January 21, 2004
State of my Living Room
(In honor of our discovery of "WMD-like programs," the following will not be a blog post -- it will be a "post-like text string").
Around here, we treat politics like a sport. We go to bars and talk about cloture motions, argue over bad calls made by federal courts and constantly speculate about the primary campaign like a pennant race.
Therefore, it was no surprise that I spent last night in my living room with DCSOB's two other (very) occasional bloggers and the Token Republican Friend™. We had the official SOTU drinking game printed out on the table, but I evenutally gave up keeping track around the third time the Shrub mispronounced the word "nuclear."
More accurately, I gave up keeping score because we were only paying attention to the speech at intervals -- most of the time was spent in a shouting match with TRF™ about a variety of issues, from corporate taxation to "judicial activism" to sex education. Nothing was solved, no minds were changed and it was like The "O'Reilley Factor" right here in NW DC, but it was fun. I only wish I knew what Bush actually said all the times I couldn't hear him over the din.
Posted by rj3 at January 21, 2004 9:32 AM
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One of my favorite things about DC (I am not making this up):
I was in line at CVS, and there was a
homeless guy in front of me, buying
cigarettes. As he picked up his pack and his
rag/bag, he asked me if I was going to watch
the SOTU at home or with friends.
Posted by: Michael at January 21, 2004 10:18 AM
We amended "marriage" to the drinking game. That was a mistake. By the end, my roommate from PA was in a spluttering rage against Santorum (and Federal Marriage Amendment) and one of my other friends was rolling his eyes about how much another one of our friends was going to be ranting about the Patriot Act and Ashcroft today at work. Good times, good times.
Posted by: Amanda at January 21, 2004 10:26 AM