meet this week’s little bar trivia champions! yes, my smart friends and i, led by our large-brained friends alex and peter, took home the crown (and the 20 dollar gift certificate). mostly thanks to our knowledge of paintings and southern states. i’d like to think it was also in part due to my team-naming idea — that is, stealing matt’s method of coming up with an offensive pop culture reference to use. and so, ‘the orphaned spears children’ were victorious.

um, super bowl was okay i guess. no stand-out great commercials. i prefer more offense in my super bowl, personally, although i did enjoy the intensity in the fourth quarter. the highlight was probably lawrence’s deep fried snickers bars.

and today i voted in the primary for barack obama and ‘yes’ on all those indian gaming propositions. i mean, i like gambling, who am i to say no to anyone asking for more of it?

more importantly, i hope more people decide to put their trust in what i see as ‘the new guard’ versus falling back on ‘the old guard’ when it comes to the next party candidate. when it comes down to it, a lot of the policies are similar and it’s a matter of nuance that either could still help shape as a prominent member of the senate. but at the end of the day, do we want to take a big step forward and elect a fresh, inspiring new face, or continue the dynastic trend of two families governing the country between them for the bulk of my lifetime? not that it’s the only reason i’m pro-obama, but i do feel strongly that no one immediately related to a president should be eligible for office. it just smacks of washington-insider power-mongering. and i’m sorry, but the same goes for spouses. if there’s going to be a first woman president, doesn’t it cheapen it a little that she had to be the wife of a president that served before her?

i’m a little bummed though; my ‘i voted!’ sticker fell off while i was driving to work from the polling place this morning and fell beneath the seat of my car. now no one knows how much i care about democracy!