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This post is more political than I meant it to be
Why is it that when you're standing at a bus stop, the smokers are always standing upwind of you?
Bill Maher's show is recorded and posted online as a podcast. I don't agree with everything he says, but his show is still fantastic. ("We can pretend that the biggest threat to our children is some creep on the internet; or we can admit it's us. Because when your son can't find France on a map, or touch his toes with his hands, or understand that the ads on TV are lying... then the person fucking him is YOU.")
And it helps give you new insights. Today I learned that Ben Affleck occasionally has intelligent things to say!
So I'm moving to Boulder. ♥![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
libekory and I are making all these excited plans about how we'll do things that I expect we'll forget the moment we move in together.
Among those, we're trying so hard to be good because our country is terrifying us. We're using Buy Blue to try and give our money to people who give THEIR money to Democrats. Upon researching, however, we discovered easier said than done. For instance, breakfast. Cereal is simply not blue. Kellogg's and Post and General Mills all donate pretty substantially Republican. Li-san even suggested diet shakes for breakfast, like Ensure, but on researching that it TOO belongs to something which donates heavily red.
Well, my conclusion was that we'll make the best of the companies that donate reasonably equally (Kellogg's is 56% GOP/44% Dem in donations) and buy blue where we can (buy Gateway, not Dell!).
It's not possible to live blue when the big corporations all want their big corporate tax cuts. :P
Bill Maher's show is recorded and posted online as a podcast. I don't agree with everything he says, but his show is still fantastic. ("We can pretend that the biggest threat to our children is some creep on the internet; or we can admit it's us. Because when your son can't find France on a map, or touch his toes with his hands, or understand that the ads on TV are lying... then the person fucking him is YOU.")
And it helps give you new insights. Today I learned that Ben Affleck occasionally has intelligent things to say!
So I'm moving to Boulder. ♥
libekory and I are making all these excited plans about how we'll do things that I expect we'll forget the moment we move in together.Among those, we're trying so hard to be good because our country is terrifying us. We're using Buy Blue to try and give our money to people who give THEIR money to Democrats. Upon researching, however, we discovered easier said than done. For instance, breakfast. Cereal is simply not blue. Kellogg's and Post and General Mills all donate pretty substantially Republican. Li-san even suggested diet shakes for breakfast, like Ensure, but on researching that it TOO belongs to something which donates heavily red.
Well, my conclusion was that we'll make the best of the companies that donate reasonably equally (Kellogg's is 56% GOP/44% Dem in donations) and buy blue where we can (buy Gateway, not Dell!).
It's not possible to live blue when the big corporations all want their big corporate tax cuts. :P