In honor of the inauguration and the Hall of Fame announcements coming fairly close together, Joe Posnanski decided to run a poll on the following question: if someone created a Presidents Hall of Fame, who would you vote for (up to five) for the initial induction class. There's some fun stuff in the comments, especially the Madison-Monroe ( Read more... )

This is what VJ Day must have felt like ( Read more... )

Have exercised my civic duty. I was going to try to do it before work, since my polling place is on the way, but the number of cars spilling out from the parking lot onto the street dissuaded me. Knowing that it would be even worse after work, I decided to give it a shot at lunch. There was a line of about fifteen people ahead of me, but then I ( Read more... )

Did my civic duty tonight. I think it's the first time I've ever voted in a presidential primary with the outcome still in doubt. Candidates actually came to Rhode Island to stump for votes. Weird ( Read more... )

I find it deeply satisfying that the reason the Republicans are losing control of the Senate is because George Allen decided to show the world what a condescending prick he is.

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RIP, Ed Bradley, a classy guy if ever there was. I watched him last in him 60 Minutes piece about the Duke lacrosse team, and I remember thinking he didn't look good. ( Read more... )

I have one more reason to hate Bush, et al., tonight. On any other election night, I would've voted to reelect Lincoln Chafee as Senator, given that he seems to agree with me on every single political position I have. The problem is, though, that he's a Republican, and despite the fact that he was one of the few senators that didn't vote for the ( Read more... )

I was provided with a new favorite description by todays budget debate in Congress:

During floor debate on the rule earlier in the evening, Democratic Rep. Marion Berry (Ark.) called Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) a "Howdy-Doody nimrod"

Went to bed early rather than listen to all the blather. When I woke up, the thing that struck me most was the electoral map. My high school history book had the electoral map for every election from John Adams on, and the thing I remember about that is that the electoral vote always seemed oddly scattered. The red states and the blue states were ( Read more... )

Ye Gods! It's even worse than I thought. In addition to the 14 statewide referenda on the ballot, my town has an additional 9 of its own. I was a little apprehensive, because I hadn't seen any of them yet, but after doing a little research, it turns out most of them have to do with amending the town's charter to change the name of the town's " ( Read more... )