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From American Progress… Something to keep in mind while CNN blares: ELECTION – NOT SUCH A MANDATE: Following President Bush’s victory over Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday, conservative media followed Vice President Cheney’s lead in declaring the election “a decisive mandate for Bush’s agenda, and mainstream media outlets have followed their lead.” In fact, the […]

Half-inched from misia If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your

Here’s how the election would have panned out if it was up to all the under-30s who showed up on Tuesday. Obama is so winning in 2012.

It’s cheaper than London, and less people live there. Auckland is a lot like Seattle. It’ll be like an episode of “Lost” – only, with cities. Anyhow, I’m outta here. Taking tomorrow off to stay home and write, because really, you can only play so many rounds of Xuma.

“She wanted to be the heroine of her own life.” – Carol Emshwiller While on the phone with my dad last night, discussing my virulent rants here on Brutal Women, he asked me why I started this blog. There are several reasons for it: 1) I get to meet new and interesting people 2) I

It’s a lovely rainy November day here in Chi-town, and Al-jazeera has some news about Bush’s cabinet reshuffling (Colin Powell has had enough, and it’s rumoured that Rumsfeld is leaving), and here’s a neat 10 things the Chinese do better than we do from the Globe & Mail, and a boingboing reader sent in a

Deep breath. I’m home. No more bagels. My headache’s gone. I’m less nauseous. OK. Thoughts from Amp: The big mistake the Democrats, and most of the left, made was to believe that by winning elections we will change the country. Just the opposite is true. It is only by changing the country that we will

And, it appears my family has shown up in the comments section. I love the internet.

8:15am: Four more years of a nation led by criminals. I was making coffee with one eye on CNN when the news broke, and I called my dad, a man who’s spent many years fighting for good things, sometimes at great personal cost. “Get over it,” he said, “The way you feel now is exactly

Nick’s got some more good stuff up. I’ve been eating too many bagels, and have started in on the post-Halloween candy hidden all over the office. Not a proper binge, thank god, but not morsels I should be eating. Nick’s is a good reminder that they’re both shitty candidates. The Lesser of the Evils shouldn’t