Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

All right, so I've seen this quiz all over the place now, (though it was Rantings of A Space Cadet's straw that broke the [Insert Political Mascot of Choice]'s back), and I figured I'd go ahead and do it again.

I'd already taken it you see, but had not actually retrieved the results in a post-able way. Anyway, here it is.

You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (63% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

For the most part, I think it's pretty accurate, though I tend to want to resist being labeled as a "libertarian" because, although I agree with some of their principles, I don't really think that the "Libertarian" party speaks for me. At least not on a Federal government level.

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Wow, just got a bit of a blast from the past. I was checking out some of my readership statistics and I noticed that someone found my site by Google-searching "tequila shots with cinammon and orange".

The reason that's so cool is because it links all the way back to my VERY FIRST BLOG POST EVER, all the way back on June 20th, 2003.

Wow, that means I've been doing this for over two years now. I hadn't quite realized that before. Of course, that included a pair of big long chunks of time where I wasn't doing any posting, but still!

Also, I still maintain that cinammon and orange is a good way to do tequila shots. It's a whole different taste sensation, but it gets you just as drunk! Bonus!

P.S. I saw that someone also found my site by googling "impalation free movies".

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As it happens, my site, (more specifically, my House of Wax review) turns out to be the number one link for impalation movies!

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I haven't written anything yet about the storm because really, what is there to say?

Terrible tragedy. Devastation. And so on.

I don't mean to be glib or dismissive. It's just that natural disasters happen, always have and always will. It's terrible, but really all you can do is try to be as prepared as possible and to remember that sometimes it won't be enough.

A lot of people are enduring hellish conditions right now, and I've been feeling heartsick with sympathy, but what I hadn't felt until this afternoon was despair.

Natural disasters happen. There's nothing that you can do. It's nobody's fault. It's only before and after that we can play any significant role, and while there are certainly stories of heroism and altruism coming out of Katrina's aftermath, those aren't the ones that have been the most powerful.

It's not even just the looting. As reprehensible as looting is, it's at least an understandable sin. Some people just need food or water and they don't have any other options, so I don't think we can blame them very much, but the people stealing clothes and TV's are pretty disgusting. Still, that's nothing new, and it basically just comes down to greed, which is also nothing new.

Then I hear today on the radio about rescue boats and helicopters that have had to turn around and come back empty handed because people were shooting at them!

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Now, I know I can tend to be idealistic, but I like to think that I have a relatively realistic understanding of the world. It's not often that I am this thoroughly shocked and disgusted by people.

This won't break me down into a jaded bitter cynic. I'm sure that I'll eventually regain my optimism and idealism.

But right now, I just want to cry.

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