From The Morning News - Roundtable: New Fathers, Round II

Even zoo monkeys are smart enough to hurl their fresh feces to the other side of the cage, but somehow new parents think their child's poop will keep just fine until garbage day in a porous bucket next to his crib. Honestly, your college degree is worthless.

A group of fathers discuss their little ones and how their lives are. I'm looking forward to it.

Yahoo! News - CONFESSIONS OF A CULTURAL ELITIST

So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.

And this is why your guy lost. You think you're better and you made it very clear that "your guy" was too good for most of us. You tried to win this election on hate and scorn. There are many of us who are well educated who could not vote for Kerry for fear of putting people like this in power.
Your hatred and bigotry rivals that of the most assinine gay-basher. We don't need or want your respect, because what is the value of the respect of a hypocrite? You lost ours before November 2, and that is why you lost on November 2.

Open Letter To The Democratic Party: How You Could Have Had My Vote

So, if you want my vote next time, and the vote of all my close friends, and the millions more like us that you refuse to believe exists, it's pretty simple: take positions and don't waffle on them. Stand up for America, especially with regard to terrorism. Shut up about what Germany and France think. Stop pretending that the only way to become wealthy in America is to cheat, for the sake of those of us who still want to get there. Treat the President with at least as much civility, if not respect, as you would've wanted right-wingers to give a President Kerry. Most importantly, please, please please, please, please, please stop abusing me. No more verbal and psychological and emotional savagery. Treat me like a voter whose vote you would actually appreciate getting, and you will get it.

So well stated.

George Bush won. It's time to move on from the election. It's time for the weeping and gnashing of teeth to end. The people have spoken. And if you didn't know that "the people" weren't real bright, you clearly haven't been paying attention. But Bush winning can be a good thing. Those who agree with his policies are more likely to relax, let down their guard a little. And those that fear him will watch him like hawks (or doves as the case may be). People will be fighting every step of the way. If you don't like the fact that Bush won, write to your congressional representatives. Write to them every week. Keep track of what they'll be voting for and let them know how you feel. They only get 2 years before they have to be elected again. They also have far fewer people who have the power to decide their fate, so your portion of that power is much greater. Our system is designed to make it impossible for one person to get out of hand. If you don't like the president use your voice in congress. If your voice in congress isn't listening. Make it very clear to them, that they cannot remain your voice. If Kerry had won, I think too many people would have felt "safe" and the system would go back to being it's own entity, free from the encumberances of all the people who interfere with business as usual. Now perhaps we'll see more people paying attention to what this government of theirs is doing and will excersise their power to direct that government the way our founders intended.
They were not saints, they were not mythical heroes. But they knew that. They knew that people with power quickly lose their connection to those without power. Many of them knew it would happen to them. So they set up a structure that on the outside seems overly complex and difficult. But that complexity is what keeps the power moving, so it cannot settle on one person long enough or hard enough to let them take the power away from the rest.
Use your voice, and remember, winners never quit, quitters never win, losers always whine, winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Tomorrow I'll be punching 8, 16, 33, 48, 70, 72, 74, 78, 86, 96, 116, 120, 124, 128, 134, 141, 153, 155, 157, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, 185, 187, 189, 199, 201, 203, 205, 207, 209, 211, 213, 215, 217, 219, 221, 223, 226, 227, 237, 239, 241, 243, 245, 247, 249, 251, 253, 256, 257, 259, 261, 263, 265, 267, 269, 271, 273, 276, 277, 279, 281, 283, 285, 287, 289, 291, 293, 295, 297, 299, 301, 303, 305, 307, 309, 311, 313, 315, 317, 319, and 346
Consider yourself endorsed.