Archive for June, 2008
Leave Michelle Obama Alone!
Seriously. This is pissing me off:
There seems to be no shortage of serious issues for this campaign season, but lurking in e-mail accounts are attacks on the candidates’ biographies. Sen. Barack Obama has been a particular target of anonymous e-mail; we at PolitiFact have received more negative e-mails about him than any other candidate, by [...]
Reflecting on History
While I haven’t explicitly stated it, my blogging policy this primary season has been to call out nonsense whenever I see it rather than to advocate vociferously for a candidate. Neither candidate being particularly progressive in my book (yes, I was one of those Kucinich supporters), I long decided that my focus would be on [...]
Do I Contradict Myself?
Hmmm….In this post, I write that I will never support Sen. Clinton. Then in this post I make an argument for an Obama/Clinton ticket?
Something tells me that I need to sit back and think all of this through some more.
Obama Is The Democratic Nominee
Obama has clinched the nomination. History has been made, but regardless of the outcome history would have been made. Before everyone starts gloating and talking shit, however, I think it’s important for people to listen to what Melissa has to say with regards to the treatment Sen. Clinton received this primary season. Actually, you should [...]
Interesting
The Associated Press is claiming that Sen. Obama has “effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.” The AP also claimed earlier that Sen. Clinton was going to concede tonight, which she has denied.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out tonight.
[Hat Tip: Nezua]
Yay! Book Meme!
Banned Book Project (via Belledame)
How it works: these are the 110 top banned books. Bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve read part of. Read more.
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales [...]
R.I.P. Bo Diddley
From the Associated Press:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ’n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits†rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan [...]
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