Attending the presidential inauguration was a little like getting a tattoo: the pain was temporary and the memory lasts a lifetime. I was awake for 32 hours, on my feet in 20-degree temperatures for 12 hours, and I’m thinking I may regain the full use of my legs by sometime early next week.
So was it [...]
I’m heading to D.C., baby!
Three busloads of students from the UofR will be leaving Monday for an all-night road trip to the nation’s capitol, and I’ll be along for the ride as one of the “event managers” (read: “chaperones”). Our 150 students will be joining a crowd of 2-4 million citizens of the world along [...]
In five days time, we will all wake up in a world where George W. Bush is no longer president.
The wreckage from these past eight years is quite staggering. The Center for Public Integrity lists 128 failures of the Bush administration and offers a handy online tool that lets you sort, rank and suggest additional failures. It’s [...]
Yes SIR, Mr. President, sir!
The Obama presidency is truly groundbreaking. Barack Obama will be the first African-American president, the first president from the state of Hawaii, the first president to use email, and the first president with six-pack abs.
–lori.
After stuffing his presidential cabinet full of scientists, economists, political experts, and Nobel Prize-winners (and in record time, too) Barack Obama is now settling his brains for a long winter’s nap.
A new group of FOBs (Friends of Barack) have gathered at an oceanfront estate in Hawaii for a ten-day Christmas vaycay. No word on whether [...]
I know it’s sorta beyond schadenfreude at this point, but this is just too good.
With over two million views on YouTube so far, the odds are good that you’ve seen this already. But just in case you haven’t, it’s worth a look.
I don’t know what’s funnier: the fact that former veep candidate Sarah Palin was filmed [...]
Salon has a nice piece today whereby reporters, commentators, and academics were asked the question “What does Obama’s victory mean?” and then asked to confine their answer to a single sentence that begins with the same two words: “It means …”
I have a couple of favorites (It means the world is ready to follow if America [...]
The General Tso’s chicken is at the door, the wine is being poured, the pajamas are on, and in the Goddess Attic Election Center, we’re in for a hell of a night.
6:20: Watching CNN unveil their new Super-Holograph-o-Vision election technology. It appears that the rotating Capitol Building floating over Campbell Brown’s desk is frozen. Much [...]
10. To be a part of history. Just think: the first Muslim Marxist terrorist president!
9. He’s brand spanking new! Like an Android-powered G1.
8. He still talks about global warming and energy policy without resorting to chanting.
7. Two words: President Palin.
6. Because hope is audacious, and possibly contagious.
5. He’s made of kittens and smells [...]
In March of 2006, Delaware senator Joe Biden became the first to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. It would be another 20 months before a single vote was cast, and by the time of the Iowa caucuses, 16 people would be running for the office from the two major parties. On Tuesday, there will be [...]
