All posts by Sean Shannon

So I’ve got two more weeks of class here (and just one more test to go), and then I get two weeks off. The scariest thing is, my only real plan for my so-called summer vacation is to try to get some of the latest political books from the library to read. I think I’ve now offically gone from having no life to having a life that can only be classified by using negative numbers.

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There’s almost something maddening about how I’ll be studying for a test, I’ll get to the point where I can repeat everything off the top of my head, and yet I still keep studying. Maybe I’m just too much of a perfectionist. Maybe it’s just because I’ve got nothing better to do. Or maybe I’m just obsessive-compulsive like that. Tomorrow it will officially be four weeks until the start of fall semester — my last at UT. I’ve had a lot of grad schools I’ve…

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A small piece of the “wisdom” that’s come forth from my lips recently … “Just because I wish for death doesn’t necessarily mean that I believe in death.” And if you think that message was directed towards you … you’re probably right.

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Republicans urge Wisconsin broadcasters not to air “deliberately false and misleading” commercial about Dubya’s claims in State of the Union Address (Yahoo News). You know, this is beyond total bullshit coming from a party that ran deliberate, provable lies about Hillary Clinton’s proposed health care reform back in the early days of her husband’s administration. (I highly encourage you to read James Carville’s We’re Right, They’re Wrong for details on that, as well as the other subterfuge the GOP used back in the mid-nineties.) The…

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