Look Ma, no cord! With the help of a downloaded patch, our wireless internet connection now works, and I'm blogging from bed. Sweet!

We tried a new Mexican restaurant tonight, Los Amates in Fitzroy, as part of the monthly Dems Abroad meeting. It was just okay. We think the problem may be getting the necessary ingredients imported into a country with very tight agricultural import restrictions. Poblano peppers just do not exist here.

I really don't understand how Bush is still doing so well in the polls. It seems so obvious to anyone paying attention, Democrats and Republicans alike, that this man is the worst president our country has ever seen. It's mystifying to me. Are that many Americans really that stupid? I just keep hoping that on November 2 America proves the pollers wrong and elects Kerry in a landslide victory.
Oh, and if you haven't seen the video from Jon Stewart on Crossfire you owe it to yourself to check it out. Jon Stewart's on my hero list this week.

Fight the liberals! On another blog I commented that for the next election a foundation should be started to collect money from conservatives in the US to "help fight the Liberals in Australia!" (the Liberal party here actually being the conservatives). So he took the idea and ran with it. Too funny.

Atlanta, 1996. The Olympics are in town. At a neighborhood restaurant I end up dining at the next table over from Pierre Salinger. This is a year before his ignominious exit from ABC news.

I remember thinking, wow, those are some eyebrows.

I mention it only because I only rarely have brushes with greatness and now it seems he has died.