Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are campaigning together publicly for the first time right now. They picked a small, appropriately named town – Unity, New Hampshire – which incidentally cast 107 votes in the NH primary for Obama and 107 votes for Clinton.
I’m telling you, this campaign couldn’t have a better script if it had [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The only thing better than L.A. is getting here
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged air sickness, air travel, BWI, flight delay, Hyatt, Los Angeles, United, USAirways on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
File this under: Things that should’ve been predictable.*
A national conference in L.A., an 8am meeting on Wednesday, and a flight scheduled to take off from BWI at 7pm on Tuesday. Now, taking into account the time change, that should put me in LA at 9:30pm – right? So, my ticket says US Airways, and I [...]
A (mostly) snarkless rebuttal
Posted in Elitism, Political Parties, Politics, Populism, tagged Breakfast Club, Claire McCaskill, elite, Greenwich Village, intellectualism, Jim Webb, John Kerry, Matt Taibbi, Rush Limbaugh on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Response to my brother’s post:
I guess if we’re kicking these off with movie quotes, I’ll reach for the high-ground (not a tough climb from “fuck-mooks”)
Brian: Did you know that without trigonometry there would be no engineering?
Bender: Without lamps there would be no light.
-The Breakfast Club
But I’ll leave that aside for a bit. Truth is, [...]
It felt like an Orioles game
Posted in Baseball, tagged Astros, Baltimore, Orioles, Pirates on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the past week, I’ve gone to two Orioles games: one last Friday when the Pirates returned to Baltimore for the first time since ‘79, and again last night as the Orioles were going for a sweep against the Astros. We won both, so yeah, both seemed exciting. But more than just the victories (and [...]
Liberals and the Constitution
Posted in History, Libertarianism, Majoritarianism, Politics, tagged Bob Byrd, Cato Institute, Constitution, constitutional amendments, Dennis Kucinich, FDR, George W. Bush, Progressive, strict constructionist, wiretapping on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My silverware drawer serves as a kind of middling region for my house – filled with things I know I want to keep, but don’t necessarily want to be reminded of on a daily basis. Aside from silverware, the drawer contains a couple of scorched potholders, a spare checkbook, a few stray keys, some [...]
Norma Rae, Rocky, and WJB for good measure
Posted in 2008 Primary, Elitism, Politics, Populism, tagged Appalachia, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Norma Rae, Rocky, William Jennings Bryan, working class on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over at Huffington Post, Bill Curry writes about the success of Act Two for Hillary in the Democratic Primary:
In Ohio and then Pennsylvania she channeled a surprisingly convincing blend of Rocky Balboa and Norma Rae in courting America’s least visible, least fashionable, constituency: hard scrabble, small town whites…
…As was said of Julia Roberts in [...]
