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This is the moment

By On November 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

[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 [...]

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Yes We Can, Must and WILL

By On November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

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RIP: Madelyn Dunham, October 26, 1922 – November 3, 2008

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“A quiet hero”, indeed.

May your grandson, and America itself, do you proud.

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Buyer’s Remorse

By On November 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

Happy Halloween
Originally uploaded by bloomfieldguy

Actually, not at all.

It’s been five months since we bought the house, four months since we moved in, and excepting the unexpected $1,000 expense to fix a leak in the living room ceiling coming from the upstairs bathroom, homeownership [...]

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Apology Unnecessary

By On October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Pop Culture, Publishing

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 [...]

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Election 2008: D&D Style

By On October 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

This might be one of the funniest — if narrowly targeted — spoofs of the election I’ve seen so far:

HILARY: C’mon you guys, I’ve been playing this shit since Gygax was in eighth grade.  Why can’t I be the party leader with the magic sword for once?

MCCAIN: Because no one wants [...]

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