The Socialist - Coming to a Senate Near You

Here's an interesting article in CNN about a socialist politician without party backing who is leading in the polls in Vermont. While the prospects of someone with a socialist mindset does not exactly excite me, what does excite me is the fact that someone who is not a member of the stagnant, complacent, and hulking Republican or Democrat party is a serious contender for a seat in the Senate. The simple fact that the man declined the Democratic nomination for the Senate race, instead choosing to run as an independant speaks volumes to me - it means we might actually get a free thinker in the Senate... someone who doesn't tow the party line and owes allegiance to no one but the state he represents.

Precisely as I expected....

It did not take very long for me to reach a point where I lost motiviation to write about things on a frequent basis. I think I lasted a good month before I ran out of literary steam. Nonetheless, I'm back for another quick episode - more than likely to be followed up by one in two weeks :)

Right now I am typing this message from a Gentoo live CD environment which I am using to re-install Gentoo. During an Ubuntu update, my X.org windows systems got hosed for the second time in a month due to some update with nvidia drivers that the Synaptic update system forces on me. Ubuntu, for all of its niceness and user-friendliness, really makes it a pain in the ass to get under the hood and configure some things. Thus I couldn't figure out how to make apt or synaptic keep from installing nvidia upgrades. And during an upgrade which I didn't realize an nvidia driver update or nvidia module update was occuring, I blindly accepted the upgrades and upon the next boot.. BAM!... no more window system for my Ubuntu Linux install. Besides, I was to the point where I was getting so spoiled by a fancy GUI for everything that I was becoming ignorant with the command line and all of the CLI utilities. So I think this will be a good change again.

In other news, Beck came out with a new CD. It rocks the boat immensely. Not a single bad song on the CD. The jewel case cover itself is blank, but the CD comes with oodles of stickers in which you can create your own cover. It is a pretty nice gesture from the musician to give the listeners some liberty in and artistic rights in something they purchased. Did I mention the music f'n rocks too?

Anyway, back to my Gentoo install. Cya in a couple more weeks (hehe.)