Christine Lukasik - Epic Shit

Well he is tall

Margaret Cho on Seattle public radio (KUOW) this morning said that John Kerry is an Ent. Bwahhhaaahhhaaaa! That's brilliant and funny as heck.

Daily Mirror front page

...and I heartily support American Coastopia (in case you're wondering, my Mom is now a property owner in Washington, so her residency in Ohio is really only a short-lived formality anyway so she's with us). Especially the part where gay men and women are free to marry at their own discretion. Especially that part.

I'm feeling pretty conflicted about the many reports of small glitches and irregularities in the voting on Tuesday. None of them individually are enough to change the outcome, and I'm sure with anything on this kind of scale there will be errors, but I can't help but be sort of hopeful that there was some kind of large-scale corruption and that this will all get reversed.

Florida

North Carolina

Ohio

Ohio

Lots and Lots about Ohio

I'm sure there's tons more, I'm just not sure whether to pay attention to it or dismiss it as so much election FUD (acronym lookup if you need it).

Marry an American

Single and ready to escape America? Let your fingers do the walking for open-minded Canadian spouses here at Marry an American (Thanks KristiLar for the link!) Straight boys may find a friend in Flicka, or her horse-loving pal Cheval Gal while hetero gals might find actor/usher Dener02004 to be just the ticket.

Posted By: Chris Lukasik

Nooooooooooooooooo

This is a bad dream, right?

Election eve...

So it's election eve and I find myself in a very surprising place: undecided.

No, no, not about the major one. That's not ever been in question. It's gonna be a ketchup landslide.

Oh - want to know what candidates or parties your neighbors contribute to? Check out FundRace.org - enter your address and FundRace.org returns a map of your neighborhood complete with name/address listings for all your neighbors who have contributed to a major candidate or party, when, and how much. Their calculations are based on records filed with the FEC of contributions by all individuals totalling more than $200 (and some totalling less than $200) to a single Republican or Democratic presidential campaign or national committee between January 1, 2003 and October 13, 2004.

Handy and almost disturbing.

Back to my voting quandry.

I'm undecided on Lands Comissioner. The zoologist (L) or the fireman (D)?

and also on Secretary of State. The plucky college student (L) who'd give us instant runoff voting, or my former Microsoft colleague (D)?

I guess if push comes to shove I'll have to go D just to keep the R from winning, but I hate to choose based on who I don't want to win.

Posted By: Chris Lukasik

Stewart to Crossfire "You're doing partisan hackery"

Jon Stewart becomes more and more my hero each day. His show is purely hilarious fake news brilliance that's more informative than any other media coverage I've seen during this election season. His book - a gift to America. It's as though he and the rest of the staff are saying "HELLO PEOPLE! This government stuff does not have to be BORING. Yes, you may learn and have fun". Recently he appeared on Crossfire to BEG them to engage in actual debate instead of the "theatre" and "partisan hackery" that is "hurting America" (watch it here).

Oh how I love Jon, Samantha, Steve, Stephen, Rob who never looks directly into the camera, Ed, and, of course, the previously gushed over Lewis Black.

The rest of the crew at The Daily Show are fab folks as well - while we were living in New York, we frequented tapings of the show thanks to Teri, the rock-star awesome audience co-ordinator. We saw some great great shows and guests but by far the best Daily Show event we attended was their September 11th fundraiser. It was sweet, difficult, completely from the heart, and gave the attendees not only permission but about a million reasons to laugh again. Aside from Jon, Lewis, and the rest of the on-air crew, many of the writers did bits onstage at the event and were some of the FUNNIEST people I've ever seen perform. One of the guys did a craft project of some sort with child art supplies that he brought on stage in a pencil box. I know the description doesn't do it justice but trust me, it was comic brilliance.

I'm just so happy that the show is doing so well and being recognized so much and I hope each and every person on the staff knows that they're doing the country a huge service. I mean, they're a "fake news" show on a comedy network that also airs prank calling puppets and they're producing the most honest political coverage we've got. Sheesh. They should all get gold medals and 10 million dollar sports-star-style contract bonuses.

Posted By: Chris Lukasik

Electoral College Vote Predictor

Awesome but terrifying site that examines state by state polls and projects the number of electoral votes for each candidate against the 270 that are required to win. It also has a graph tracking the electoral college Kerry v Bush since May 24th.

Um, folks, we're in trouble here.

Link from the fine folks at No Vote Left Behind.

Posted by: Chris Lukasik