That's me in the foreground, and another voter in a partial tron costume to the left.
I'm in DC to cast my vote, after having spent a bunch of time in a suburban area. And what struck me is how urban politics is just so fundamentally different than suburban politics. In cities, you stand around in crowded places and meet candidates, and encounter lots and lots of people. In the suburbs, you're a pod person with a car and you never have to actually deal with anyone except by choice. It's really quite lonely and unnatural.
Juan Enriquez is prepping a whole lot of 'good liberals' for drastic cuts in entitlements. I love the pain caucus. Meanwhile, the economy is falling off a cliff.
Big coal is screaming through the right-wing blogs that Obama is going to drive the industry out of business. That's not actually what he's going to do, he's just going to force coal to compete with renewables and pay the costs of carbon emissions. If coal can win in the marketplace, great. But they can't. And they know. Hence, hissy fit.
"Probably the thing that scares the industry the most about a Democratic administration is regulating the Internet," Dan Hesse, chief executive of Sprint Nextel, said in a speech in Washington on October 24.
Go vote for Zack Exley's proposal to the Knight Foundation. If he pulls it off, this project could be a fundamental shift in how we organize our society.
Twittervotereport.com is actually a really neat election day project. Election day is usually really boring, with lots of poll-watching and sign holding and waiting around until vote counting starts. If there are problems with voting machines, well, then it gets a bit, um, exciting? This site should be very useful for such incidents and for run of the mill reportorial info.
As an anti-spam measure, there is a 24-hour waiting period after registering before new users can comment. blog advertising is good for you
blog advertising is good for you
