The Return of the Link Fest

Blog posts I may or may not actually write:

Post 1: You can imagine the Prop 8 environment at Stanford. Will link to an op-ed I wrote if it gets published in tomorrow's paper. Tom, it is the same one you wrote at Pomona for Prop 22.

Post 2: Obama victory. I will vote for him. Unfortunately, I think our hopes will deflate along with the economy. In the words of one, very bitter, economist:

Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.

Perhaps slightly less vitriolically put here:

Altogether, Mr. Obama is promising at least $4.3 trillion of increased spending and reduced tax revenue from 2009 to 2018 -- roughly an extra $430 billion a year by 2012-2013.

My own view of Washington is that it is an evil hydra-headed succubus. That's unimportant. What is important is that it evolved to be one and all those Darwinian tentacles don't let go of their spot easily. Part of me always liked that Clinton was nasty, battle-hardened, and, objectively speaking, had larger testicles than Barack. Their are plenty of vicious people in Washington waiting to politically assassinate him (although, heaven forbid, a literal assassination has crossed my mind--a cross between JFK and MLK seems doubly likely). Our pretty Harvard boy is going to look like an impotent blowhard, bless his soul, pretty soon.

Post 3: May heaven bless the baby boomers--that's the only hope I have. I will resent paying for their Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drugs (not to mention bailing out their 401ks) as well as suffering higher taxes only to have the system blow up around my retirement. Obama doesn't help by pandering like a baby to AARP.

Post 4: Oil, Power, Empire, written by a Berkeley guy. I am anxiously awaiting the hate-filled diatribe against Cheney. Yes, I ordered it.

Post 5: Creepy former letter for creepers. Yes!

Bedtime.