Hubbicula’s blog

I promise you people, this blog will not, for the next four to eight years, be a gushing praise-a-thon for President Barrack Hussein Obama. What he gets right he gets right, but the missteps will get noted, too.
But straight out of the gate, O'bam is in the plus column. As one of his first acts--if not the first act--as President, Obama reversed Bush's absurd derailment of the Presidential records act. Read it for yourself in your prefered format: Left Wing Fringe or Nutwing Fantasyland. (When looking at the Washington Times site, be sure and check out the truly crazy posts, consisting primarily of daydreaming about BHO's "real" birth certificate, which will surely prove he's from Muslim Mars, and thus not a legitimate holder of office. Republican friends: If you want to know why you're losing elections, this is why. More on that in another post.)

SO, right on, O'Bam (insert terrorist fist jab here). This may not change our lives terrifically, but it addresses one of the single most agregious slaps in the face to public intelligence of the Bush Era. And that's saying something.

So, Obama's human. No screaming eagle shit. He's gonna have a li'l fuckup here n'there. But nevertheless--if he can do even halh the shit right even half the time, I believe we will rise, phoenix-like, from the ash heap of stupidity, evil, incompetence and corruption that has been our government's hallmark for the past eight years. And if you've forgotten what those things look like, here's a quick reminder:

Stupidity

Evil

Incopetence

Corruption

(*Corruption--see also, avarice.)

I'm not sure, but this may be depression.
And by that, I don't mean an economic anomaly.
Things, in general, do not appear to be going well. I'm not getting on with people beyond a superficial level. I'm not really "succeeding" at anything. I have a Web site that absolutely refuses to produce itself. I don't seem to be what employers are looking for.
I flew all the way to Arizona just so I could break an $8,000 lens before I even took a single shot with it.
Yeah, that one kind of blew. 
On the same trip, another lens also shit the bed on me, but it only cost around $240 to replace. Wheee!
I'm getting foggy and fatty.
Oh, how I could bitch and moan.

I'm just not sure what to do with myself. I exercise, I read, I interact with people when I can flag them down. I suppose I should be writing more, and maybe blogging more than once a month.

Currently reading:
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Jarred Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (because you're never too old to take the Foreign Service Exam)
David Cat Johnston's Free Lunch.
Also see the recent Harper's for a brief piece by Joseph Stiglitz & Co. on the "10,000,000,000,000 Hangover," or "how we'll all be in debt for a while now."

Also, I'll put out a call for authors. If anyone wants to recommend their favorite author, and top 3 titles, I'd love to hear, discuss, etc.

"Everything you ever dreamed of is just a few hundred clicks away."

Yep. I think this pretty much sets the tone.

Holy shit, do I have a victory hangover.
Not from alcohol, really--just from covering the effing thing all day. Which sort of went on forever.
But totally worth it.

Hello, all.  First let me say, I don't think I'll be sleeping this week.  Just one of those general grad-school hunches.

If you're a Republican, working with Sen. Lieberman is not "working across the aisle."  It's more like... shaking hands with the janitor.  The janitor who sells weed to the high school kids in the rec center.

for McCain absolutlely butchering "Ahmadinejad" while making crazy googly eyes.

Did O-bay not just say, "I've got a bracelet too!"?
Drink for Jan Brady moment.

...every time Obama pronounces "Pakistan," etc. "correctly" (e.g., "Pahk-es-tahn," "Ear-rock")
... every time McCain pronounces the same words like a midwestern hick. (e.g., "Pack-iz-tan," "Eye-rack")
Okay, this new rule has earned us six drinks in two minutes...