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Happy Thanksgiving
I’m thankful for the avoidance of what could have been …
… the passing of what we have all been forced to suffer through (gettim Gobbly!) …
… and the hope of what can be.
Have a hopeful holiday.
A Slight Adjustment
One of the things about the experience of covering election night from inside the bubble of a TV studio is that one becomes slightly paranoid that the entire event has been staged for the cameras: a cruel Truman Show kind of experiment, the illusion to be broken only once one leaves the premises and is interrupted by [...]
Pride
After a long, arduous wait, finally, a President I can believe in. Congratulations, Preseident-elect Obama. Congratulations, America. You’ve made the right choice.
Tonight, I love my country more than, I think, I ever have before.
Vote
Off. To your polling places. That is all.
Palin's War
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.
– Christopher Hitchens
From Mr. Hitchens’ article, on slate, “Sarah Palin’s War on Science – The GOP ticket’s appalling contempt for knowledge and learning”
Factually Biased
Facts continue to hold a liberal bias.
– John Gruber, “Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants”
The Race Card
From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But [...]
What if He Loses?
The Obama campaign has been the anti–O.J. trial, a 24-hour ongoing drama about a black man cast not as a problem but, potentially, as the solution
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, “What if he Loses?”
The Gloves
Yes, folks, it, indeed, appears that the gloves are coming off in the waning hours of the 2008 race for President of the United States. These final weeks are a test of character, sort of a national Milgram experiment where we see, when given the chance and the implicit permission to do whatever needs to [...]
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