Interesting article on politics and religion, American voters increasingly split along religious lines.

I go to church once a week sometimes more, prayer is an important part of my life, and I vote democrat. The majority of the people who go to my church vote democrat as well although we do have a vocal progressive minority, but then again we are a church in San Francisco.

While the people in San Francisco are fighting over how "really democrat and progrssive" are you, Strong Green challenge in San Francisco worries Democrats, The NY Times is reporting today that Shifts in States May Give Bush Electoral Edge.

As much as I so detest Tucker Carlson, the man did make a good point on the Chris Matthews Show when he said that if all Howard Dean has to on is his opposition to the Iraq War with no way graceful, diplomatic, pragmatic exit strategy for Iraq which makes sure that the country doesn't turn into another Afghanistan, then the democrats are sunk for 2004 presidential election.

With so many high profile GOP wins, like Bush getting his medicare bill to pass the congress and the senate and Arnie fulfilling on his two campaign promises of repealing the vehicle license fee hike and giving illegal aliens driver's licenses, what is the democrat strategy to take back the white house, the congress, the senate and the states?

Honestly, it makes me think that the democrats and the greens like that the repuplicans control the white house, the congress, the senate, and most of the governorships and state legislative bodies including the oh so left state of the Cali Republic, because if the GOP wasn't in control, what the hell would there be to protest about?

The Greens are supposed to be protesting Al Gore today, the champion of the environmental movement which I thought the Greens were supposed to represent, so maybe there's your answer. If we can't protest the opposition, we'll protest against the people who think like us. There's a really bright idea for you.

I heard Bill Press say that only in San Francisco would there people be fighting over Al Gore.

Protests are good for something. If it weren't for protests, where would progressive guys pick up chicks and get their voices in the media?

Here's something interesting.

From the CDC website, INFLUENZA SUMMARY UPDATE - Week ending November 22, 2003-Week 47

The flu is all over the world with children dying from the flu in Colorado, England and Scotland.

So there I was traipsing around downtown San Francisco the day after Thanksiving wearing a gray and white striped knee length dress, creme white tights and black Mary Jane flats, when I hear a group of tourist chicks say in back of me "look there's a miniskirt".

For whatever reason, their remark made me very self conscious. My self consciousness about my mode of dress was made even worse when I started watching the TLC show "What Not to Wear", and they started ranting about women wearing white tights and what a fashion faux pas it was.

So naturally like any good researcher, I typed "how to wear opaque white tights" into google and found all these web pages saying the "mod" look is in, and that short miniskirts and opaque tights with mary jane flats were the outfit du jour for anyone wanting to achieve the "mod" look.

Minis on the Move

The Mini is here to Stay

The Mod Squad

I love wearing white tights. It reminds me of being a little girl, and it reminds me of mod girls from the 60's. Okay, so what if they make my looks pasty white and like white fat logs, I like wearing white tights.

Tights are the perfect thing with a short skirt or a short dress. Somehow the dress doesn't seem so short if you're wearing opaque tights, because it's not like you're showing any skin.

I never wear skin coloured hose or tights. The few times I've worn them with a short skirt, I received too many annoying looks, comments and wolf whistles. What a bother! Better to wear ugly white tights than to have some icky man oggle your legs in public.

And I do love wearing a miniskirt, and god only knows you can never have enough black miniskirts in your closet. But as a gesture to the folks at "What not to Wear", I'm going to exchange the two pairs of new white tights I bought last week with a pair of grey and navy ones. I need gray ones to go with the gray and white striped minidress, and I need navy ones to go with the two knee length navy and blue dresses I just ordered.