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Archive for November 5th, 2008

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Oh Rapture

James Joyner marvels that
The top entry pages at OTB over the last hour, by a longshot, are Barack Obama the Socialist, Obama the Antichrist?, and Left Behind Authors Say Obama Is Not the Antichrist.  (Also getting a lot of entries, likely through the vagaries of search engine rankings, Primary Popular Vote Totals.)
Apparently, neither John McCain’s [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Stepping off the cynicism train for a moment

By Thoreau
[EDIT:  Sorry to close comments so early, but spambots have discovered this thread and are not giving up.  Spambots do not stop thinking about new ways to stifle our discussions, and neither do we.]
I’ve said more than enough over the past several months about why fear that a certain Senator who voted for a [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Dog blogging: Even Caesar is human

By Thoreau
“Sasha and Malia … I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us …to the new White House.”
Though he may be the most powerful man on earth, set to assume command of legions deployed in every corner of the globe, a bureaucracy unparalleled [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Who Is John Gout?

IOZ on all the little Atlases . . . well, not shrugging exactly:
Anyway, Reynold’s army of John Galts (pray: come, let us snicker together), a gang of pencil-neck Sharper-Image shoppers with dreams of mountain redoubts and rough sex with heiresses, petulantly proclaim that they will . . . well, they do not seem to be [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Man Walks On Fucking Moon III

Speech over, they play the Springsteen song in which all the firemen die. Awesome!

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

OK, I’ll cover the cynicism beat

By Thoreau
It looks like Proposition 5, which would have diverted more drug offenders from prison to rehab, is going to fail. Say what you will about how puny this is in the face of the bigger news tonight, but the Drug War is the path through which the worst tools of the War on [...]

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Man Walks On Fucking Moon III

Listening to the victory speech: Deliberate Sam Cook allusion FTW.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The Rats in the Polls: Epilogue

Mark Levin stays classy at the Corner:
PS – John McCain just gave a classy concession speech.  If McCain had won, we were told of possible riots.

First: Piss off. Second: Yes, by right-wing fearmongers. Third: Nyah nyah nyah! Fourth: Piss off.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Man Walks On Fucking Moon II

The cynical reaction would be, "Here, colored boy. We broke the country. You fix it." But listening to Eugene Robinson’s voice breaking as he talks just a little bit about what the election means to him personally, I don’t feel like being cynical at the moment.