Andrew Sullivan endorses John Kerry. In his own words, “[t]he endorsement I once never thought I’d write.”

And is it surprising? I put like 30k miles on my car a year, and I’m not easy on it. I don’t care so much if the car is banged and scratched up as much as I care that it runs well and is in good shape.

Over the past week, I had some acceleration issues. Heading up York Road into Loveton (quite hilly) I’d have to drop into 3rd gear and floor it just to maintain a 30mph cruising speed. It used to be I could hit that road in 5th gear and take it up 60mph to the top!

As silly as it sounds, I thought that the new tires might have been the problem - they have a bit more traction to ‘em than the sports tires I usually get. I took the vehicle into Jiffy Lube yesterday, and got quite a bit of fluids and hoses swaped and fixed and all that good stuff. When the guy pulled my car around front, he told me the problem might’ve been a plate in the transmission. Oy, I thought.

I took the car in to the shop today - and, yep, the clutch. Gone. Well, not yet, but certainly on the way to going, going, gone! Joy, huh? The repair estimate was also steep - what would Tony Soprano call it? A box of zuccini? $1025. Ouch. Ouch. OUCH!

This really sucks because this month I paid off a credit card and had a second card in the line of fire to get zapped. Well, that second card isn’t going to be paid off next month anymore.

Debt really sucks. Trying to get out debt sucks a lot harder, though.

Also: I can’t remember if I left my outgoing bills in my car or not. DOH!