Dear Prudence: Inauguration Edition

I enjoy Slate’s weekly column “Dear Prudence” where writer Emily Yoffee dispenses advices to readers’ quandaries.  Slate also started a weekly video version of the column as well.  I’m not a fan of the animations they use, but this week’s video is Obama/inauguration themed and features advice for both the overly hopeful afraid of a [...]

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Athens News Inauguration Blog

It looks like the Athens News has sent some of its reporters to Washington D.C. to cover the inauguration.  You can see the blog at:
http://athensinauguration.blogspot.com/.

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Prop 8 Supporters Going After Marriages

Really?
Apparently supporters of Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that changed the state constitution to declare marriage as just between one man and one woman are now seeking to make sure that those same sex couples who marriage conducted during the brief time when it was legal will no longer be recognized.
From CNN:
“Proposition 8’s brevity [...]

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This is What Your Heart Tells You to Do?

Found at Broadsheet.

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McCain Brought a Spoon to a Spork Fight

OK, I admit it I stole the title from the Daily Show’s live show tonight.
Obama wins.  McCain concedes with quite a bit of class (his supporters, not so much).
Thank god.
Oh, and way to go Ohio.  I’m happier to be here now. 

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Happy Voting Day

Jake and I went to vote before work this morning.  Though the parking lot was busy enough to have volunteers outside directing traffic, it didn’t end up taking very long.  I’d say we spent less than 15 minutes there altogether.  I forgot to get my “I Voted” sticker, though, so I’m a bit sad.
Overall the [...]

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McCain on SNL – QVC Infomercial

So, John McCain went on SNL last night. I can’t embed the video, but it’s available at the SNL website.  I don’t know how much it’s going to help McCain, except to maybe rehabilitate his image a bit, which I believe has suffered among those who aren’t die hard social conservatives (and perhaps those of [...]

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But Why?

From a Salon article “McCain Gets Mean” by Rebecca Traister.
[Arlen] Specter, the senior senator from Pennsylvania, was talking about his “sense” that Election Day in his state was going to be a rude awakening for Democrats, despite weeks of polls showing Republicans lagging far behind in this former swing state. That’s when he let loose [...]

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About that Whole Socialist Thing

While John McCain and Sarah Palin have been blasting Barack Obama for advocating socialist policies in this last desperate week before the election, it’s good to see some journalists point out that Obama is hardly a socialist, and if he is, then McCain (prior to his cringe-inducing run for president) was probably one too.
Salon has [...]

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Just for Laughs

I think someon’s been on the campaign trail a bit too long.

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