For poofs
In Which Your Humble Blogger responds to something Ann Coulter said, believe it or not.
Category: Politics
A blogger’s perogative?
Five Things I Have Been Persuaded to Change My Mind about Since College: Note: These are not things that I have changed my mind about due to exposure (such as a newfound fondness for Early Music or the realization that…
Always inform yourself; always do the best you can; always vote.
Your Humble Blogger happened to surf over to a Washington Monthly essay by Christopher Lehmann called Why Americans can’t write political fiction. Um … they can’t? What Mr. Lehmann means, I think, is that there aren’t very many political novels…
Liberals, arts, colleges
I happened to see a New York Times article about two recent studies of the Liberal Professoriate (working paper versions are available of the two, How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields and…
Theme Song
Over at Kos, Chik Patty asks What Should Kerry’s Campaign Song be? Your Humble Blogger thinks it’s a fun, fun question. There are two ways to play, boys and girls; seriously or less so. Da Boss? Ray Charles (may he…
Whew. That was hard.
Well, and what did Your Humble Blogger learn from all of this? I learned a lot about the various candidates, of course, which was interesting and fun in itself. I learned that it is way way easier to project a…
Alfred ‘Al’ Sharpton
Reverend Alfred ‘Al’ Sharpton (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Um. Well. He was a tour manager for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. He is only slightly less qualified than Lincoln was, right? Seriously, he is the head of the…
Joseph I. Lieberman
Joseph I. Lieberman (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Joe Lieberman went to Yale undergraduate and law, then went into the Connecticut Senate. He was Majority Leader of the State Senate there for a while, then ran for Congress and lost. He…
Dennis J. Kucinich
Dennis J. Kucinich (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Dennis Kucinich was a whiz kid, 30 years ago. He was elected to Cleveland’s City Council in 1969, at the age of 23. He ran for Congress (and lost)as a Democrat in 1972,…
John Forbes Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Senator Kerry is in his fourth term, and before that he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts for two years. He also was an Assistant DA in Middlesex County (Cambridge, etc.). Oh, and in…