All posts by Sean Shannon

Hi. I’m still here, although I lost power from about 4:15 to 4:55. Given the propensity for brownouts in the next couple of days, I may not be online that much, but then again that’s to be expected. So who are we going to blame for this, hmm? Liberals? Canada? Liberal Canadians?

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You know, a few weeks ago I asked if I could sue Ann Coulter for calling me a traitor. Then Fox News turns around and sues Al Franken for using “fair and balanced” in the subtitle of his upcoming book (which promptly shot up to number one in Amazon.com preorders). I leave it as an exercise to the reader to connect the dots. By the way, since I have some small experience in these matters, Franken’s lawyers are going to have to be careful how…

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Gallup Poll Analyses – Schwarzenegger Leads California Gubernatorial Race Scroll down a bit to look at the current standings. That’s right, Arianna Huffington is currently doing worse than Larry fucking Flynt. You know, I used to have a lot of respect for Californians …

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So I’m reading up on treatment of back pain, and all the places I go seem to suggest that doing yoga is a good way to relieve back pain. But what if you got that back pain doing yoga, hmm? Sheesh. Two weeks from fall semester now. Of course I’m still here on campus trying to take care of some Spectrum business (the Website is finally back up, by the way), but then again I knew I’d have a lot of work to do when…

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New on Backwash.com: “Life on Both Sides of the Gender Divide”. I know I haven’t talked too much about being a transsexual since I “came out” here nine months ago, but with some of the stuff that’s been going on in my life, I thought a little examination of gender-role typing and how it’s impacted my life recently might be interesting. Yes, I’m being self-absorbed and whiny again, but I think I’ve got a few nuggets of wisdom buried in there somewhere. I think.

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