yes we can

ditriech: should i bring tang? 14:40
zero dutch: No 14:40
ditriech: buzzkill. 14:50
zero dutch: Weirdo 14:51

ditriech:  Also, I'm about to get a Growler of beer. Stay tuned   14:27
zerodutch: And I'm stuck at my boss's place working. I hate you. 14:29
ditriech: I just finished a Growler in 20 minutes. Now a rhino hero 15:22
zerodutch: Hate hate hate 15:23 

Ok. So.

ksg just informed me that the wonderful website "facebook.com" is having a thing.

Wait, let me mostly explain that. They have a section in which you can beta test something for facebook.  Fuck if i know what it is. But, you have both an interesting question and answer to that question facebook might consider you! 

Or steal your info! Whatever!

Anyhoo, the link is here. And the contest is this: you the reader (writer) of cofabg will write a question and we the writers (readers) will answer it in our very own facebook beta test thing. You can either post a comment here, email to cofabg@gmail.com or you know im us. If you know our screennames. Which, i'm sure you do. Because the only people that read cofabg _also_ write for cofabg.

So let's go!

Yeah so apparently this happened...any suspects?

After Obama and his team ran a campaign that made Swiss Clockwork look like a '78 Pinto and made the U.S. Marine Corps. look like a bunch of undisciplined hooligans, everybody expected pretty much the same from the transition. And then came Richardson and his pay to play. HRC and Bubba's international influence-peddling. Holder's involvement with the ridiculous pardons of Marc Rich and FALN. And the icing on the cake: Treasury Secretary-designee Tim Geithner's missing back-taxes, which is about as perfect a metaphor for Wall Street as I can imagine. My coworker commented that his vetting process must be seriously FUBAR, and I agreed.

But then I thought this morning as I was dodging the conspicuously armed cops and bomb-sniffing dogs on the metro (the next five days are going to be amazing here in the nation's capitol) that there's no way they could consistently screw up like this; that they could hit every note during the campaign and then fumble the political ball so badly once they won the election. With all the talk of Obama creating a pragmatic, competent, effective administration, maybe they didn't mess up - maybe they just don't care about the political game. Who cares about the Marc Rich pardon - maybe Holder is the best person for Attorney General, politics be damned.

At least that's what I'm praying: that his selections are pragmatic and post- (or maybe supra-) partisan, more about governing well than scoring political points. Because if they aren't, and his fuck-ups really are fuck-ups, then I'm afraid we're stuck with another president whose brilliant campaigning won't lead to brilliant governing.

First, read this. Then read this: The impulse behind the article seems admirable. Two people who worked for Obama's campaign are trying to dispel the notion that Appalachians uniformly opposed Barack Obama. But, they are writing about their time spent in "southeast Ohio." Obama's campaign dogged it in West Virginia and Kentucky. I'm not hurt. Obviously, Obama and his staffers know how to run an effective campaign and win an election.

Yeah, I know that pretty much every site ever is showing pictures of election night, but we had to have a post that sends the Barry Banner (as its being known around the cofabg offices^sd1) out in style.

Actual thoughts and mental reactions coming probably as a vamp chron, provided I shoot my regular and don't sleep before 0300.

Also, it gives me an excuse to post this song

More pictures after the jump

I have no words right now. Maybe later.

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