Yes! There is a new layout. Parts need bettering, but overall I am pleased. Please let me know what you think. Keep in mind that I am not a web designer under the best conditions, let alone when my editor has mysteriously decided to be available only in German. You think you know a language, at least can get by, but German jargon is a whole new language!

As long as I'm updating, make sure to check out the electric sheep screen saver, which I dled for Argy's computer and is simply mesmerizing. Frequently when I walk in there now I see him sitting in his chair, back on his haunches, stroking his guinea pig and staring at the screen. We share a knowing look and then I too commune with the computer.
5:20 PM

Okay. I'm over my malaise. Yes much of America would not recognise the Decency Monkey if he came and smacked them upside the head, but we knew this. The world has profoundly improved since 1983, when I was not alive, and it is on the up and up, because I am.

Samia linked me to A Softer World, which is the best webcomic, much better than Penny Arcade or Diesel Sweeties or even, and these words I never did think would pass my lips, better than Ozy and Millie.

I went to a Celtic festival today. They did not have a "This I'll Defend" shirt, or even a MacFarlane clan booth. My father proved himself a traitor by refusing to claim our birthright and take over one of the lesser clan's booths. For a moment I was sure he was going to prove himself a Knox when he bought a sword, but he disappointed me.

Culinarily Austin disappointed my parents, I think. First their Scotch Eggs were of low-quality (yes, I too was surprised that one could grade these things, it seems to me too something like saying "low-quality elephant feces", but there you are). Then we went to Threadgill's, and my mother got the chicken-fried steak, and my father got the chicken-fried steak, and my roommate got the chicken-fried steak, and I got the vegetable plate. Needless to say everybody present turned their back on me, and I felt like Worf in "Sins of the Father".

However I was vindicated when the chicken steak was stringy, while my vegetables were marvelous. In their jealousy they all struck out at my miswak habits (More info here, for teeth that rock always use miswak. Allah Akbar).

Samia has been gone this past day and when she returns I shall hold her and dance her!
3:08 AM

1. The more boring and empty your own life, the more you care about managing the affairs of others
2. Every chance Americans got to vote for a nanny state, they did, from banning gay marriage to banning pot to electing George W Bush to be their president

CONCLUSION: Americans lead boring, empty lives
(Supporting evidence: American tv and radio)

The election of Mr Bush is depressing enough, but in so much as voting is a guide to culture it is clear that voters are becoming more and more reactionary. Don't use the state as a homogenizer, people. If you don't like pot, don't smoke it, if you don't like abortions, don't get one. But for God's sake, don't force other people to be like you.

The same goes for economic affairs, where people become steadily less self-determined. Voters were pro-big-business and anti-union. Feudalism.

In international relations, voters supported a madman who lied to them to start a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, increased global terrorism, and been woefully mismanaged (by above madman).

!!

Every Bush voter I've talked to has been uneducated and done it for a single issue, whether it be abortion (which went steadily down under Clinton and his risen steadily under Bush), gay marriage (Bush and Kerry have near-identical positions on this, both anti-marriage and pro-civil-union), or the war (again, same position).

If we have the right of free association I want to stop being united to this bunch of kibbitzers.
2:40 AM