I don't disagree with you, but if the democrats had put up a candidate that was at ALL appealing, I wouldn't have repeated my first mistake. I mean really... Kerry? So many better choices back then than him.

I actually met GWB before he held any office, back in his drinking days. Even then, even at his worst, he was a man of sincerity and integrity. I've met other congressmen and senators and to a one, they all care deeply about their constituency. Unfortunately, you can't be sincere, stand on principle, or have integrity and be a successful politician.

And while voting for one candidate over another may be a mistake, it's really not stupid per se. It's always a "lesser of two evils" decision. My mistake, like most of my fellow citizens, is believing anything that comes out of their mouths. Not that they are not sincere or that they don't care because they do. But the system is set up such that they will be ostracized and won't get elected unless they compromise their principles. Don't believe me? You watch the voting records of any on the holier-than-thou Tea Party members. NOT ONE of them will stand on principles. Everyone of them will vote the party line.

I'm afraid we are going to see the most stagnant congress in the history of the United States.

Obama's net neutrality pledge was one of the reasons I voted for him after voting for Republican presidential candidates for so many years. (That, and attempting to right the wrong of voting for dubya--twice.) It is now clear to me that they are ALL a bunch of lying hypocrites. And that I'm just not as smart as I thought I was...

That's it--we have now reached the critical mass of human stupidity. There's just no hope for us any more.

You're kidding, right? The mechanical, aeronautical, electrical and civil engineers not certified? Not only were they all engineers, they were the best of the best, the cream of the crop. A lot of guys wanted to be NASA engineers, and most of them were not hired. This is not a good comparison.

If "familiarity" was the issue, then why move the fsck'ing window buttons to the upper left? I don't buy that as an argument.

I'm traveling a lot now, so I'm reading a lot. I picked up the James Patterson "Alex Cross" series on my Kindle. I tried to buy the next book in the series Thursday only to find that no James Patterson books were available. Turns out that Hachette books had blocked all book sales while Amazon switched to the "agency model". Agency model means that Amazon acts as an agent for the publisher instead of a middleman/retailer like they do for paper books.

It was a short-lived outage, and I was able to buy the next book this morning. For a dollar more. Not a big deal, but I see the end of my love affair with the Kindle real soon now. If this is the way they're going to play, I'm just not interested.

So much for _that_ motto... as if they lived by it in the first place.

Is it really necessary to disparage every citizen of a specific state? And which Texans are you calling "dumbasses"? The ultra left-wingers in Austin or the West U folks in Houston? The ultra right-wingers in the NASA area south of Houston? The "buckle of the bible belt" East Texans? The nouveau-riche in Dallas and Houston? The Tex-Mex groups in San Antonio and along the border?

Texas is too diverse a state to label everyone with one brush.