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This one goes out to my buddy Aaron , a fellow John Edwards fan. I propose this song as John Edwards’ new theme song. The phrase “left and right” takes on new meaning when you take it from boxing and put it to politics. Whaddya think? “The Contender” Royal Crown Revue The lights are spinnin’ I gotta get myself up off the floor My head is ringin’ Bet they think I can’t take too much more The crowd is howlin’…

“In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can’t do that,” [Gov.] Schwarzenegger said Sunday on NBC. As quoted in the LA Times today.

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So I’ve been procrastinating today, mostly ignoring my Econ study that I should be doing, reading my classmates’ thesis chapter drafts (to my credit I did one), and have just been messing around online and playing with my blog. Tomorrow I will hit the Econ full-force and am going to the SLC review on Monday. Rachel and I watched You Only Live Twice last night (well, we finished it this morning), which rocked. Ninjas flip out and kill people in…

Yesterday was pretty busy. I ditched Farsi in the morning in favor of sleeping, headed over to my grandparents’ house for Thursday interviews (which didn’t happen — we had lunch and I played the doting grandson extraordinaire (ie, Mac consultant for free)), headed to Econ lecture, handed off the tickets to the John Caroll lecture to Sunaree , and finally met up with Garett for a focus group on Cal Dining. In exchange for “dinner” (read: two pieces of mediocre…

Wow. I sit before my laptop, ready to write about this really interesting Salon article about life inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, and my iTunes playlist pulls up Percy Grainger’s Colonial Song at random. Heh. Even funnier is that this song, written by an Australian, is a slow, lyrical tune which seems to me to express longing and homage to his homeland — which I doubt is much how the CPA employees feel that Jen Banbury writes about. Anyway,…

An LJer from Minnesota had a neat idea: Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall. He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver to any couple — it didn’t matter who — standing in line to get married, with his blessing. The card will read simply “With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.” Once they understood, they were very touched…

Wow! The OCF is back up!

So I forgot — I have an extra free ticket (UCB students [or people who can pass as students, like Maria]) for the event tomorrow night in Zellerbach, with John Carroll (one of the editors at the LA Times) and Michael Krasny, the host of KQED-Forum. 7:30 pm tomorrow night. Any takers?

Lots of things from the blogosphere today that are noteworthy (in the order I read them): Boing Boing posted about a study about free Wi-Fi, confirming what I had suspected, which is that free Wi-Fi leads to more business, and pay Wi-Fi leads to less business. When I lived in Palo Alto over the summer, I used to go to La Crème de Café on Loma Verde and Middlefield Ave. because they had free Wi-Fi (and also pay Wi-Fi, which…