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Trailhobbit's Rambling Blog
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Peruving
Mood:
rushed
Hokay, so I'm going to Lima tomorrow night and flying into Cuzco the next day for two weeks of Spanish class. Then I'm going to work on a dig in the mountains near Huaraz for a month. Getting ready for this trip has been an adventure in its own right (mostly 'cuz I suck at life) but I think I'm just about there. Entonces, adios amigos. Hopefully I will find true love and lotsa cool old broken stuff. Well, maybe not so much true love. I'll take llama pictures :)
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 5:25 PM EDT
Monday, June 26, 2006
I OWNED THE GRE.
Mood:
on fire
zomg. *happy dance*
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 7:28 PM EDT
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Wednesday Beatley Goodness!

This picture gives me so much joy.
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 7:46 PM EDT
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Massive Update/Rant Day!
Hokay, so... It's massive update/rant day! Why? Because a lot of things have happened that I haven't bothered to post about and that fill up much neglected blogspace. Because it's Tuesday again and at this rate my blog will consist solely of Wednesday Beatle pictures. And because I'm ANGRY! Karl Rove has escaped indictment in the CIA leak case, inspiring gleeful gloating from the right. Now, this is just disappointment.com. So my life right now for those who don't know...I'm taking the GRE on the 26th, for which I'm not as well prepared as I should be given how much time I've had to work, but oh well. My brother graduates this weekend and this whole week has been a celebration of his existence. He won a ton of awards and received compliments on the beautiful yearbook he put together, and then he and his girlfriend were prom king and queen. So it's all somewhat sickening from an older sister's point of view, but I'm also proud of him. Aw. My grandma got the cutest puppy and is calling my mom on a regular basis to complain about how hard it is to manage when she already has two older dogs. I held out hope for a while that she wouldn't be able to take care of it and we could keep it, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I'm still working out all the Peru logistics and am really looking forward to the trip. Alas, my Yale course catalogue won't come until I've already left the country. GAH! SENIOR YEAR!!!! I can't stand it. This was going to be a much longer entry, but I got sidetracked surfing the net and ran out of steam. I've been spending waaayyyy too much time with my computer of late... >_<
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 1:48 PM EDT
Thursday, June 8, 2006
We get the truth from Comedy Central and comedy from Fox News
I love when Jon Stewart gets semi-serious in an interview. Here he skewers Bill Bennett on the marriage question.
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 12:27 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, June 8, 2006 12:28 PM EDT
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Wednesday Beatle Blogging

Much love for George's outfit! XD
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 11:42 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 12:08 PM EDT
FAFBLOG LIVES!
"The world hasn't ended!" says Giblets eatin our last piece a world. "It just happens to be going through a naturally-recurring cycle of world and not-world!" "I dunno Giblets," says me. "The scientific consensus on the world seems to be that world-endification is caused by human activity like burnin fossil fuels an deforestation an that time we blew up the world."Rejoice here.
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 10:36 AM EDT
This is violently stupid
My dad said today, "I don't think there is any principled argument in favor of the repeal of the estate tax." That's all I need to say about that. Speaking of lack of principled arguements, this marriage amendment business is really, really lame. It's such blatant election-year pandering. It exploits and enforces bigotry. Many of the people promoting it are not in successful heterosexual marriages themselves (*cough*O'Reilly*cough*). It is clearly meant in part to distract us from more immediately relevant problems. Plus, Congress already voted on it and it failed! I love this bit from Garrison Keillor on Salon: Meanwhile, the Current Occupant goes on impersonating a president....and one of the basic assumptions of American culture is falling apart: the competence of Republicans.
You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war and getting nowhere, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid. I love how he calls Bush "the Current Occupant." I think I should compile a list of apt nicknames for him. Just today a comment on Huffington Post referred to him as "Chimpy McFlightsuit", which I think is the best one ever. Then there's his own statement,"I'm The Decider," which Jon Stewart so cleverly spoofed last month. I've also heard him called "Smirking Chimp," "Bubbleboy," "Commander Codpiece," and "The Unelected Fraud."
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 12:15 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 12:23 AM EDT
Monday, June 5, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Mood:
bright
I was very impressed with Al Gore's global warming documentary. It is essential viewing for anyone remotely open to the possibilty (read: truth) that global warming is happening, caused by humans, and a very serious problem indeed. In a sense, I had already seen the bulk of An Inconvenient Truth before, when Gore came to Yale to present the slide show he has been delilvering across the world. This was in 2004, before Hurricane Katrina so devastatingly underscored the dangers of climate change. It struck me then that this new Gore (let's call him activist!Gore) was much more animated than his previous incarnation, candidate!Gore, who met an untimely end in 2000. No doubt about it, Truth is activist!Gore's show. He is in his own element: smart and clear and even witty. He jokes, and not only at his own expense. More than that, he really puts his heart and soul into communicating his message to us. I'm not the only one who has noticed activist!Gore would, unlike candidate!Gore, make a great presidential candidate. It is startling to compare him not only to his 2000 public self, but also to John Kerry, whose blustery Senatespeak made for some great quasi-motivational sound bytes but could probably not carry a documentary like Gore does here. In Truth, Gore's voice pervades every scene, vascillating smoothly between the folksy echoes of the deep south and, when appropriate, Senatorial gravitas. I never got bored of it. However, the inconvenient truth we all have to face is that Gore is not going to run for President. Before I watched the film, I had held out hope that he would change his mind and be the comeback kid who returned from his exile in the wilderness to set things right. But after seeing how deeply devoted he is to his new mission, it is clear that he's not going to put on those shoes again. The fact is that activist!Gore is not candidate!Gore, and that is precisely what makes him so appealing. For this liberated Al Gore to have to squeeze his newfound energy back into the cramped confines of candidacy would be tragic if not impossible. Sorry, America. You had your chance. Go see the movie! Even if you think you know everything there is to know about global warming, you will get inspired by this highly important film.
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 9:46 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 11:28 PM EDT
Friday, June 2, 2006
The biggest story no one wants you to read
Mood:
not sure
Now Playing: "Into the Void," NIN
Rolling Stone has printed RFK Jr.'s assertion that the GOP stole the 2004 election. It's long, comprehensive, and compelling. My impression while reading it, although I had heard many of the facts and arguments in it before, was that the evidence is so abundant and so well documented that it can no longer be labeled a crackpot theory. I believe it. I just hope something comes of this article. One misconception it cleared up for me was the idea that they might have gotten away with throwing the election because it was so close. It wasn't close. It was only close because it was rigged. So many separate groups of would-be voters were disenfranchised by so many different methods, that if all of them had gotten to vote for Kerry it would have been the overwhelming victory the exit polls indicated and then some. This is not water under the bridge. Obviously, Bush is president and there's nothing we can do about that. But if this information is true, then our democracy is nothing but a facade. Who are we to talk about exporting democracy to Iraq when we don't even practice it ourselves? The silver lining is that if that many people were voting for Kerry, then our country isn't as full of morons as I thought.
Posted by Trailhobbit
at 7:55 PM EDT
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