The outcome of the election was not a surprise. A Dem win by either Senator Clinton or Obama became a near fait accompli the moment McCain clinched the nomination in a year in which the economy was the dominant issue for the electorate. The real shocker would have been a McCain upset. But like many […]
Later on tonight, (I’ve got to get some paying work done first) I’ll post all of my post-election musings and meloncholia in one big, rambling, depressing dump. Then, having fully purged, I’ll go back to posting mostly witty riffs on retro-future culture, oddball stuff I find on the web, and heart-warming anecdotes about parenting and […]
I strongly suggest you read this:
A group of British conservatives have launched a web site to counter anti-Americanism in Great Britain and elsewhere. Have a look at “America in the World.” Update: Maybe someone should launch a website to counter anti-Americanism in America.
In 2000, Al Gore got 29 percent of white voters who attended church weekly. Four years ago, John Kerry got an identical 29 percent of the same group. So, for the last four years Democrat strategists have worked at trying to peel off enough of those voters to swing a close election their way. Today […]
 Early on in this race, a lot of Americans, including some friends of mine, became enamored with with “idea” of an Obama presidency. As any good post-modern will tell you, narratives are everything, and the Obama narrative was über appealing. But here in the final hours before an election set in the most volatile global […]
