that codependence?

Well. Was it?

Today's question of the day is whether or not, if they really tried, the people replacing the rafters across the way could be just a little more loud?

I don't think they could...

Am I the only one who finds those little Orbitz pop-up ad games to be really cool and play them over and over again whenever they pop up?

Okay, so maybe I'm weird...

What is your favorite TV show of all time and what do you believe, if anything, it says about you?

Why is it that knowledge with cars and whatnot is considered masculine and therefore attractive to the opposite sex and knowledge of computers is a neutral quality, at best, and usually considered nerdy?

Why do makers of mechanical pencils seem to go so far out of their way (a) to make worthless erasers and (b) design their butts to make it impossible to put a cap eraser on them?