10 things I learned last week (December Edition)

1 - "Asian girls that like boys, that's totally different."
2 - "I could bitch slap your ass like no other."
3 - "Let me turn on my poon light."
4 - "I am the most benign person here."
5 - "I was just thinking and you were in my way."
6 - "Dog your Reservoir. Everyone cums in the end."
7 - It's always good to ask yourself, WWRD? (What would Randy do?)
8 - "I'm a little drunk and I'm blond, it's ok."
9 - "Purple Jesus!!"
10 - Who doesn't love jazz hands?

10 things I learned last week (Thanksgiving edition)

1 - "Take it to the belly!"
2 - "Are we public?"
3 - "He's gonna get in the Whitehouse and open up a can of Jihad."
4 - "Man milk, muscle milk."
5 - "You can call me daddy."
6 - "It's the J-town slap."
7 - If it's cat on cat, it's not wrong.
8 - "This is the tasty part of the turkey."
9 - Starch, ya gotta love it.
10 - "I'm sorry it took me 20 minutes to put on Birkenstocks."

10 things I learned last week (And by last week I mean late October/early November)

1 - I can now say I've seen a cockwheel.
2 - "Feel my fur." - "That's not furry, that's fucking porcupine hair."
3 - "Is that what's wrong with you, a beetle got up inside your head?"
4 - "I took my shoes off because I wanted a foot massage."
5 - "I wanna marry him and have little Jeff Fisher babies."
6 - "My cigarette was already lit."
7 - "I'm gonna go make-out now, bye y'all."
8 - "I know my body like I know this bar."
9 - If they can pass you drinks through it, it's called a glory hole.
10 - "I don't think I've ever looked at your face."

10 things I learned this week (With no job the weeks blend together so it's been a few weeks)

1 - "As long as you wake up feeling like a glazed doughnut."
2 - "He's huge in Korea...and Pittsburgh."
3 - "I'm eating midget feet."
4 - "If I saw a penis sticking out of a hole, I would not suck it."
5 - I know someone named "Senor Gropes-a-lot".
6 - "She's George Bush in a dress." - Nine year old in reference to Sarah Palin
7 - "Some lesbian motor boated my pigtails."
8 - "That's like having sex without an orgasm."
9 - September/October are the best months to get laid off.
10 - When someone says, "Be good.", I think the mean be well, cause I don't like being good.

10 things I learned this week(end)

1 - "Would you eat my elk?"
2 - Shool starer
3 - Cockhorn
4 - "She's havin' a ham sandwich."
5 - Hotdog Salad
6 - "Who doesn't want money in the bank in both places?"
7 - Easy is not always that easy
8 - Square peg, round hole, no problem
9 - WWDD?
10 - Fantasy Football made me root for the Redskins

10 things I learned this week

1 - Melon Cream
2 - Rinse and Repeat
3 - Disco brunch rocks!!!
4 - Up, down, and up again.
5 - "If I was straight, I would eat you out!"
6 - Apparently, if it's exposed, you can touch it.
7 - I'm a part of the traveling shit show. I may even be the ring leader.
8 - I look like Jesus.
9 - "We be Dubbin'"
10 - "I peed in church" (That has to be better than pootin' in church.)

And a couple extra for the crowd...

11 - "She's got panties in her pants."
12 - "I'm not gay, I just like to eat pussy."

The new (old) face of politics

As someone born after the civil rights movement, I have only experienced the thrill and fear that converges during times of real change through the memory of family and friends, books and articles detailing the events, and video footage of great leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John and Bobby Kennedy, and Malcolm X. I have felt awe for the men and women that have stood up against the status quo and outright hatred such as Rosa Parks, The Little Rock Nine, and the SNCC. I have felt rage over stories of atrocities such as the murder of Medgar Evers, the bombing in Birmingham, Ala., and the kidnapping and violent murder of Emmett Till. But never, not once during my lifetime, have ever felt that I was present during a time of true change and witnessed someone that has moved me to "believe" that change is possible.

Until now.

I cannot guarantee that Barack Obama will be a great president. I cannot guarantee that he will make this country better then it is now. But I do know that he has expressed a vision, a vision of change that I have not heard, nor felt in my lifetime. When I listen to Obama, I feel the way that I felt the first time I heard MLK Jr. delivered his famous speeches. It is truly fitting that Barack will be accepting the first African-American presidential nomination to a major party, on the anniversary of MLK's 'I have a Dream' speech. Just as the line "I may not get there with you." seemed prophetic when he stated it in the 'Mountaintop' speech the day before his assassination, the words "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'" seems to speak of this moment, and this day.

We are truly on the precipice of a momentousness occasion; One that I hope we can embrace and own. For me, this election is not just about picking the next president. It is my time to feel that I am truly witnessing what my parents spoke of when they talked about the changes that they observed during their lifetime. It is my time to be excited about politics, my country, and where we can go.

Yes we can!