While I try to get at least a little work done today. Drinking begins promptly at 7. ***Update*** Eastern standard time.
Open Threads
Mitt Who?
I see a number of libs linking to this NBC interview with Mitt Romney: VIEIRA: So, let me ask you, would you characterize John McCain’s campaign as dignified and honest? ROMNEY: Well, what I’d characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama. […] VIEIRA: So you think his campaign …
Awful News
Senator Durbin’s daughter has died. Christine Durbin, the oldest daughter of Sen. Dick Durbin and his wife, Loretta, died Saturday of complications from a congenital heart condition in a Washington-area hospital, the senator’s Washington office announced. Christine Durbin was one of three children in the Illinois senator’s family and had worked for 16 years in …
No On 8
A message from the Republican mayor of San Diego: Here’s hoping there’ll be more Republicans like him in the coming years. Text of his speech, for those of you who cannot see it, after the jump:
As Promised
I told you all that you would get a chance to see what I looked like in a Halloween costume, and, as promised, here you go: Me as a hobo.
Post Recommendation
Just finished reading this DailyKos recommended diary, Inauguration Ball 2009, and actually got goosebumps. Update: I am as lily white as you can get. I grew up in a small town in eastern Canada (Clarenville, Newfoundland – 2200+ people) until I was 16. I never knew a black person in all the time I lived …
A Survey
Your help is being requested: A research team from the Psychology Department at New York University, headed by Professor Yaacov Trope and supported by the National Science Foundation, is investigating the cognitive causes of voting behavior, political preferences, and candidate evaluations throughout the course of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. This stage of the study …