Lordy I’m tired. A couple of thoughts while I soak my feet. Today, I ran around with one of the grrls from Blondesense working for Webb and against the hate amendment in VA. It was fun, informative, and tiring.

First off, let me say that campaigns need to come out of the 1950s. A relative told me today (from a different state) that she would be burning all campaign literature delivered to her doorstep between now and election day. Not that she’s apolitical, simply- she’s been showered with it and the paper trail will supply kindling for her fires for months to come. It’s a simple question to me: who really thinks a flyer or doorknob reminder will change any voter’s mind? Or even get a ’low information’ voter to come out to vote, over sitting around and watching Oprah on Tuesday? I smelled a lot of BBQ today, heard a lot of hooting over football; I’m not sure leaving a flyer in the door will convince those folks to do their Democratic duty.  Read more 

Well, it’s just the gift that keeps on giving, n’est pas? Felix was a Thug before Thug was cool:
Shelton said Allen used the N-word only around white teammates when they played for the Cavaliers in the early 1970s. Allen was a quarterback; Shelton a tight end and wide receiver.

During a deer hunt with Allen in the early 1970s, Shelton said, Allen asked whether black families lived in the area and stuffed the severed head of a female deer into a black household’s oversized mail box.

“George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little shocked by that,” Shelton said.

“This was just after the movie “The Godfather” came out with the severed horse’s head in the bed,” Shelton told the AP.  Read more