a not-so-deep political debate

Since the presidential race started to pick up I've had a lot of people make the comment that Barack Obama voted against the Iraq war. Please stop saying this, because it is WRONG. Obama may have opposed the war, but he was not even a member of the Senate in 2002 when the vote happened; it's impossible for him to have voted against it, and yet people keep saying as much. If anything, his voting record suggests otherwise as he's voted for every bill funding the war since joining the Senate in 2005. Dennis fucking Kucinich is the only D. candidate to actually vote against the war at the time. On a related note, the stupid fucking facebook candidate chooser test thing matched me kinda high with Mr. Dennis fucking Kucinich, and I spent the rest of the day curled up in a corner crying and cutting myself. Oh, and in my Superior opinion, if you're determined to vote Democrat you should support Bill Richardson. He seems to suck markedly less than the other choices.

If you've ever bitched about illegal immigration (DEY TOOK OUR JEBS!!), or thought building a big-ass wall across the Mexican border seemed a sound decision, go read this: Classically Liberal: The logic of the anti-immigrant crowd. I see no compelling reason to add anything to this, seeing as he's done a fine job with it all and I'm lazy and kinda want to just go pretend to take a nap for a bit. On a related note, I re-watched Highlander last night and fuck is that a fantastic movie. Not only does it drop the pretense of using an article in the title (though the villain appropriately adopts one in reference to himself: he is not Kurgan, but rather THE Kurgan. Brilliant.); it also features the quintessential 80's movie ballad: a soaring tale of woeful longing composed by one Brian May specifically for the film after seeing a screening and being like "god damn, this movie is awesome. I want to write the entire soundtrack for it!" and they did, and it was great. Anyways this is relevant because [little known fact] Brian May and the rest of Queen were illegal immigrants and had we built a giant wall between the U.S. and Great Britain Highlander might have gone without it's quintessential 80's movie ballad theme and such a travesty would be like 9/11 times one thousand. That's right, nine hundred and eleven thousand! The fact that the whole Queen illegal immigration thing is nothing sort of farcical is irrelevant, as I assume it true for continuity alone.