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A Talking Ed’s State by State Electoral Prediction Part Two: The Safe Obama States
In less than 24 hours the polls will open in what is surely the most historic election of my lifetime. With this wild and unpredictable campaign drawing to a close, it’s time for me to take a shot at what I think will happen tomorrow.
I predict that Sen. Barack Obama will become the first African-American [...]
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A Talking Ed’s State by State Electoral Prediction Part One: The Safe McCain States
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Sarah Palin Speaks in Snippets of Shakespearean Dialogue
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The Campaign
Obama wins Dixville Notch, NH In the first votes tallied this election day, Sen. Barack Obama has won, 15 to 6, in the town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, which voted at 12:00 am. Sen. Obama is the first Democrat to do so since Hubert Humphrey in 1968. So far, so good for Sen. Obama.
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Film and Television Reviews
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Baltimore anymore. The New York Times has a piece up about another famous Ed: Ed Burns, creator of “The Wire” and its predecessor “The Corner”. “The Wire” is possibly my favorite series of all time, combining spectacular writing, a number of knock-your-socks-off performances from relative unknowns like Michael K. Williams and Dominic West, and a biting [...]
Criticism and Book Reviews
A Very Spiteful Review of “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” For reasons I cannot understand, this book is treated as canonical in high school economics classrooms across the country. Friedman presents an argument that is not only exceedingly hypocritical but asserted almost entirely through a jungle of personal anecdotes. The Lexus and the Olive Tree is not so much an explanation of globalization as it [...]
Music and Culture
The Greatest Music Videos of All Time, Part I In the beginning there was Radio. The great people of this nation were expected to entertain themselves with it, but this proved impossible because of the precipitous collapse of Cuba Gooding Jr.’s career. Fortunately, in 1928, inventor and Mormon Philo Farnsworth created the first working television. That same year, Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett took up [...]
Fiction
Sarah Palin Speaks in Snippets of Shakespearean Dialogue We’ve taken excerpts from Sarah Palin’s speeches and public statements and inserted them into various scenes from some of the works of the Bard, William Shakespeare.
