Hopped across the street and voted before heading to work today (for some reason I thought the polls were open from 8am to 8pm. In fact, they were open here around 6am). Linda, one of our architects, just voted in the US for the first time (she’s orginally from Poland). She found it quite exciting. […]
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Since I’ve been using it as my sounding board, here’s the FAQ about the guy running electoral-vote. Good luck, everybody. via Simon
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There’s an interesting article up at Strange Horizons on the stereotype of the “Magical Negro” in fantasy fiction. Author Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu looks at this white-written type in the novels of Stephen King (Dick Hallorann in The Shining, Mother Abigail in The Stand, John Coffey in The Green Mile, etc). There’s some discussion about the problems
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Great stuff from Nick: What happened is that most Americans are utterly incapable of conceptualizing the United States as a nation on the defensive and losing the war on terror. Yes, people will acknowledge that terror is a tactic, and then cannot be warred upon any more effectively than, say, deep frying. Yes, people can
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http://www.electoral-vote4.com The regular site electoralvote.com was down, electoral-vote2.com was “unavailable” but electoral-vote4 is up and running (he’s got it running on 6 servers for just this reason). If nothing else, Kerry winning means I get to stop bitching about politics until January. Let’s make sure I can take a month-long politics-bitching hiatus, OK? After that:
Blaine reappeared and dropped me off at the train station on his way to his lake house, Jenn is out of town for some much-deserved Halloween debauchery in Las Vegas, and after much perusal of theatre offerings, jazz nights, comedy stuff at Second City, and a good, hard, look at my bank account, I’ve decided
Well, besides the fact that he’s out traveling 2-3 weeks every month, has been known to bring me coffee, never hangs over my shoulder, and takes great stock in my perceived intelligence in matters of reading, research, computer knowledge, and grammer… and seems to assume that I’m psychic…. Blaine burst into the office this morning
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