Your Humble Blogger loves the Oscars. Well, no, I find them immensely frustrating, but that’s part of the fun. And to add to the fun, I want to run an Oscars Prediction game. And since most of the fun is…
Your Humble Blogger is probably not going to write about politics much in the next few weeks. I am, slowly, getting over the depression part, but I haven’t much taste for dissecting what went wrong, nor for predicting what the…
Well, I admit that I’m depressed. I’m disappointed, of course, that Our Only President will remain in office, and that his cronies will continue running a secretive, dishonest and incompetent administration. What’s more disappointing, though, is that I thought the…
Well, ABC just called Florida red, which still means that it’s up to Ohio, but more importantly means that if Senator Kerry wins Ohio on the count, a successful court challenge gives the White House back to Our Only President…
OK, an hour later, and what do we know? Nothing more than before. There’s still no news from any of the battleground states. Red states still red. Blue still blue. Purple still purple. And on we go. I do keep…
OK, it’s 9:25 here, and there’s essentially no news, and there won’t be any news for hours. News about the election, that is. OK, that’s not technically true. We’ve had some bad news about the Senate and the House, and…
Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy. If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara–nor you, ye limitless prairies–nor your…
Do you know how, sometimes, even the day before the election, you can be all, like, reasonable and stuff, and then there are those other times? Folk-punk genius Jim Infantino (and his Big Ego) has a beautiful little ditty for…
I was just this morning thinking about writing a how-many-people-will-vote note. On DKos this morning, UMBC’s Tom Schaller predicts 124,000,000 votes cast. That’s to think about going in to the booth on Tuesday; you are voting by yourself, but the…
About a year and a quarter ago, Your Humble Blogger wrote this note about John Kerry. At the time, I was looking at the Democratic candidates and trying to ascertain not what kind of candidates they would be, but what…