Down Time

My son turns five today.  My baby, my youngest, my little man.  No politics here today.  Just love and celebration.  If you need a fix, check out the blogs I’m reading.  They’ll take good care of you.

And the only picture that really matters to me this morning

The next first family:

Obama’s Acceptance Speech

Here it is:
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
 
 
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around [...]

McCain’s Concession Speech

Damn.  If he had run his campaign with the same kind of grace and humility with which he gave his concession speech, he may have seen a different result tonight.  The booing of his supporters at the beginning of his speech, when he was just beginning to concede, was a clue as to why he [...]

Quote of the morning

Jonathan Alter of Newsweek speaking on MSNBC this morning:
Our first sixteen presidents could have actually owned Barack Obama as property.
History. In. The. Making.  Vote.

Enough

I and several (progressive) blogger friends I know have been inundated with comments on blog posts, both ancient and new, trying to make some point about William Ayers and the KKK.  I’m putting these people on notice that these comments, a front for Nancy Goldfarb and her whackadoole theories, will not be tolerated at this site [...]

Surely this campaign’s good for a novel?

If you’ve been volunteering, phone banking, canvassing, registering voters, engaging in debate, going to rallies, throwing house parties, or simply paying attention to this two year long campaign, you have to have seen enough to serve as the jumping off place for a novel, right?  Let me give you a little push:  today is the annual [...]

Quick note on taxes

Quick note on taxes before I run to my daughter’s *public* school for a harvest party.  Sarah Palin, speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania this morning, said this:
Do you want to work for your government or do you want your government to work for you?
Here’s my question:  How can your government work for you if [...]

Best ads of the campaign season

Politico has rounded up what they (and select staffers of both parties) think are the best political ads of the season.  There are some great ones on their list and you should check them out (esp. #3 “Hosed” … are they getting pissed on?).  I have to agree with their #1 pick.  Mike Gravel is [...]

Newsroom attacks?

So what’s really going on here?  I purposely did not report the letter received at the New York Times last week with a “white granular substance” in it.  The powder turned out to be nothing worth mentioning.  Today, however, Editor & Publisher is reporting that Reuters received an envelope out of which came a “puff [...]