November 05, 2008
Best birthday ever?
With the exception of a couple of California Proposition absurdities (Props 8 & 9), the election results gave me one of the best birthdays ever. Yay Obama! (It is all about me, right?)
Having my parents here for the day was great too :-).
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Election profundities
On the WNCT television website, an article on the still-unconfirmed presidential result in North Carolina, includes the following quotation:
Johnnie McLean with the State Board of Elections says, “I believe that the reason that it is that close is that the state was pretty equally divided.”
Uh...makes sense to me!
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October 07, 2008
David Brooks had it right tonight
David Brooks had it right in the post-debate commentary tonight on PBS: these debates basically let both candidate play the "cdroms in their heads." They have been utterly useless exercises in pseudo-democracy.
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May 31, 2008
Citizenry to Scott McClellan: Go to hell
For maybe the only time in my life (unless we have similar taste in ice cream or something), I agree with Karl Rove: Scott McClellan should have spoken up before about his "qualms." One more confirmation of what everybody of any conscience and consciousness knew at the time is just not all that helpful. Let's see, help to save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives from a murderous, lying administration or wait for the carnage and the book deal? Screw you!
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May 07, 2008
Obama versus anti-intellectual pandering...
...from Hillary, not McCain so much, at least not yet. I'm no great fan of Obama, but Hillary and Bill are making me so angry. All the stupid lapel-pin and Minister Wright crap, of course, but also the pandering to the lowest denominator à la "W" that we've seen in response to Obama's completely reasonable theory about "guns and religion" as a bitter response to worsening economic position and then her attacks on economists and their support for Obama's position against the Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday idea. I have this feeling that smart people wouldn't be so routinely vilified in an Obama administration as they have been in the eight-year Bush nightmare, or possibly as in a possible populist Clinton one.
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May 01, 2007
Let me crack this joke before Jay Leno does
According to Reuters:
A senior State Department official in charge of foreign aid who had used an escort service owned by a woman charged with running a prostitution operation abruptly resigned on Friday, ABC News reported.Randall Tobias, a deputy secretary of state and the first head of U.S. foreign assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "that he must step down" for personal reasons, the State Department said in an announcement.
The department's announcement did not elaborate.
But ABC News reported that Tobias, whose resignation was effective immediately, said he had called an escort service several times "to have gals come over the condo to give me a massage."
The escort service, Pamela Martin and Associates, is owned by Jeane Palfrey, who has been called the "D.C. Madam," and faces federal charges of running a prostitution operation in the Washington area from 1993 through August 2006.
Tobias, 65, who is married, said there had been no sex, and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages, ABC reported. His mobile telephone number was among the thousands in Palfrey's records, which she gave to ABC News, the network said.
So, yes, he got the massages but he didn't inhale.
{cymbal crash}
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June 03, 2006
Dems in California
Today's L. A. Times has Phil Angelides and Steve Westly running neck-and-neck with 26% of Democrats undecided in the Democratic primary for Governor. I'm not undecided: I'm not voting for either of these idiots. What a pathetic showing for the Democrats. I'm going to skip the gubernatorial choice in the Tueday primary and the general election in the fall. I almost never vote "none of the above," but that's the case this year. Depressing.
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