Sam Nunn, Voting Rights, Nixon, More Lutherans

Ready for a post that has very neat parallels to yesterday's?

• I'm still working on the first chunk of my thesis draft. Have to turn it in at 4pm. It's coming along well, though, and I've got enough done now to not look like an idiot.
  
  
• Despite having to do that today, went to see FROST/NIXON at the Kennedy Center last night (since I had already bought my ticket before this deadline was set.) It was great, and seeing it a few blocks from the White House and right next door to Watergate was a really cool experience. Lots of parallels to the current administration as well. Definitely recommend you hit it up.
  
  
• Again I have a post up over at TNG. This one is about Sam Nunn getting selected to head Obama's transition of the Dept. of Defense - a troubling sign as Nunn was the architect of the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
  
  
• Also again (see what I meant about this being like yesterday?), I am in my home town / region newspaper, The Day of Connecticut, again today. This is a piece about my efforts on the constitutional amendment that just got passed which allows 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections if they will be 18 in time for the general election. The piece makes me look like I'm taking a lot of the credit, but that's because - bizarrely - none of my partners in crime got back to the reporter to be interviewed. Back in our high school days, we would all be fighting for media attention for our projects (a fight that I'd usually win, as I can drop sound bites like a pro.) Oh well. It was nice to know that it got picked up by the local media, at least, as this should be good inspiration for other young people to get invovled - which was the purpose not only of the content of the ammendment, but of the act of pursuing it, as well.

Still not sure how I pulled off that thesis work. There really must be a god, because there's no way I'm bullshitting this on my own.