jane q. public

One aunt – not the previously referenced one – is undecided.  I got the email that you see below from her today.  Can I take that as promising?

Obama, Hillary, Biden and Michelle after they found out who McCain's running mate was going to be... They are on their way to the White House!

Another one from my aunt:

I saw these EcoHangers on CNN today – I think this is a great idea all around.  Environmentally, they’re a lot better than wire hangers and easily recyclable, plus the company that makes them will provide them free to dry cleaners since they make their money from the ads on the hangers.

Besides, as a McCain/Palin White House looks less and less plausible, are we really going to have a need for wire hangers?

h/t @FakeSarahPalin

Coming from another email from my like-minded aunt:

Amazing.  Flyers fans have now ingratiated themselves to me.  I’m sure a lot has been/will be said about the fans not being classy, but let’s face it – you’d boo, too.

Apparently there was a sign at the Preds game last night that said “I can see Radulov from my house” with a caricature of Palin – it was in between periods, so I missed it, but I’m trying to track down a picture.

Anyway, here’s the video (check out the thumbs-down and Obama/Biden sign in the background). Love it!

See also: Wonkette

Edited to add: I’ve gotta give Palin props for the cute coat, though.  Let it never be said that I haven’t said something nice about the woman.

I was prepared to come out and make some mostly personal attacks on my family here after that little issue of the political donor list that showed up in The City Paper yesterday, but I’m not even going there.

I came home to an all-out “reply all” war between my entire family in my inbox tonight.  It got to the point where I wasn’t even going to argue any points or take any sides (for the record, I’ve got mom’s back on this one).  It was absolutely ridiculous.

The emails mixed political disagreement with personal hurt feelings and just a lot of all around meanness, and had started over a forwarded email [If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're  "exotic, different." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American  story...] and devolved from there.  By the end of it all, I couldn’t see it through political goggles, though.

I’m nearing my 27th birthday, but I still feel like a kid.  I don’t know if I’ll ever feel like an adult.  Which is why it was extra weird for me to have to basically tell “the grownups” to settle down.  When I got caught up on their battle, I finally had to enter the “reply all” fray with this missive:

I’ll keep to myself my opinions (since I pretty much want to punch each one of you in the face at one point or another), but here’s my take on this situation: everyone shut the fuck up. Seriously, it sucks to come home and spend 30 minutes sifting through a bunch of grown ass people bickering.  Y’all all need a nap.

I guess I’m the adult now.