Posted on April 28th, 2009 @ 23:48 in
randomness I have a feeling I can’t write anything nice before midnight so I, um, won’t even try. Got a few blog entry drafts tho so maybe one of them will make it tomorrow; and if not, well, whatever, they’re still here somewhere, in the myowndamn.biz Wordpress or Hostgator MySQL archives. Until the end of time! Or sth. Like, depending on what dies first. Puny humans or some US webhosting servers. Yes. (if this made no sense to you: I am meant to be updating once a day)
Posted on April 18th, 2009 @ 00:58 in
life & me,
randomness I very much feel like not updating, but since I got told off twice previously I thought I’d try to get to 200 words at least or something. More »
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 @ 21:37 in
randomness by stuff like the current media reports of the first encounter between Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Michelle Obama. Like here (this is the most respected news magazine in Germany!): “Which one is the prettiest? Michelle Obama was wearing yada yada yada while Carla blablabla.”
Seriously!? So we’ve got a former model slash singer (slash trophy wife), and a Harvard Law School graduate with an unprecedented fundraising track record, among other things. And we’re comparing them on the basis of what they were wearing!? GRAH!!!!!! [I have nothing more to say]
Posted on March 8th, 2009 @ 22:51 in
life & me,
randomness So apparently I’m back in MJ-land. It’s an odd place to be after a pretty long exile. It’s particularly weird to go back along with all these other people who’d gradually lost interest over the years (some more, some less so than me), and who all now seem to sort of re-awaken to that particular state of mind, the MJ-obsession. More »
Posted on February 17th, 2009 @ 23:58 in
randomness Aw man, I was all hyped up for a full 3hr CSI marathon, but turns out the final (NY) one is one I’ve seen just recently. Oh well, I still got to waste 2hrs of my time on US crime drama. More »
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 @ 21:51 in
randomness Oh oh oh please may I gush??? More »
Posted on December 4th, 2008 @ 23:40 in
randomness Alabama voters on Tuesday [NB: Nov 2000!] repealed the state’s century-old ban against interracial marriage, an unenforceable but embarrassing throwback to the state’s segregationist past.
The vote was running 59 percent to 41 percent, with 58 percent of the voted counted. [source]
This means that 41% of voters in Alabama eight years ago voted against interracial marriage (even if the law by that time was ineffectual). While this is “the minority” (less than 50%), and the law was thrown out, it’s not really “a minority” - it is more than 2 in 5 people. It’s really not that far from half of them.
Of course with only 58% of the votes counted this may not have been entirely representative, esp. with urban precincts likely reporting later. I couldn’t find any final results during my quick googling. Still it’s probably not that far off and… well yeah. Kinda sad. Despite Obama.