This is the part in the show where Alex goes way out of his way to demonstrate to the world how lame and square he really is by drafting a long polemic seeking to justify his squareness. Be warned graphic stiffness contained hearin read further only with extreme caution.
Still here? Good (I guess). […]

I finally posted another Vermont campaign update. In order to keep all the updates together and chronological I posted it on the day it covers, not the day I finished writing it. So you will need to scroll down to read it. Or click here.
Read and enjoy. I’ll get to […]

Wow… weird stuff folks. Weird stuff.
More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what’s causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.
Both the pond’s water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable […]

I got an e-mail the other day complaining about the NYRA slogan of “Last Civil Rights Movement”:
Your website declares the your personal fight to lower the drinking age is “the last civil rights movement.” What an audacious, unfounded and disrespectful claim!
As Robert Scheer has recently argued the movement for same-sex marriage is a civil rights […]

I spotted this fun dialect quiz on Matthew Yglesias’ blog, and I present to thee further proof I am a proud midwesterner. Though while I couldn’t admit it on the quiz, I do admit that “soda” is rubbing off on me…. I feel ashamed.

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

25% Upper […]

Well the conclave went quite quickly. I didn’t expect it to go so quick, nor did I think that Cardinal Ratzinger would get the election, but that’s what happened. I’m not yet sure what I think about him. He seems to be the most obvious heir to Pope John Paul II, which […]

As some people were waiting to hear news about me on CBS’ The Early Show, I regretfully inform you I won’t be on. I called my contact back today, and she said it was bumped AGAIN, and honestly now its like a week and a half away from our Vermont thing, and she thinks […]

Just a heads up to everyone checking this blog for updates on the Vermont campaign. The campaign is now over (I still need to post some more updates, I’m backlogged, be patient), but press attention continues. Today was a great article in the New York Times (if you don’t have a NY Times […]

Woke up in Bennington at the Knotty Pine. I slept well at the motel. I forget when we got up, but I paid for the room, and we picked up some breakfast at McDonalds. Then it was back to Route 7 and north up to Middlebury again.
We had a bit […]

We got up early today, and were out of the house a bit after 8:30 am. I got all spiffed up in my suit and Dave and I followed Hardy out to Burlington High School. BHS is Jay’s high school, and he was able to arrange an assembly for us at like 9:30. […]