Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Podunk anymore

Another summer gone. One more year of school to get through. Funny how it doesn’t seem so bad here in Hawai‘i. Back in Milwaukee, school means winters so cold it hurts to breathe. Here, though, I’ll be wearing shorts and getting a tan all year long. And sending pictures of all this to my buds back in Milwaukee, along with notes like “The weather is beautiful… still. How’s Milwaukee?” Or maybe a simple, “Haha, suckers!”

Campaign sloganeering gone a-muck

The Bush-Cheney campaign was recently forced to pull a feature on its Web site that allowed users to create campaign logo items with customized slogans above the Bush-Cheney ’04 emblem. Presumably, liberals were abusing the feature by superimposing such slogans as “run for the hills” and “hey look—gay marriage.”