Elections are tomorrow, and in Seattle, we've got a couple of very interesting races, and for those of you who don't live around here, a couple of very interesting electoral features that really ought to be more widely adopted ( Read more... )

"There is no 'i' in 'real number'!"

(This joke brought to you by invidious politics.)

So, the environmental impact statement finally came out, and it appears that the tunnel plan will be useless - it would cost $4,000,000,000 and provide only a 2% improvement in traffic over just closing the viaduct and doing nothing. That's a waste of our money that we could spend in more efficient ways ( Read more... )

Newsweek has a long, 7 part campaign retrospective that reveals a lot of the behind-the-scense attitudes and maneuvering that produced the soap opera that we followed for the last year and a half. I enjoyed it immensely, and feel like it gave me better insight into the characters of the candidates, especially Obama ( Read more... )

Obama, speaking at the 2008 Al Smith Dinner, is hilarious:

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It's somewhat refreshing seeing the two branches of Congress working the way they were designed to, one taking a long view, and the other reacting based on the desires of citizens ( Read more... )

So do we finally have a Mexican standoff with regards to age, experience, and "historical firsts"? Or will those themes keep getting rehashed without anyone ever changing their minds?

*grump*

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Seriously, I don't think it matters where on the conventional spectrum you're at.

(yoinked from caladri and gfish)

YouTube video of Dick Cheney in 1994 explaining why we should not invade Iraq. He's clearly thought about it a lot, and concisely lists some very good reasons.