Forward?
Forward!
As Vigo goes (2012)
“Indiana’s Vigo County has gone to Barack Obama, as it did in 2008. Vigo has voted for the winning candidate in every presidential election since 1956.”
Phrases
For Election Day.
Election Day
Why Tuesday? NPR explains.
Reality distortion fields
“A good RDF reshapes one’s sense of what is possible. Then there is the other kind of RDF, the kind that distorts matters of fact and history.”
About those canned goods
The last thing to donate for a disaster.
To vote, or not to vote
Errol Morris and Robert Reich on voting and not voting.
Change we cannot ignore
Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change and Sandy.
Period Exclamation point
The Obama campaign slogan now has an exclamation point: Forward! I still prefer the understated seriousness of the period.
Stepping in it
Harry Frankfurt, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney.
The New Yorker endorses Obama
“Every Presidential election involves a contest over the idea of America. Obama’s America — one that progresses, however falteringly, toward social justice, tolerance, and equality — represents the future that this country deserves.”
George McGovern (1922–2012)
“No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public.”
Word of the day: sketchy
“Creepy, iffy,” &c.
Live-blogging the debate
“Sketchy.”
Mitt Trail arrives for the debate
As dedicated Orange Crate Art readers know, I have long suspected that D-list comic-strip hero Mark Trail and Mitt Romney are the same (two-dimensional) person.
Mitt Incandenza
Two guys who’ll say anything.
Live-blogging the debate
You go, Joe Biden.
Mitt Romney debates himself
Yes, the candidates disagree.
Why save PBS?
A poster from PBS.
Edgewise
Silent Jim Lehrer.
Newton Minow’s advice
“Let me suggest that after you watch the debate on Wednesday night, you turn off your television set and do your best to avoid the spin that will follow.”
A tip for debate-watching
The best choice for watching a presidential or vice-presidential debate is C-SPAN.
Yes, we can
UNKNOWN CALLER called last night with a message from a group looking to “defeat Barack Obama.” Sorry, wrong number.
Happy harvest
Mirr Romney, harvesting people. Aiiee.
Now the other foot
The zillionaire doofus speaks.
Roger Ebert on current events
An Ebert column, “A Statement and a ‘Film’”
“I Won’t Talk”
Yesterday, in Iowa, Ann Romney declined to answer a journalist’s questions about same-sex marriage and contraception coverage. Elaine Fine responds.
Jennifer Granholm at the DNC
This woman was on fire.
Beloit Mindset List, 2034 edition
“Clint Eastwood has always been a vulgar old man.”
Mitt Romney, soaking in it
It’s called white privilege, and Governor Romney, you’re soaking in it.