Anybody up for the Presidential Debates Drinking Game? I know I could use a drink.

[grammargirl]

I am so pissed off by this article that I don't even know where to begin.

Remember the part at the beginning of Fahrenheit 9/11 where Moore talks about the thousands and thousands of black voters scrubbed from the Florida rolls in 2000?

Well, that's not the half of it.

All the news that's fit to print? Not hardly.

Jesus. If Bush steals another election this year, I may just have to put my NY plans on hold and flee to Canada. I honestly don't know if this country can stand up under another four years of Bush "leadership."

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[discountsatori.livejournal.com]

Ah! I remember reading that article when it was first published last year. I attempted to tell everyone I knew in Atlanta that Cynthia McKinney wasn't the nutty woman that the press was making her out to be. The Atlanta paper had printed all the McKinney escapades on the front page, and, you know, for most people, that's all they read ... so they got this one little bite of news -- "McKinney says Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 attacks" -- and all the Bush lovers just freaked out calling her a traitor and trying to get her out of office.

Have you read Greg Palast's book? It's fantastic. He and Molly Ivins are my favorite journalists out there right now. Palast's book is called The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

I have not read that, but I'm thinking it may be time to emerge from my comfortable little hole of escapist erudite fiction and take a good hard look at the world around me.

Heh... I was just about to ask if you've got your absentee ballot yet, and then I realized you'll be back in the states just in time for the election. How's that feel?

[discountsatori.livejournal.com]

You should! I read ONLY fiction for a while, rather indignantly, and then, somehow, I got turned on to books of (usually) intelligent political discourse and have been hooked ever since.

Ah! I can't believe I'll be back home before I have to turn over a month in my calendar again! Super weird. I'm glad I'll be home for the election, though I'm stewing in my living room in Japan right now, knowing that everyone in America is watching the debates while I'm finding nothing on TV but cooking shows.

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

Hey, I guess this is a little after the fact, but I wanted to let you know that on your recommendation I went out and bought Greg Palast's book and I'm loving it-- well, loving it in that weird way where you want to throw the thing out the window every other paragraph out of sheer disgust and frustration. But that's our current administration for you. :P Anyway, I think I've decided that I'm going to spend the time left between now and the election taking a break from fiction and concentrating on educating myself politically, which I've really never bothered to do before. But I feel like I kind of owe it to myself this year, you know?

[redgreenblue.livejournal.com]

If Bush steals another election this year, I may just have to put my NY plans on hold and flee to Canada.

Right there with you. Meet you in Toronto?

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

I'm debating between Toronto and Vancouver at the moment. Toronot's closer and more city-like, Vancouver's prettier but colder... eh, we'll see what happens. Hopefully it's a decision that will never have to be made.

:)

[redgreenblue.livejournal.com]

I picked Toronto for proximity to extended family, but Vancouver's actually closer to me.

I have this fantastic mental picture of a great northward liberal migration. The Mexicans have the right idea--they just didn't travel far enough!

But yes, let us hope it never comes to that!

[wurmwyd.livejournal.com]

Hi There!

I just bought Greg Palast's book last night. I'm working my way through the first chapter, but it quickly becomes one of those books that make you want to throw something against the wall in frustration every other paragraph. It's just very disheartening.

[mathforlovers.livejournal.com]

i'm up for a drinking game. i can't hook up tonight at the elk anyway, since i've got a gyno apt. tomorrow.

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

Sweet-- I think a handful of people are gathering at Brooks's around 8, if you're still interested. You, me, a bunch of physics geeks and a healthy dose of alcohol... doesn't get any better than that. :)