Go to YouTube and search for “literal version”. There are some great remakes of music videos. I hope many more are made.

Well, in one week we can see how wrong or right I am. Here goes, my prediction for the 2008 elections:
Barack Obama wins every state won by John Kerry. His narrowest margins in the 04 Blue states are in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Obama also wins, in declining order of margin of victory: Iowa, New Mexico, […]

My favorite sport is baseball, but I’m just not into this year’s World Series. Probably because I have no feelings for the teams playing this year, one way or another.

From the AP:
 ”Republican John McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style — at a podium standing in front of a sea of campaign workers jammed into a hotel ballroom.”
“But the Republican presidential nominee plans to address another group of supporters and a small group of reporters on the […]

“Western Kentucky University is under lock-down after the threat of a gunman on school grounds.
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Kentucky State Police, Bowling Green Police, and WKU Police have evacuated South Campus.”
http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/32402744.html

Today I applied for a passport, in the hopes that I’ll be able to use it next year. Yes, this is my first. The only place I’ve gone outside the US is Canada, which I’ve visited five times.
 I wanted to go to Europe last summer, but the value of the dollar relative to the euro […]

Funny site:
http://yeswecarve.com/

“Expensive liquor and cheap women.”
That’s all I heard. Interesting tidbit, though.

According to Jonathan Martin, http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Jindal_to_visit_Iowa_next_month.html?showall, our own Governor Bobby Jindal will be visiting my home state of Iowa next month - yes, the state with the first presidential nominating contest. As soon as the 2008 election is called, apparently, the 2012 elections begin.
Many Republican strategists have already conceded that McCain will lose, and are thinking […]

I just read an extremely interesting story on Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14624.html
“Sen. Barack Obama is on offense, and Sen. John McCain on defense, and the next 19 days offer little chance of a change in that dynamic. ”
Basically, Obama is leading or close in polls in 10 states that were Red in 2004, and McCain is leading […]