One long day, for me and Kenny Boy

Today has been really weird, just drawn out and long. For some reason I'm having a real hard time focusing one one particular thing right now, maybe its end of the week stuff. My resume and everythign looks good, me and my family will work on sending stuff out tomorrow, and one of my professor's will look at it tomorrow to see that its ok. Then my family will come down Saturday, we'll get stuff to gether and go out, and then they'll leave sometime early Sunday. It'll be quick, but hopefully we'll get a lot done, grocery shopping, putting out resumes and taking stuff home chief among the priorities. Last night's first class was just a bit off for some reason, hopefully it will get better next week when we get into our real room.

I hope, I think like the rest of America, that Ken Lay goes down and goes down hard. I don't think he believes he's done anything illegal, perhaps just unethical. But I don't know that any jury isn't going to convict. A judge might not, but the grand jury took its time on the indictment, so they should get it right. One potential problem for the White House will be if Lay suddenly feels like talking, about the Energy commission, about Saudi oil money, about giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in money and services to Bush, we'll know soon enough what exactly their reationship was like.

One voting bloc seems to be underestimated by a lot of people, particularly Republicans. That is the voting bloc controlled (potentially) by Howard Stern. There are a lot of young men out there, in their mid to late 20's, and politically disengaged, that will do essentially anything Howard tells them. Since September 11th, Stern has been behind Bush, reflecting the general mood of the country. Since the FCC Crackdown started, however, the tide has turned in Stern's mind. He's been going hard against Bush, and he's been adding affiliates across the country (on Infinity) to make up for the loss of the ones Clear Channel owned, that dumped him. The FCC and Clear Channel are both big Bush supporters, though the FCC just sort of carries out his wishes and can't contribute any money the way CC does. If Stern tells his listeners, especially in places like Florida, Michigan and Ohio to go and vote, and vote for Kerry, they will. They don't know the issues and aren't particularly informed, but they have reason to dislike Bush, Howard said so. That may be enough to pick up some crucial states. Now, if we could just get Single women to vote more, we'd be all set.