Ah, Students for Kucinich.

A couple of us were awake at an obscene hour a couple nights ago, and decided that everyone really needed to get started on our big Students for Kucinich projects. The very next morning, we congregated here in the Intern Pit to start assigning specific tasks:

Harrison! Teach people how to start up SFK groups! Also teach people how to register to vote!

Asher! Write up a proposal for the $10 for Truth project! Tell people about the primary elections!

Josef! Write a proposal for another campaign idea! Contact lots of people and be friendly!

Stacey! Make pictures!

Ben! Keep watching tapes!

Hal! Hole yerself up in a dark room upstairs and make us sixteen websites! NO LESS THAN SIXTEEN. GO.

Great idea, right? It's important work, it needs to be done. However, as Asher mentioned, The Intern Family Hydra has just lost three heads. I illustrate:

"OH NO"

This means two things: an obvious change in atmosphere, and fewer thingdoers doing things. Thus, we've all been running around inside the office here for longer hours than usual. Harrison and Asher just sit at their computers and type all day long. Josef is contacting important people and being astoundingly friendly (in between sitting at his computer and typing as much as Harrison and Asher). I've been spending much time hovering over and around a copy machine. Hal... Poor Hal. His comings and goings are mostly unbeknownst to us-- all we really know is that he does very late nights.

In addition to this new SfK work, we have to do everything else that we had been working on before. We also have to answer phones.

We might see the sun approximately ten minutes a day, if we're lucky. Make no mistakes, we're getting a lot done at a decent pace. In the teeny little meanwhiles, though, we're becoming a wee bit unstable. In other words, it's been pretty crazy to the point where we've pretty much caught crazy. Harrison started talking in a voice that was something between "manly announcer" and "old-school Batman"-- which made us laugh 'til we cried. Asher won't (can't) stop beatboxing. Ben walks into the room every once in a long while, singing a line from some eighties tune in falsetto, and then walks out. Josef dances, and I cannot explain this any further. Me... I'm quiet. But rest assured, I'm going sufficiently crazy on the inside.

Josef says, "We're gonna lose it again today, you guys, I can feel it."

"A challenge, Josef? There is nothing I enjoy more," replies Harrison in his Batman voice.

I'm sure feelin' challenged. And I'm losing it. I can't piece together coherent thoughts too terribly well. So for this week's installment of Estasia's Thursday Pwnage, let's talk crazy.

When people have no solid arguments against something, sometimes they'll resort to petty insults. Lots of people have no legit reason to dislike Dennis Kucinich (or don't know enough about him to legitimately dislike him), so they pick on the way he looks. Judging by the things they say, Dennis isn't qualified to be president because he's too short. Or because he has ears that stick out some. Or because he gesticulates when he talks. Some people could simply never even consider a candidate who doesn't look and act exactly as they think a president should. Whatever, kids.

Well then, from there we consider the thought of supporting some candidate who voted for the war in Iraq and funded its continuation. The thought of voting for somebody who wants to give more money to insurance companies who deny patients coverage to make more money. The thought of voting for a rich corporate democrat of whom you've heard only because that candidate has been bought by those in charge of news coverage (see my last blog entry). How about voting for somebody who doesn't believe in what they're saying, somebody in whom you yourself can't entirely believe?

(..And it could go without saying that now, the thought of voting Republican at all is thoroughly crazy. But it won't.)

I'll tell you what all that is-- it's CRAZY. Voting (especially this time around) is a very important time NOT TO BE CRAZY.

I encourage everyone out there to encourage everyone else out there-- please, look into your favorite candidate's history and credentials, weigh the positives and negatives, and try your hardest to find out if there is another one who can do better. Vote for the one you can believe in, regardless of their reported popularity.
(yeah, it's probably Dennis. But seriously, don't take it straight from my mouth, people oughta figure it out for themselves.)

In final summation, I found some funny pictures of a few of the other candidates and wanted to incorporate them in this entry somehow. Do with them what you will.

















Join me in laughter.


Meanwhile, Josef has developed a German accent.
-s