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November 6, 2008

Change is coming …

I’m loathe to be critical of someone who is promising change and who hasn’t even had a chance to sit in the big chair yet, but when Obama promised ‘change’, was he just talking about pocket change, like pennies and nickels? This announcement makes me feel that way.  Appointing another alumnus from Goldman Sachs to the Department of Treasury doesn’t really smell like ‘change’.  It […]

Politics
November 4, 2008

The Night of the Shredders and Black Markers

Obama will win the US election.  I know he will.  I hope he will. There’s still the outside chance that pre-programmed electronic voting will steal it from him, at which point, there will be a complete meltdown in the US. However, I remain cautiously optimistic that his margin of lead is so broad that not even Rovian corruption can steal this election from the man […]