Iowa at last

Made it! More later, if I have time.

Today’s Funny Cat Video (it’s a short one).

Thanks and Blogger Triumphalism

I had my going away party on Sunday and a good amount of people showed up. It was fun to kick back and relax with everyone. I’d like to thank everyone who came to my little going away party. It was fun even if it had to end a little too early and I appreciate everyone who came. I feel more ready than ever to head out and of course let me profess generic positive romantic feelings out there to the appropriate people. Three more days and I’ll be all ready to go. Still a scary thought but a good one. More thoughts on that later. But for now a bit of a political post follows

Now as some of you know, I am a bit of a blogger triumphalist. I cheer when fact checking reveals the idiocy of reports and editors, the utter capitulation of newspapers to extremist voices and the he-said, she said version of the news where the word “lie” can not ever ever appear. I swear to God, if one day Bush up and announced the Earth Is Flat the headlines would read “Shape of Earth, Views Differ.” Liberal media, I don’t fucking think so. Of course I also recognize the value of the meida after all, if they didn’t screw up what would we have to talk about in the blogosphere? More honestly, a lot of the commentary stems from news stories. No traditional media = far less fodder for bloggers.

Anyhow, my blogger triumphalist side was bolstered today and for an amusing and odd reason. Did you know that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on the internet? The President of Iran who is depending on who you talk to is either:

1. plotting our destruction this moment with nukes
2. desperately trying to shore up his own domestric political situation because even with oil at $3,529,035,025 a barrel (or whatever) Iran’s economy is sucking
3.fending off moderate challenges from Supereme Ayatollah Khamenei
4)BLOGGING

Yes, he now has a personal blog. It’s here. Click on the little American flag with the bizarre red square in it to read the english version. It appears to be a truncated version of his opening 2300 word mini-manifesto.

As much as I hate to admit it, hat tip to Andrew Sullivan and more cordially to Hussein Derakhshan.

UPDATE: Lindsey informs me privately that if you click on the continue button on Ahmadinejad’s blog you can see the entire entry. I should have seen that. Oh well, Hussein missed it too.

Random Cat Link of the day: Herdin’ Cats

I am Destiny

Welcome to my new blog, Iowa Law Guy. Those of you who know me know that I’m neither from Iowa or a lawyer… at least not yet. That’s why I’m starting this blog. In a very short time I will be loading up the car with the last of my stuff and putting in an 8-hour drive south along some of the flatest land in this country, one sprouting corn and wind farms until I get to Des Moines Iowa. Once there, I’ll be spending a lot of money setting up utilities, internet access and making sure the pilot light doesn’t go off on my stove. Oh yeah, I’ll also be attending Drake University Law School. Now you know the reason I named the blog Iowa Law Guy.

So what’s the big deal? Well I’m leaving people behind, even a few I care about. This blog is a way to keep in touch with them and act as a little chronicle for my time there. I’m sure most of it will be late nights, caffeine pills and stress but I’ll be there for the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 so who knows what I might get up to. That’s another thing–one of the major things I discuss online is politics. So this might blog might get some of that up to. Feel free to comment on that when it comes up too. Oh yeah, also a pretty big baseball fan so I’ll be doing some “Base-Blogging” (as Amy Sullivan says) from time to time, or at least as long as the Twins are in the Wild Card chase.

More importantly, I control my own destiny. No debt, opportunity, all that stuff. I’ll stand or fall depending on my own actions–and that’s something I know most people don’t get to do very often. So let’s get started.

PS: Image courtesy of US Department of Energy