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A Beautiful Day

By On November 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

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 [...]

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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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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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