This blog post comes to you in three parts!
Part I (Poker):
It's been quite a long time since I played a serious game of poker, and this past week I played in two tournaments. I have to say, I am an extremely lucky player.
In the first tournament, I won two hands out of sheer luck, the first when my 9s in the hole beat out aces in the hole thanks to a lucky river card. A similar second hand gained me second place in the tournament.
Last night, however, I was my father's son. My father is the biggest bully I've ever encountered at the poker table, and I'm not ashamed to say that I bullied my way through the first two hours of play. The thing is, almost every hand I had the nuts. At one point, one of the girls at the table accused me of bullying and called my bluff. Only, I wasn't bluffing.
I ended up getting 10th in the tourney, out of 56 players, I believe. Not a bad showing, in my humble opinion.
The thing is, all this poker has made me miss Vegas. I want another trip there. Roulette, poker, blackjack, I want to play it all. I want to be there with Erin and my closest friends. The last trip I took there was awesome. I think that the next one could be truly amazing.
Part Two (Parties):
So last night I went to a party full of med students.
Holy. Crap.
One person in particular made the night for everyone. I'm not sure what this guy was on (he claims he was not high), but he was in rare form. All this guy wanted to do was dance... I'm just not exactly sure what dance school this guy went to. It was like some horrible mix of line dancing, disco, raving, and anything else you can think of.
What's more, he wasn't interested in dancing with anyone else. At one point, some girl displaying what I believe to be poor judgment decided to dance with him. At almost no point did he dance with the girl. He was more interested in doing his fucked up line dancing stuff. KAmi and I were trying to decide if he was gay, high, or just stupid.
Part Three (Old classmates):
I saw one of he kids from my high school graduating class today. He was pumping my gas. I could tell he recognized me, but was embarrassed because he immediately disappeared around the back of the building.
It makes me wonder how many of the kids I went to school with ended up going to college (and completing it). How many went to some sort of graduate school.
It also makes me feel so grateful to my parents for raising me to be intelligent and sending me to OSU, and for encouraging me through law school. For pushing me all through elementary, middle, and high school to get good grades, and for never accepting anything but my best.
I couldn't have made it as far as I have without them.
~ Nick
And it’s coming closer
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Disappointment
It's finally over.
For months, the election has invaded the news such that I stopped checking it in the mornings recently. I'm am so sick of the election that I hardly cared anymore who won. I resigned myself to the fact that Obama would take the day handily, but I can't say that I'm honestly happy about.
There are so many things that happened in this election that I don't agree with I hardly know where to start. Yet start I will.
Keep in mind that through this diatribe, I'm not devastated at Obama being in office. I don't necessarily agree with his views, but if he can get America excited about politics and involved, that would be awesome. Unfortunately, I fear that 90% of Americans will go back to their holes after tonight, not giving a flying fuck about what happens to the country now that "their man" is in office. "Change" will come!
[rant]
The Media
Wow. Just... wow. Bravo. The news outlets, who for decades have been bastions of unbiased news reporting, have completely alienated me in the last 3 months. Never before have I seen such biased reporting.
I had to actively search out news sites that weren't spewing about how awesome Obama was. Any chance to slam McCain was taken, yet the media deliberately ignored questionable facets of Obama's past, going so far as to forget whole years of his life ever existed.
There is one moment that sticks out in my mind, though, as the moment I lost all faith in the media. ABC news had a top story on their main page that was an opinion piece lambasting the news world for their bias, going so far as to tell stories about how he is embarrassed to tell people he's a reporter.
Not an hour after I see the story, I check ABC news again. The op-ed is moved down several slots, and the new top story, highlighted in bold letters with an amazing picture to accompany it, was an incredible Obama-biased article. I closed my laptop in disgust.
Campaigning and Financing
Fuck. Where do I begin? Obama's expenditures on this election were outrageous. I cannot believe that no one stood up and said something while, in the middle of the largest economic crisis of our time, the man spent ludicrous amounts of money to fuel his campaign. What the hell? Seriously, does no one else see a problem with this? And where was the money coming from? More than once, he got caught for accepting money from foreigns in the Middle East, breaking the law. People cheated to give over the limited amount, again breaking the law. I do not understand how this gets overlooked.
Race and Gender
The most upsetting thing to me this election is the fact that the policies didn't count for shit this year. Qualifications didn't matter. This whole election was based on who the candidates were, not what they stood for. Tonight, every person of color that was interviewed on a news site was asked something along the lines of "How does this historic night make you feel?"
The response was always the same: "I'm just so glad to have a black man in office."
How many people voted for Barack just because he is black (sort of)? We'll never know, but I suspect that it's a much higher number than most people are willing to admit.
And McCain was forced to play against the race card in a drastic fashion, choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. Never once has there been a worse decision. Palin alienated so many moderate voters that it very well may have been the move that cost McCain the election. She is not very intelligent, doesn't have a great record, is too conservative for most of the country, and was just a bad choice. I understand choosing a woman, he needed to fight the race card, but I think it was a bad decision that made him look a bit desperate. However, she was far, far too conservative.
Many say he was appeasing the far right, but I ask why? The far right is not going to vote democrat. Never. Did he think they'd swing to Obama out of spite? Hardly. It's frustrating.
[/rant]
There's more I could say, but my third beer beckons.
Hey, I'm mourning the fall of capitalism at the hands of affirmative action, give me a break. =P
As one of my friends said, so aptly, " Nah dude, I like never being able to ascend in society."
~ Nick
Watching in disregard, You live a nice life
For months, the election has invaded the news such that I stopped checking it in the mornings recently. I'm am so sick of the election that I hardly cared anymore who won. I resigned myself to the fact that Obama would take the day handily, but I can't say that I'm honestly happy about.
There are so many things that happened in this election that I don't agree with I hardly know where to start. Yet start I will.
Keep in mind that through this diatribe, I'm not devastated at Obama being in office. I don't necessarily agree with his views, but if he can get America excited about politics and involved, that would be awesome. Unfortunately, I fear that 90% of Americans will go back to their holes after tonight, not giving a flying fuck about what happens to the country now that "their man" is in office. "Change" will come!
[rant]
The Media
Wow. Just... wow. Bravo. The news outlets, who for decades have been bastions of unbiased news reporting, have completely alienated me in the last 3 months. Never before have I seen such biased reporting.
I had to actively search out news sites that weren't spewing about how awesome Obama was. Any chance to slam McCain was taken, yet the media deliberately ignored questionable facets of Obama's past, going so far as to forget whole years of his life ever existed.
There is one moment that sticks out in my mind, though, as the moment I lost all faith in the media. ABC news had a top story on their main page that was an opinion piece lambasting the news world for their bias, going so far as to tell stories about how he is embarrassed to tell people he's a reporter.
Not an hour after I see the story, I check ABC news again. The op-ed is moved down several slots, and the new top story, highlighted in bold letters with an amazing picture to accompany it, was an incredible Obama-biased article. I closed my laptop in disgust.
Campaigning and Financing
Fuck. Where do I begin? Obama's expenditures on this election were outrageous. I cannot believe that no one stood up and said something while, in the middle of the largest economic crisis of our time, the man spent ludicrous amounts of money to fuel his campaign. What the hell? Seriously, does no one else see a problem with this? And where was the money coming from? More than once, he got caught for accepting money from foreigns in the Middle East, breaking the law. People cheated to give over the limited amount, again breaking the law. I do not understand how this gets overlooked.
Race and Gender
The most upsetting thing to me this election is the fact that the policies didn't count for shit this year. Qualifications didn't matter. This whole election was based on who the candidates were, not what they stood for. Tonight, every person of color that was interviewed on a news site was asked something along the lines of "How does this historic night make you feel?"
The response was always the same: "I'm just so glad to have a black man in office."
How many people voted for Barack just because he is black (sort of)? We'll never know, but I suspect that it's a much higher number than most people are willing to admit.
And McCain was forced to play against the race card in a drastic fashion, choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. Never once has there been a worse decision. Palin alienated so many moderate voters that it very well may have been the move that cost McCain the election. She is not very intelligent, doesn't have a great record, is too conservative for most of the country, and was just a bad choice. I understand choosing a woman, he needed to fight the race card, but I think it was a bad decision that made him look a bit desperate. However, she was far, far too conservative.
Many say he was appeasing the far right, but I ask why? The far right is not going to vote democrat. Never. Did he think they'd swing to Obama out of spite? Hardly. It's frustrating.
[/rant]
There's more I could say, but my third beer beckons.
Hey, I'm mourning the fall of capitalism at the hands of affirmative action, give me a break. =P
As one of my friends said, so aptly, " Nah dude, I like never being able to ascend in society."
~ Nick
Watching in disregard, You live a nice life
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