Margarita Mama

Don't Hold Your Breath (or Your Heart Might Stop)

Read this at Salon today:

As for himself, Cheney said he would not budge from his oft-stated decision that he will not run for president. "It's firm, final, fixed, irrevocable," the vice president said. "I don't know how else I can say it. If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

Dude, we just wanted to know if you were running. NOBODY has actually offered to vote for you.

Give Peace a Chance

So the kids had a wonderful summer of firsts. We took a 16 day road trip. They went into their first cave at Mammoth Cave National Park, they drove to the top of their first mountain (Hurricane Dennis was passing through so we didn't see anything). You know you're a mid-westerner when you have to drive over 400 fucking miles to get to a bone fide mountain.

They had their first trip to Williamsburg, Washington, D.C. and all kinds of other fun activities. And finally, no better way to end the summer than to take your children to their first peace rally:

Sorry, all we had was the camera phone. It was in downtown Glen Ellyn, over 400 people showed up. Sylvia slept through the entire thing. Rodrigo enjoyed cheering when passing cars honked at us. I was walking around the 4 corners of the demostrations looking for a friend and caught tidbits of all kinds of interesting conversations. Another thing I found interesting was that a large number of older people (like senior citizens) were the ones doing the honking. See, it's not so bad in the suburbs, you just need to hold peace vigils to smoke out the liberals.