revolution is in the air!

[spoonless]

Above are pictures from this halloween of icarusdiver (Zombie, front left), geheimnisnacht (mad baker, front right), and myself (V For Vendetta, back). The "bring pluto back" protester was with a group of people we ran into while wandering around downtown, physics undergrads. He handed me a flyer that said "Support a 9 Planet Solar System!" and had a web url http://www.bringbackpluto.org... looks like it actually is a real website, whether serious or not.

I just uploaded a bunch of pics from previous halloweens. Most of them I've already posted at some point or another to this journal, but they weren't actually in the gallery, which you can find here As a bonus, here's photo of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins signing my copy of The God Delusion a couple weeks ago.

Congratulations, democrats, on retaking congress... well done. Gridlock will hopefully stop Bush and his cronies from further assaulting the freedoms of US citizens, such as his recent whimsical suspension of habeus corpus, and the bill he passed to make himself immune from being tried for war crimes, and the bill he passed giving himself emergency powers to declare martial law whenever he feels like it. It seems he was getting rather desperate towards the election to get certain things passed... hopefully, this will at least be enough to stop him from further abusing his power.

"People should not be afraid of their government--government should be afraid of its people." -V

Comments

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

my family wasn't since they're conservative, but I told them hey, with a Republican executive branch and a Democratic Congress, there'll be so much gridlock the government won't be able to get anything done, and you'll like that ;)

Yeah, that's the main reason I'm happy about this election. I was also pleased when the Republicans took over Congress during the Clinton administration. Usually, the only new laws I agree with are ones that limit or weaken old laws... unfortunately, these tend to be few and far between. This election is especially a relief as the new laws that have been getting passed recently are among the scariest I've seen in my lifetime.

I personally don't see how Bush appeals to conservatives. I guess I can see how his theocratic bigotry appeals to some neo-cons, but he's done more to waste the taxpayers money than any democrat I've seen. Government is now bigger, scarier, and more dangerous than ever with him in control. Unfortunately, my family is also in the same boat as yours--they don't seem to understand how different he is from the old conservatives.

[montensem.livejournal.com]

i want a freaking social liberal/economic conservative candidate. we need more like, big city republicans. and then i wouldn't be a democrat.