Month: November 2008

I hate the culture war. Yet I have been writing about it for years, spilling tens if not hundreds of thousands of words in post after post. As to how many hundreds of hours of my life this has consumed, I’m probably better off not knowing, because if I did know, I might start wondering…

Erica Jong predicts that if Obama loses there will be a second civil war in America. One wag at the site linked (Hot Air) had this to say: If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. The sad part is that this is starting…

Via a comment at HillBuzz comes a link to audio of a Republican Operative who says some pretty outrageous things about the state of the election. Things like McCain is way ahead in Pennsylvania. And that McCain has a chance in California. Who could believe it? Here are the numbers the operative gives according to…

HillBuzz has this to say about their Halloween Report. Halloween costumes are a reflection of the zeitgeist in that moment — Palin and McCain were the costumes on people’s minds, because they are who are in the pop culture’s imagination right now. The ticket that is best represented in Halloween costumes in an election year…

So I’m reading this, because Justin told me to go to Protein Wisdom and find it. As it happened, just as I was right in the middle of it — savoring every mean and vicious Rethuglican word — a team of Obamacrat volunteers came knocking at my door. They were furiously barked at, and I…

Many of you, like me, may know Seattle’s consciously lefty paper the Stranger through sex-columnist cum-editor Dan Savage. I occasionally read his column, Savage Love, and I listen to his podcast weekly. He’s entertaining, informative, and like many people, a blind follower of the Democratic party with zero tolerance for Republicans of any stripe. I…

Feminist author and icon Erica Jong has stated that an Obama loss “Will Spark the Second American Civil War” and that “Blood Will Run in the Streets“: Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night.”…

Rick Nebel of EMC2 explains what the recent flurry of contracts from the Navy (New IEC Fusion Experiment Contract) was all about. This isn’t a big deal. This is small, interim funding. It’s called staying alive until they make a decision. At least they are going to be able to keep the team together until…