I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to listen to Bernie Ward, a radio late night talk show host. He is the best Shrub bashing anti-Iraq war radio commentator on the airwaves, and may be the only one in the country for that matter.

He was so fun to listen to during the 2000 presidential election. It was night after night of total all out Bush family bashathon. Bernie is an unashamed left wing progressive, and will take on anyone who's willing to call into his show. Ward is smart as heck, and he makes mincemeat out of callers who can't logically back up their positions. He's like the snarkiest prosecuting attorney there is, only he's a left wing progressive.

So naturally, I was shocked as hell to hear him endorsing Newsome for mayor of San Francisco and arguing with the Gonzalez suppporters and making them sound like idiots on the radio.

Bernie, the left wing Rush Limbaugh, supporting Newsome, that's weird!

I find it interesting that almost all of the Latino groups in San Francisco, a nationality group that is the most sought after and wooed voting bloc of voters of the last ten years, isn't backing someone of their own nationality in the San Francisco's mayor's race.

I wonder how not having their endorsements will be explained, seeing as how everyone including George Bush wants their precious votes and how nowadays
if you're anti-Latino, you're considered a racist.

Can any politician criticize the Latino Groups without being called a racist?

So I just heard a politician interviewed on the radio, and either it was the worse spin job I'd ever heard in my life or the guy is just nuts and has no qualms about lying his butt off.

I mean, you'd think a smart politician would be at least try to spin himself out of a controversy. No, this one just out and out lied. It's trippy!

I take that back. Actually the worse spin job I'd even read was Rainbow Grocery trying to spin the "israeli products controversy". Boy, was that just bad, bad spin.

Whew! I'm all caught up again for the Day 23 word count of my novel which is about 38,300+ words. I was four days behind counting today, but I made myself get all caught up.

I could write and get ahead, but I'm exhausted. I've been writing off and on all day, and I think I've reached my limit. My brain is all mushy. I'll probably try to get ahead this week and maybe even finish before the deadline on the 30th.

It would be nice to have the weekend off, and not write. Writing every day is tough. You have to take some days off, otherwise it just becomes such a slog! I was alwasy skeptical of the writing 5 days a week method, but you know it's not a bad schedule. If I wrote during the week, I could have the weekends off.

The problem for me is always finding the time to write during the week, so I think at least maybe one weekend day could be a writing day and one day would be off. That sounds like a more reasonable schedule to me. I kind of like writing on the weekends because I get longer blocks of time.