November 5, 2008
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Speaking Truth to Palaver
The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress. An excerpt: Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the… Continue reading
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The Leader
It finally occurs to me to turn on the TV. I’ve been listening to NPR and CNN on the laptop, with the htoel room’s flat screen blank in the corner. BBC Channel 3 is following the man we call #barackobama to the stage in Chicago. Now Obama is speaking. We are and always will be… Continue reading