Robert Naiman of The Huffington Post has responded to me. Well, all right, not to me specifically, but to the concerns I raised in my previous post.

To quote:

The Nobel Committee gave South African Bishop Desmond Tutu the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his leadership of efforts to abolish apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid wasn't fully ( Read more... )

So. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize ( Read more... )

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) will introduce legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act next week.

I'll believe it's happening when I see Obama actually sign the thing.

Batten down the hatches; here come the Haters for Jesus. Again.

I couldn't really believe it until McCain conceded.

Man, I don't think I realized how intensely emotionally involved I'd become with this election until I started crying and scared the cat.

Brave new world, that has such people in it.

copying from an AP report ( Read more... )

McCain's surprise choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is said to have "energized" his campaign. (Were they lackluster before, or just complacent?) I can understand it. She's passionate about what she believes, fierce about changing what she believes needs to change, beautiful (never hurts), and about as lock-down conservative as a person can be ( Read more... )

So, Bush isn't going to the Republican National Convention because of the danger posed by Hurricane Gustav ( Read more... )

My sister and I were talking last night, before Obama's speech, about who McCain would pick for a running mate, and we bet that he'd pick a woman. (Because picking a Black person would be too obviously pandering ( Read more... )

Obama-ites talk about how great he is, and justifiably so IMHO, and you know, it hasn't hurt his campaign that he's attractive and tall. Didn't someone do a study that showed the tallest candidate always wins? But never mind him for a moment; let me say something about his wife Michelle ( Read more... )

From somewhere on CNN.com ( Read more... )