I can’t believe Halloween’s upon us, and we never did get pumpkins carved this year. Since I’ve failed so miserably, I’ll just go with a photo of last year’s:
Some random Halloween thoughts:
Did you know that pumpkins aren’t vegetables? I always thought they were — how bizarre to learn that they’re a fruit! (That just seems […]
Sorry I’ve gone so quiet the last week or so. It takes too much energy to explain all the reasons why, but this little tidbit from the Chronicle sums up a big chunk of it:
23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
That is in contrast with the brilliant […]
Hunh. A friend emails something to add to our stress levels next time a hurricane’s in the Gulf of Mexico. From the NY Times:
Much of the University of Texas medical school on this island suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that […]
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Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska?
I don’t know, I don’t know. That’s a good question.
As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant -there are about […]
The Hill has a disturbing article describing how police around the country are preparing for the possibility of problems on election day.
Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.
Public safety officials said in interviews with The […]
Over the course of this interminable election season, there have been instances where racism has seemed to rear its ugly head. But Republicans calling Obama a socialist isn’t one of them.
The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has […]
Okay… so Little Green Footballs isn’t exactly a moderate site (*cough*) — but they are a big site. So when I saw this story headline on memeorandum today, I wondered what was up: Palin-Hatred Reaching Rabid Level
It’s a short post. It shows a very ugly depiction of Sarah Palin, and then lambasts the MSM […]
I came across an interesting tidbit at The Trail (WaPo):
In today’s Post-ABC tracking poll, Obama is winning 22 percent of conservatives. That’s his best showing yet among these voters, and if the percent holds on Election Day, it would be higher than conservative support for any Democratic nominee since 1980.
Obama also wins 12 percent support […]