As if you didn't already know, Allen has conceded defeat in Virginia which means that the Democrats will now control the Senate.

wendolen has posted some amusing images here (with links to more in the comments).

As an explanation for their "thumpin'", the Republicans blame election losses on Democrats.
Republican officials are blaming tonight's GOP ( Read more... )

Democrat Jon Tester has been called as the victor in Montana after one recount! That means that the Democrats currently have fifty seats to the Republicans fourty-nine; however, since the tie-breaking vote is the Leader of the Senate which is the Vice President, the Democrats have to take Virginia to have a majority. Democrat Webb has won in ( Read more... )

I can't stay up anymore. The Senate race won't be done for some hours, so I think I'm going to try to take a nap (versus a full night's sleep) and dream of ShrubCo being impeached sometime in the next two years. I do believe the Democrats will get Virginia, Missouri, and Montana -- according to the data here, unless the recount goes awry in ( Read more... )

The White House has conceded the House of Representatives to the Democrats. Congratulations to Nancy Pelosi, the Congressperson from San Francisco who will soon be the first female Speaker of the House. This may end up being a sizable majority. I think it's twenty-one now, obviously well above the fifteen they needed ( Read more... )

Holy shit, the main media outlets called the Governor's race for Deval at 8pm -- the instant (most of) the poll closed. What the fuck? Way to combat voter apathy, media. And way to follow through on not celebrating victories until all the votes have been counted, Democrats. Grrrr.

Other instances of madness in this election include poor and ( Read more... )

I am currently sitting and watching the election results come in on BBC News 24 and Sky News. Well, not exactly currently, as the television is in the lounge and I am in the hall at the computer. I am also periodically checking boston.com.

So far, I am elated to hear that Republican Rick Santorum has been unseated as the Senator from ( Read more... )

I got my ballot late this year due to the incompetency of the Massachusetts Elections Division, but was able to send it back on 20 October due to excellent time management (ie, spending a couple of days not doing much else in my free time) and being known well by the Burlington Town Hall. (This does not explain why it then took me over two weeks ( Read more... )

Fascinating article from brigid:

Faith binds many on Sox: Evangelical Christians give sport a spiritual contextI get that some people have a gripe with the fact that there are a number of Evangelical Christians on the team -- a dozen, more than in any other Major League Baseball team. But I don't understand it. The mere fact that someone is an ( Read more... )

Alison and Gil's House in Braintree, 19 August 2004
My parents and I went to go visit my cousin Alison and her then-fiance (now-husband) Gil at their new house in Braintree and to see my Grandma Bea who was living there at the time. While my parents were out eating at a restaurant, I stayed to have dinner with Ali & Gil and my younger cousins ( Read more... )

The lesson of the '40' bottle of cheap liquor, 17 August 2004It came to my attention some time ago that British people do not know what a 40 is. Although it did not come as a surprise that 40 ounces of malt liquor is a unique invention for the American alcoholic and underage teenager given the different measuring systems used in the two countries ( Read more... )