A
map of the US by county by dominant ancestry. Notice the wide spread of German-American plurality counties.
Experiencing Sept 11 2001
as experiencing history. A photo from
the next morning.
The minority Tory Government in Canada
is doing quite well in the polls.
The new (37-year old) Governor of Louisiana
was determined that there would be no Katrina repeats.
An amusing defence of tabloid media from within tabloid media.
Being crushed to find that the Obamas’ send their children to an expensive private school and the Palins’ to a local government one.
Obama is a much-travelled man:
Obama’s youthful Pakistan connections.
A photographer takes a deliberately unflattering set of pictures of McCain, the Atlantic Monthly uses on one its cover
and then gets embarrassed when the photographer brags on her blog about what she had done. About
the behaviour of the photographer.
We had Obamamania, now we have
Palinmania. About
Gov. Palin and the media. The
Palin rumour site is having trouble keeping up. How
one particular smear worked. Smearing
seems to have been the plan.
A
textbook piece of insular, parochial condescension, getting
the treatment it deserves. Getting
the Bush Doctrine wrong. Exploring
the Palin phenomenon: Conservatives, he said, prove quite adept at thinking like liberals, but liberals are consistently incapable of understanding the conservative point of view. “Liberals feel contempt for the conservative moral view, and that is very, very angering. Republicans are good at exploiting that anger,” he told me in a phone interview.
Perhaps that’s why the conservatives can so successfully get under liberals’ skin. And why liberals need to start working harder at breaking through the empathy barrier. Then there is
dreaming about Gov. Palin. Some people take their politics waaayyy too seriously.
About
the gap between Obama-the-speechmaker and Obama-the-politician. Obama
may have embellished his resume a bit. Report that Obama
attempted to delay agreement on withdrawing US troops from Iraq. [Or
perhaps not.] It is perhaps not classy
to attack a guy whose war injuries
prevent him from using a keyboard (or comb his hair, or tie his shoes) for being unable to send an email.