meta-roj

really late to the punch on this one…. but for your [be]musement…

take the journal to your local polling place and be an election judge or just an observer. this election counts, so make sure the votes do.

it’s election season… so why is it that i’m not allowed to kill politicians?

acording to the boston globe, teachers are ditching their red pens for purple.

Purple now ink color of choice for teachers [azcentral.com, august 24, 2004]

“The concept of purple as a replacement for red is a pretty good idea,” said Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute in Carlstadt, N.J., and author of five books on color. “You soften the blow of red. Red is a bit over-the-top in its aggression.”

i’m sticking with red; i’m famous for my “hemorrhaging paper” editing. just ask joi (i actually did a lot of those edits with a red pen…)

i’ve been making fun of kerry’s “three purple hearts, a green clover and a blue moon” collection of “magically delicious” medals since before the swift vets cooked up their scam, but that pales in comparison to george w. bush’s medals.

someone’s ripping my great ideas and i think i like it….

i’m not a particular fan of the comcast, but i do feel compelled to give high marks to the person responsible for casting the used car salesman that appears in the comcast internet commercials. a most excellent choice. and someday, if i feel motivated, i’ll figure out who that actor is…

ok, not mine, exactly, but i felt like pointing.

in a moment of what is, perhaps, freudian clarity, president bush announced to top pentagon officials:

president george w. bush, august 5, 2004

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we

update: the white house press release.

ok, i have to put this together in my head somehow….

on the 29th, we learned that selling sex toys was illegal in alabama

today, the associated press carries this…. dateline decatur, alabama….

Sex Shop Claims Job Applicant Stole Toy [ap, via abc, august 4, 2004]

A sex shop planned to file an arrest warrant for a woman who allegedly left the store without paying for a toy but who left a good lead on how to find her: She had just filled out a job application.

please tell me this isn’t some sort of botched sting operation….

obviously, the alleged shoplifter was just trying to comply with the “no sales” rule in alabama. obviously.