• Watched the Oath of Office and President Obama's speech on the projector in one of our conference rooms. I got a little misty. Great speech, with a good balance of somber and hope. After having sat through a class dissecting JFK's Rice University speech, I couldn't help but notice it was much more simply organized than JFK (and you really have ( Read more... )

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I think everyone else has covered the whole relief/elation/historical aspects of the Presidential election results such that I'd simply be redundant in going in to that. (However, I do want to point out to all the wonks of tv talking about how this has realized MLK's dream: no, when we can elect a black man as President and it's not thought of as ( Read more... )

When I checked the news this morning, I found the headline about the woman who claimed to have been robbed, beaten, and scarred by an assailant who became incensed over her McCain bumper sticker. My first thought was, You've got to be kidding. That's sick!. Then I read the details and saw the photo:


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I was just reading CNN's article about Gov. Charlie Crist's engagement to his girlfriend and was struck by the accompanying photo:


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You know, Jeffrey Toobin was right tonight. "Deranged narcissism" is a pretty good way to describe the Clinton campaign at this point. I don't agree with the CNN panel that this needed to be about the historic nature of an Obama nomination, but come on, how was this supposed to be "Hillary's night"? Please. She was dismissed by McCain tonight, ( Read more... )