Fri 05 Sep
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This disdain for their smarts shows up in the whole way they’ve cast this race now, turning a contest over economic and foreign policy into a culture war of the Real vs. the Elites. It’s a smoke and mirrors game aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the party’s tax policies have helped create an elite that’s more distant from “the people” than ever before.
Fri 05 Sep
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Palingenesis
Is there a reason she wasn’t asked to sit down with Dick Cheney and Dan Quayle? Or is a female vice president just another version of first lady to the Republicans?
Let me begin with…
Fri 29 Aug
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Gold-medal winning female athletes are not looked upon by male athletes with any more desire than those who flunked out in the first round. It is sometimes even considered a defect, as if there is something downright unfeminine about all that striving, fist pumping and incontinent sweating. Sport, in this respect, is a reflection of wider society, where male success is a universal desirable whereas female success is sexually ambiguous.
Fri 29 Aug
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McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate - NYTimes.com.
I suck at prognosticating.
I suck at prognosticating.
Mon 25 Aug
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Nighttime
It’s 3 AM and the four fingers of my daughter’s tiny right had are stretched across my lips. They are not resting. The appendages wiggle and move constantly. Grabbing a lip here, poking…
Mon 25 Aug
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Okay, I got the Obama choice wrong. But as oumay have guessed, I’m not unhappy, given that Biden was my top choice. Let’s see how I do with McCain.
Mon 18 Aug
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My VP Predictions
Obama will pick Jack Reed.
McCain will pick John Thune.
Within the next week, we’ll see if I’m right.
Updated (10 minutes later) to add….
While I think Joseph Biden is a strong choice, perhaps even my favorite of the ones highlighted here, I think that Obama-Biden lacks musicality-it’s almost as bad as Mondale-Ferarro—and in the era of the sound bite, bad sounding names are a liability. Should Obama win the presidency, Biden will be his Secretary of State.
McCain will not pick Romney or Huckabee, in spite of how badly both of them are lobbying for the job. he will pick Thune because he is attractive, youthful, and respected amongst Republicans. Thune also appears regal and presidential, but not waxy like Romney.
Mon 18 Aug
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