Tuesday, January 20, 2004
this evening i went to the exciting precinct 19 Iowa City presidential caucus. i'd been a casual Kerry supporter up until the last minute when i switched to Dean. i figured that Dean was the only candidate who had the cash to defeat Bush, and whether or not i agreed with his issues (which i mostly do), was kind of irrelevant. and i realized that i think i didn't like Dean only because i'm automatically against the popular things, and that i was only FOR Kerry because he looks like Alan Alda.
yeah, i'm so politically smart. actually, i look at this election as nothing more than Get Rid of Bush '04, so i really don't care who gets the nomination, and i certainly don't agree with pitting democrats against democrats. i think most of the other folks at my caucus felt the same way. there was no mudslinging or anything. it was unity a lot more than it was devisiveness.
tonight my car's odometer hit 100,000 miles. pretty close to its tenth birthday too. it was at 77,000, i think, when i got it. i calculated its average speed since May 2001 (when i got it): 1.01 mph. impressive. the ruthless Japanese efficiency of my car has taken me to eleven U.S. states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. since i graduated from high school, that machine has been one of the very, very few constants in my life. long live it.
yeah, i'm so politically smart. actually, i look at this election as nothing more than Get Rid of Bush '04, so i really don't care who gets the nomination, and i certainly don't agree with pitting democrats against democrats. i think most of the other folks at my caucus felt the same way. there was no mudslinging or anything. it was unity a lot more than it was devisiveness.
tonight my car's odometer hit 100,000 miles. pretty close to its tenth birthday too. it was at 77,000, i think, when i got it. i calculated its average speed since May 2001 (when i got it): 1.01 mph. impressive. the ruthless Japanese efficiency of my car has taken me to eleven U.S. states: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. since i graduated from high school, that machine has been one of the very, very few constants in my life. long live it.
