Lost in OK

I know it’s been a really long time. I’ve been in another one of my Nathan reinvention phases. It really comes down to pretending to be an adult. It’s strange, I’ve never felt like an adult but I seem to be attempting to be one. My first step is finished, my first new car has arrived. It’s an unbelievable machine and a blast to drive. It almost makes me feel like a kid. ;) She’s already got 500 miles on her. Looks like the break-in period will be over before you know it.

There is nothing that inspires more confident than a pair of candidates who make sure not to take stand. ambivalence is really the way to the American heart. For example, check out the absent senators on the vote to shelve the Federal Marriage Amendment.

[Listening to: The Fifth Element - Columbia Pictures - (02:06:03)]
Mini Cooper Status: IT’S HERE!!!!!

O’Rourke is back and he’s taking on social discourse. I’ve never understood how any man can be this funny. Here’s just the first few sentences:

Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don’t listen to him. I listen to NPR: “World to end—poor and minorities hardest hit.” I like to argue with the radio. Of course, if I had kept listening to Limbaugh, whose OxyContin addiction was about to be revealed, I could have argued with him about drugs. I don’t think drugs are bad. I used to be a hippie. I think drugs are fun. Now I’m a conservative. I think fun is bad.

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Once again, Lady Thatcher proves her wisdom, insight and clarity is unmatched in her eulogy this morning for President Reagan. Here is a brief excerpt of her speech that really sums up Mr. Reagan’s life and career:

So the President resisted Soviet expansion and pressed down on Soviet weakness at every point until the day came when communism began to collapse beneath the combined weight of these pressures and its own failures. And when a man of goodwill did emerge from the ruins, President Reagan stepped forward to shake his hand and to offer sincere cooperation.

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