A Very Merry Something...

1,000,000 mg of Prozac! Why, you shouldn't have! I've always wanted one!!

Happy Holidays!

Why final exams suck...

After a semester of onerous reading loads, and often pointless class discussions, by the time we write our final papers, our brains are pathetic and withered blobs, hardly capable of demonstrating our knowledge or writing skills. No one should be subjected to weeks of solid academic writing, as it kills the love of learning...I start with a topic I find interesting, but by the time I'm nearing completion, I never want to see another bit of information on the same topic again. This hardly promotes scholarship. It just makes me want to stick my head in the sand. I'm sure I'll disavow this heresy in a week or so when it's all over...okay...back to papers. Blah.

The Creepiest Polling Place Ever

Okay, maybe not THE creepiest, but it's up there. At least the road leading to it has finally been paved, as voting at a white, southern Baptist church deep in the woods at the end of a dirt road was even sketchier.

I don't know what was up with these broken headstones leaning against this tree...there were oddly situated head stones all over the place...Halloween meets Election Day?

We began the day before the sun came up, and did the last shift of the day as well. The fence behind the McCain sign encircles a small, very old graveyard.

The Shrek Donkey was our mascot for the day...it was great watching all the little kids trying to drag their Republican parents over to our table so they could say hi to it.
It probably won't come as a surprise that this particular precinct went for McCain. The people working the McCain table were friendly enough, even if the dippy teenager who staffed the table at the end of the day was wearing a pink "Team Sarah" t-shirt with an anti-abortion bumper sticker plastered across her belly, complete with fetus picture...it looked like she may have been pregnant, but I'm not sure. So glad it's all over...

Kittehs 4 Obama

When I stumbled from the bedroom this morning I discovered that my wife had been busy decorating the cats. Not surprisingly, Orion was the only volunteer for modeling this custom-kitty Obama-wear.

The Perils of Nude Fly Fishing

This was hanging in my mechanics garage. I think it used to be a t-shirt before someone decided to cut it out and tack it up as an admonition to those who would go au natural in their bonding rituals with nature.

Bumper Sticker TMI

The location of this sticker, the hood of the car, is probably intended as a warning for approaching police officers making that walk from their cruiser back to the nervously awaiting driver. This will either make them laugh, putting them in a better mood (always a plus when a ticket is forthcoming), or, if this is a true message, it will tell them that you aren't really up for a road side sobriety test--unless of course you're looking for an indecent exposure charge to accompany that speeding ticket.

Post-Halloween Hangover?

Even Patrón is a lightweight when matched up
with generic blurry head-ache medicine...

...probably not, but it was a nice thought.

Halloween with John, Joe and Barack

It's no surprise that little John McCain and tall, dark and handsome Barack Obama showed up looking for candy last night, but we didn't realize until viewing this picture that Dave appears to resemble Joe the Plumber. The "Make Love, Not War" Shirt adds a little something, I think.

Good-bye, October...

...with your constant reminders of breast cancer awareness,

some of which were BRILLIANT!

Oh, frickin' PLEASE!!!

Is this really a presidential election?
This makes it feel more like a race for class president:

Personally, I'm partial to this one:
(received in an e-mail, don't know who credit belongs to for this one)

Proper Shopping Attire: Satin, Pearls, and Tattoos

I believe even Donna Reed would call this overkill
for a simple stop at the grocery store:

Kitty Cannibalism?

Mmmmmm...delicious crunchy cats:

The Housing Crisis...

...appears to have hit the turtle population:

Local wisdom...

Our post office puts out comments
like this one on a regular basis,
but this was particularly good:

Obama Waffles

This election season has introduced a host of new morons to the public square. The primary example, of course, is this self-described pit bull:

But, the truly asinine dudes behind this product have taken ignorance to a special place:

http://obamawaffles.com/

The brilliant people at ThinkProgress.org put together this interview, which really says it all (Click the 'Full Screen' button, or half of it will be cut off):

Maturity in Higher Education

Graffiti on a wall outside of a university classroom.
Author unknown, but clearly angry:

Now the real question is WHO would steal anything from this person, let alone style? Somebody get this poor person a thesaurus, a spell checker and some impulse control.

Here's another example of maturity in higher education. This is one of those "locked" building directories:

Aren't these display things supposed to be locked? And doesn't anyone check on them...even periodically? I took this picture in late September--Hillary had been out of the race for quite a while, so this message has been greeting visitors to one of the campus' main buildings for a while. Classy.

Election Season

As a bleeding-heart liberal living in a very red-county in a fairly red-state, I find election seasons particularly fascinating. You can learn so much about the people in your neighborhood. In 2004, the Bush supporters at this house got into the "flip-flop" message:

same house, back of the sign:

This is the same house in 2008:

I particularly love the miniature horses grazing in the background: