John McCain is increasingly becoming an embarrassment to the Republican Party. He’s been making gaffes on foreign and national policy around the clock for the last few weeks, and his campaign is looking more and more desperate as it goes for cheap stunts like mentioning that Obama is Castro’s choice. It’s weak sauce, but it [...]
Urgh, things are going from bad to worse at the moment. In the interim, Hilary Clinton has suspended here election bid. It might interest you to see A visualisation of how things look by demographics by state. Obama is in for the Dems, but he is looking worse and worse as a candidate for the [...]
Chuck’s rules have been kicked into oblivion, Bruce Scheneier has encrypted his facts; what’s important now is to know what will happen when Obama wins.
I’ve followed Ravelry drama much more closely than the election this year, with a few exceptions for really brilliant election moments. There’s a joke whispering around Ravelry about how Casey (the code monkey half of the husband/wife team behind the entire site) should run for President. I have to say after watching the guy do [...]
I read a lot about how Obama failed spectacularly to distance himself from the racially-charged statements of his pastor, and had little interest in reading “the race speech” (probably to be filed in the history books right after Romney’s “faith speech” as the rhetorical means and ends were pretty similar). Even so, I wandered into [...]