Remember that conversation we had about ten years ago — you know, the one in your grandmother’s kitchen? I think you were seven or eight at the time. I had just graduated from college. My dad (your mom’s first cousin) was there too. I don’t remember why the subject came up. But I do remember [...]
[6 Nov 2008]
… it looks like Barack Obama will be our next president. I have no words. Okay, I have a few, but I will save them for later when I can string them together coherently.
[4 Nov 2008]
He didn’t . By this time tomorrow, polls all along the east coast will be open and ready for citizens to cast their ballots. Roughly twelve hours later, we’ll start to get the nation’s first results in an election that is, for many reasons (starting with how f*ckin’ long ago the campaigning started), historic. Most [...]
[3 Nov 2008]
I’ve been meaning to write a post about Geraldine Ferraro. But you know, SxSW got in the way. I did however come across and comment on Dave Winer’s post about Ferraro’s comments. My comment was pretty much what I would have said in a blog entry, so I’m posting it here as well. I think [...]
[15 Mar 2008]
UPDATE: You may also be interested in The Boston Globe’s editorial Islamofascism’s ill political wind. From the piece: The pairing of “Islam” and “fascism” has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism – indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco [...]
[16 Jan 2008]