This morning’s sustained exhilaration has been tempered somewhat by the remnants of intolerance as it appears California has narrowly passed Proposition 8, stripping gay couples of the right to marry, largely on the strength of opposition from blacks who voted for it by more than a 2:1 margin.
Arizona and Florida passed similar bans, the latter [...]
[Liveblogging throughout the day, because I want to remember as much of this as possible...]
11:45pm: Wow. President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama. Drop the “elect” and it rolls off the tongue. I’m kind of speechless, actually. It’s all over but the big speech; a speech that, after a string of amazing speeches, will be the biggest [...]
RIP: Madelyn Dunham, October 26, 1922 - November 3, 2008
“A quiet hero”, indeed.
May your grandson, and America itself, do you proud.
Related Reading via Amazon:
The Best American Poetry 2008: Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Charles Wright (Best American Poetry)
Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
The Bill Martin Jr [...]
I skipped The Incredible Hulk in theaters because I was fully expecting to be disappointed, but my son really wanted to see it and Iron Man was unexpectedly good, so we picked up the DVD and I was pleasantly surprised.
Ed Norton isn’t as dynamic an actor as Robert Downey, Jr., unlikely to carry a blockbuster [...]
There’s a bit of a tempest in a teapot happening over at Montclair State University thanks to a “controversial” episode of the Keith Knight comic strip, The K Chronicles, that was published last week in the student newspaper, the Montclarion, and included the word “nigger”.
Twice!
Well, kind of…
Seemingly lost on most of those in a tizzy [...]
