Confused about how to vote for your Presidential preference in Washington State? Wonder no longer — if you're a Democrat, we've got the deets on the who-what-when-where. And even the why.

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Voting NO on BOTH is like taking a money-loaded gun out of the hands of politicians who are behaving like children.

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Only for the headstrong?

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And anyone with any sense of romance in them will tell you, the last thing we want in our mysteries is a real human being. Kind of like the day I realized that I knew who the Residents are.

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I find it hard to believe that the Virginia State Legislature would revoke funding to one of its public universities because of a column in which a student gives sex advice to other students.

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Microsoft, a long-time advocate for gay rights {pun not intended, but still funny} and anticipated supporter of the bill, reversed it's long-standing stance on anti-discrimination based on sexuality, and instead proclaimed themselves "neutral" on this bill.

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The article addresses the hypocrisy of our cursed Republican leaders du jour, who supposedly advocate for small government and the so-called "sanctity of marriage," but who have trounced Congress into the marriage of Terri and Michael Schiavo to appease their Christian Conservative voterbase.

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My new husband (omg husband!) and I lounged in the sun, and downed frothy pina coladas + shots of tequila, all the while purposefully avoiding newspapers, televisions, and the Internet news sites.

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While I wasn't in at the ground level of Dean activism, I did caucus for him in Washington state. I completely admire the way he inspired hope, organized the masses, and challenged both the Republican opposition as well as John Kerry's campaign to take on important issues.

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Since my weekly MFA column falls on the day after the first so-called free election in Iraq in 50 years, I felt the need to address the subject. But what to say about it?

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