Very pleased North Carolina's finally confirmed to have flipped blue in the Presidential election. It would have been very humiliating to have our northern mountain of conceit show up this vale of humility! Combined with the Democratic victory in Indiana, there's now an aesthetically pleasing contiguous sea of blue in the Northeast which only ( Read more... )

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. . . in Dixville Notch, that is. The New Hampshire hamlet always votes first just after midnight EST and is usually reliably Republican. Not tonight.

"I make them [decisions] quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow if I can. Often my haste is a mistake but I live with the consequences without complaint."

-- John McCain, Worth Fighting For.

A few weeks ago during the Republican convention Jon Stewart had a bit on The Daily Show where he compared Senators Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman to, respectively, Foghorn Leghorn and Droopy Dog. The latter's an old trope with Stewart, but I believe the former was a new association, and it turns out it's more accurate than Stewart's writers ( Read more... )

Big news here in North Carolina: our most infamous citizen has died.

Well, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but in this case that adage is hard to follow. Jesse Helms was truly one of the most contemptible men ever to hold a U.S. Senate seat, and there is some serious competition for that dishonor (Calhoun . . . McCarthy . . . Bilbo . . . Conkling ( Read more... )

Well, my prognastication has been pretty off this year - I predicted the Democratic nomination would all be wrapped up this past Tuesday night - but nonetheless, somehow I now feel superduperconfident in flexing some new Nostadamus-fu: this coming January, America will inaugurate a Senator as our Emperor for the first time in nearly fifty years! ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening I sat down and composed a long blog post as a requiem on the HRC campaign. It ended with an "And I for one welcome our new overlord Barack Obama" proclamation.

Boy do I feel foolish now.

You have to give it to the Clintons: they can take abuse, humiliation, and setbacks that would make your average human being curl up in a ( Read more... )

As a sort of followup to my earlier link to a HRC profile, here's a Rudy Giuliani profile. (Note to self: learn to spell his last name!)

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