I don’t know what it is about this recent sketch from Saturday Night Live, but I smile every time I watch it. It’s so stupid it’s funny.

Matthew Shepard died 10 years ago today.

I had only been out of the closet for a couple of months when he died, and his death affected me deeply. Here’s what I wrote at the time for a UVa student newspaper, The Declaration.

There were 600 days until the end of the Bush presidency, then 500 days, then 400, then 300, then 200.

Finally, as of today, there are only 100 days until Bush leaves office! Only 2400 hours or so to go.

They can’t pass soon enough.