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Leah

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About Me

I like working newspaper crossword puzzles, avoiding crazy people, trekking around the nation's capital, and paying my bills on time.
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My Interests

reading, politics, cinema, history, psychology, philosophy, gardening, kayaking, hiking, traveling

I'd like to meet:

David Gilmore, Hunter S. Thompson You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM 's MySpace Profile Editor !

Music:

Bob Marley, Radiohead, Mike Love, Ween, Vitamin String Quartet, Blind Melon, Alice in Chains, Medeski Martin & Wood, Outkast, Santana, Pink Floyd

Movies:

The Big Labowski, American Psycho, The Motorcycle Diaries, Animal House, The Royal Tenebaums, Slingblade, Dumb & Dumber, Bottle Rocket, Urban Cowboy, Revenge of the Nerds, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Old School, Napolean Dynamite, Snatch, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Kill Bill Vol. I & II, Best in Show, Sunset Boulevard, Nightmare Before Christmas, All About Eve, There Will Be Blood

Television:

The Office, The Tudors, Law & Order (all of them, preferably in a marathon), The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

I love biographies, anything Dave Sedaris, C.S. Lewis, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Mark Twain, Running with Scissors, Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1776, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Road Less Traveled, 100 Years of Solitude, Anatomy of Motive, Night, The Divine Comedy, The March, In Cold Blood, Life of Pi, and honestly too many to name here.

Heroes:

Susan M. Keith (moms), Jesus, Gandhi, MLK Jr. and all of our service men and women and anyone else who makes sacrifices for the greater good.

My Blog

Financial Markets Bailout

I am sitting here at work watching the vote on the bailout fail.  The market is about the drop precipitously.  People are so pissed off about paying $700 billion in taxpayer money to prevent...
Posted by Leah on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:12:00 PST

Hot Trannie Mess

Look who was on Capitol Hill today...she doesn't look so good but will STILL sweat to the oldies.  Watching Richard Simmons do his thing outside of the Capitol today caused me to double over with...
Posted by Leah on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:46:00 PST

Play Ball

President Bush was booed as he threw the first pitch at the Nationals season opener against the Braves on Sunday here at the new baseball stadium.  Dang.  Don’t get me wrong, I th...
Posted by Leah on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:36:00 PST

Barack the Casbah

I have received a few emails recently regarding Barack Obama and his religious life, so I thought I would seize this opportunity to shed some light on the real deal Holyfield.  Let me start by sa...
Posted by Leah on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:37:00 PST

Ambitious much

I just signed for a 10 mile run today.  April 6th is d-day.  I have a hardcore training schedule.  Can I do it?  Hell yes.  I can and I will.
Posted by Leah on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:05:00 PST

Carpe the Day

Life is good.  I have moved into a new house and have 3 great roommates.  It is a wholly different energy than my first 6 months in DC.  I feel like I have really burst out on the ...
Posted by Leah on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:00 PST

Give 'Em Hell Alabama

Finally, something I feel like blogging about.  I have been watching my boss (and US Representative) Artur Davis question Monica Goodling at a Judiciary Committee hearing today and he made m...
Posted by Leah on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:17:00 PST

Alas, the misery of uncertainty

I haven't heard anything about the D.C. job yet.  It probably won't be until after the first of the year when I hear anything; I know this.  But the uncertainty of what lies ahead in 2007 is...
Posted by Leah on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST

Speak No Evil

This is an interesting way to put gossip into perspective: A nineteenth-century folktale tells about a man who went about town slandering the town's wise man. One day, he went to the wise man's home a...
Posted by Leah on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:38:00 PST

Bless his heart, he ain't too bright

Updated: 10:46 a.m. CT June 15, 2006 WASHINGTON - President Bush, who often teases members of the White House press corps, apologized Wednesday after he poked fun at a reporter for wearing sunglas...
Posted by Leah on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:07:00 PST