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Last night, today and tomorrow

Last night, there were people cheer­ing on the street where I live. Today, I teared up as I saw com­plete strangers con­grat­u­lat­ing one another and hug­ging each other on the street where I work. And tomor­row… tomor­row brings uncer­tainty, doubt and new chal­lenges as all tomor­rows do. I only hope that we, as a nation, can remem­ber that before last night [...]

November 5, 2008 | Categories: Politics

Edwards dropped out of the race to get VP nod?

I’m def­i­nitely no polit­i­cal junky, and I’ve def­i­nitely watched too mutch West Wing but some­thing hit me while watch­ing an Onion Tivo­Cast about John Edwards in New Hamp­shire. (Okay my Tivo watch­list has a ten­dency to pile up, so sue me…) Anyway, I’m think­ing that John Edwards bowed out of the race, ear­lier than expected, in an [...]

January 30, 2008 | Categories: Politics

Moron of the week: Republican Mike Daniel

From this Sundays’s AJC edi­to­r­ial page: If you don’t have your photo ID, you should not be able to vote. Voting is a priv­i­lege, not a right. – Repub­li­can Mike Daniel, who voted at Dun­woody High School in DeKalb County I’m no Con­sti­tu­tional scholar, but the 15th Amend­ment, 19th Amend­ment, 23rd Amend­ment, 24th Amend­ment, 26th Amend­ment and the Votings [...]

July 23, 2006 | Categories: Politics

Georgia’s govenor is a moron

Wherein I deride the state of Geor­gia, espe­cially, it’s govenor, for being a moron.

September 23, 2005 | Categories: Politics

Today sucks

Today Amer­ica has spoken… it’s chosen moving back­wards (or at best stand­ing still). It’s decided to throw its sup­port behind a man — and let’s remem­ber, that in this coun­try, the pres­i­dent is just a man with an office that has a nice view of D.C. — who won’t take respon­si­bil­ity for his actions, who divides instead [...]

November 3, 2004 | Categories: Politics

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Mail carrier N. Sorenson delivering Christmas mail through the snow. (Chicago Daily News/Chicago Historical Society)