Kerry Lost Because of Me (Fall 2004)
Kerry Lost Because of Me (Fall 2004)
I didn’t do enough.
Mea Culpa.
I taught Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" to my E28A class instead of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."
Mea Culpa.
I hung up on Ted Kennedy's automated phone call.
Mea Culpa.
I only signed my name on the Derrida memorial website twice.
Mea Culpa.
On my absentee ballot, I included reasons for why I voted the way I did, as well as several discussion questions. Maybe that rubbed someone the wrong way.
Mea Culpa.
I forgot to knock on wood after saying that the Red Sox beating the Yankees boded well for Kerry.
Mea Culpa.
I wrote my 220A midterm on Kant instead of Edward Said.
Mea Culpa.
I laughed more loudly at Bill Maher's joke that Kerry looked like a tree from the Wizard of Oz than I did at his joke that Bush looked like Curious George.
Mea Culpa.
I never send that email to Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him not to campaign in Ohio.
Mea Culpa.
I didn't finish all the secondary reading for my Dickens class.
Mea Culpa.
I'm in a graduate school program studying literature.
Mea Culpa.
Several times last year it was more convenient for me to shop at Ralph's than
Trader Joe's.
Mea Culpa.
I missed four episodes of the Daily Show's election coverage.
Mea Culpa.
I haven't washed my car in so long that my Kerry bumper sticker ("Fermez la Bush") has been illegible since September.
Mea Culpa.
While drunk I once admitted that it might not be THAT bad if Bush were to win.
Mea Culpa.
My relatives in Ohio weren't convinced by my threat to secede from the family if they didn't vote for Kerry.
Mea Culpa.
I secretly like hegemony.
Mea Culpa.
Maybe all the naked dancing at the polls that day hurt Kerry more than it helped.
Mea Culpa.
I voted for Nader again. It wasn’t even for Ralph Nader, it was for this guy named Bob Nader who was running for a schoolboard position in Tustin.
Mea Culpa.
In the end, I could no longer deny the obvious: Donald Rumsfeld is a very sexy man.
Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa.
