"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
The continuation of war by other means
Most of my Missouri relatives are registered Republicans, but I have a Show Me niece who is more Republican than most: she’s an up-and-comer in the party who was selected to spend a summer working as an intern at the Ronald Reagan Library. Smart as hell, too, this niece. I adore and admire her, so […]
It seems like whenever the news is good, the stock market tanks. Unemployment down? Stocks plummet. Wages up? Stocks plummet. Orders for durable goods up? Stocks plummet. New home starts up? Stocks plummet. And now the new administration gets a stimulus package stuffed with tax cuts through the senate . . . and stocks plummet. […]
First of all, Barack Obama needs to replace Rahm Emanuel: discovering that Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer were tax cheats was his job, and he failed to do it. He certainly wouldn’t be my chief of staff any longer. This whole rich-people-don’t-pay-taxes thing has got to stop. We’ve been having our noses rubbed […]
At 10:06 MST, Barack Obama became our new president. I don’t usually check the clock when important things happen, but I did this morning. My overwhelming impression, watching the crowds in DC? America’s finally coming to after an eight-year stupor. Have you ever seen such an outpouring of optimism and goodwill? Now we wait to […]
Did they just have a coup in Canada? It sure sounds like it: parliament was about to vote out the current prime minister, Stephen Harper, and put in someone else, and Harper . . . with the blessing of the colonial governor (i.e., someone who represents the Queen of England) . . . has shut […]
My daughter took this photo from her apartment balcony in Phoenix:
In the comment thread to my Choosing Day post, I responded to a reader by saying, in part: “In the weeks leading up to Nov 4th, I’d see polls on the internet that consistently showed Obama winning the electoral count with considerably over 300 votes to McCain with 170 or so. Yet the media felt […]
Here’s the tweet I just posted on Twitter: Wow. Just wow. Still waiting to hear about Franken in MN, Stevens in AK, some local results for AZ, but . . . wow! I’m proud to be an American tonight.