This has been a loooooong week. Five days and everything. Good thing there’s a long weekend coming up (last one for a while, though, so that sucks). I more or less managed to ignore the GOP convention dog and pony show, though some of it of course leaked out into my brain. Mostly that Paul Ryan is a big fat liar, Mitt Romney’s speech was fairly lame, and Clint Eastwood’s was just plain odd. And I guess they love them some Condi Rice (nary a peanut was cast in her direction, apparently). Not that I saw or listened to any of that. Oh, and I heard something about Rush Limbaugh saying Obama caused hurricane Isaac just to fuck with the Republicans. Too bad he can’t actually do that.

Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, Jeb Bush is starting to look a bit like him, don’t you think? Or maybe more like Karl Rove. Either way, he’s getting a bit porcine looking. And I guess he’s tired of everybody being so mean to his brother (gee, I guess more of this Republican shit leaked into my head than I thought. Icky).

So now Romney has his convention bump, which has put him in the lead, slightly (I read that somewhere, but now I can’t find it). So, good for him. I’m just glad I don’t live in a state that’s up for grabs, because I don’t think I could take two months of attack ads on the teevee. It’s bad enough that the wingnuts are going to be plowing millions of dollars into the campaign of our teabagger darling congresscritter. Good thing I don’t watch commercials (I even had to give up on the lo-cal news in the morning; I just can’t take it anymore).

So, tomorrow is the official start of football season, as Northwestern comes to the Dome to play SU. As usual, I’m prepared for a season filled with high hopes and major disappointment. But for at least another day, we’re still undefeated.