November 7, 2008 – 03:13 pm
From Salon’s Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic: “As I see it, to date there have been three American republics, each lasting 72 years (give or take a few years). The First Republic of the United States, assembled following the American Revolution, lasted from 1788 to 1860. The Second Republic, assembled following the [...]
November 7, 2008 – 12:02 pm
From NY Times’s Keep Your Euphoria to Yourself, Soldier: “In a stroke of self-satire, Pentagon officials tried to block Stars and Stripes — the military’s respected independent newspaper — from covering the troops’ plain and honest reactions to the election night news about their new commander in chief. The Department of Defense once again made [...]
November 5, 2008 – 05:28 pm
From the Onion’s Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress: “Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being fucked. Another contributing factor to Obama’s victory, political experts said, may have been the growing [...]
November 5, 2008 – 02:46 pm
From Le Monde’s Sorry we can’t, par Robert Solé: “Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: ‘Yes we can.’ While it is impossible to joke with genocide or disaster, it is equally impossible to joke with an event that makes you weep [...]
November 5, 2008 – 12:52 pm
From Glenn Greenwald’s Three huge, immediate reasons to be happy about last night: “John Paul Stevens is 88, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 75, David Souter is 68, and all are expected to leave the Supreme Court in the next four years.”
November 5, 2008 – 12:37 pm
From the AP’s Voter turnout best in generations, maybe a century: “It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country’s precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent [...]
November 5, 2008 – 11:10 am
From AlterNet’s The Obama Administration: Who Could Get Picked?: “In recent days an outline of an Obama administration has begun to emerge — both in the rumor mill and in press reports. The campaign itself has specifically and repeatedly denied any efforts as such. But sources confirm that advisers to the Senator are already plotting [...]
November 5, 2008 – 10:52 am
When it comes to gay marriage, I expect it to be banned down south, but et tu California?
November 4, 2008 – 03:00 pm
From Nora Ephron’s Thinking About Bill: “And slowly but surely, I became infatuated with [Bill Kristol]. How could I not? The man could not write his way out of a paper bag. His column was simply awful. Reading it was like watching someone dance on the head of a pin: his need to prove to [...]
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