Some more excerpted info from Wikipedia ( Read more... )

A bit of a milestone happened in my journal August 19, 1986... where for the first time, I decided to cut out and tape into my journal a news article.  This would become more commonplace, and nowadays I still do this sort of thing...  so it's often more like a scrapbook of things I find interesting than an actual journal that I write in ( Read more... )

Another round of primaries have just happened....  big states like Florida, Illinois and Ohio.  Who won what ( Read more... )

Unexpectedly (to me), Rick Santorum has won three states in the Republican primaries last night. Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri. He also was declared the winner in Iowa after initially being named a very close runner-up to Mitt Romney.

Romney won in New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada. Gingrich won South Carolina. Ron Paul hasn't won any but ( Read more... )

I'm a bit down that Obama didn't do better.  He did OK, but Clinton came out ahead in the big states like New York and California...  I would've liked him to have won one of those.  The delegates are awarded proportionally in most places, tho, instead of winner take all... so they both came out about even at the end of the night.  Bummed that Obama ( Read more... )

I used to have some old journal entries and other info on a website which is now defunct, so I wanted to now save it here... it's about the Democrats in 1987 and 1988...  bear with me, it's not all that interesting...

Primary Season

Michael Dukakis became the Democratic frontrunner with the fall of Gary Hart.  He would go on to win the nomination ( Read more... )

From Time.com:


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Some Quotes of the Day from Time.com...

"We want a better standard for living creatures. It's as simple as that."

- Chef WOLFGANG PUCK
on his decision to ban foie gras from his 100-plus restaurants

"This whole business of homeland security is a farce. These people are no threat whatsoever to the larger society."

- JOEL HARTMAN
of the University of ( Read more... )