New York, 4 November 2008, 8:00 am:
We moved to our friend Robert’s place last night. This morning my partner and traveling companion just said it was the first good night’s sleep he’s had in this town, despite the building shaking with the subway. It had been too noisy previously — and I finally get it [...]
New York, 3 Nov 08, 7:45pm
Joe Klein on Time’s Swampland has blogged a poignant response to the news of Obama’s grandmother’s death.
“Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, [...]
New York, 3 Nov 08, 7.30pm:
Toot, Obama’s beloved grandmother, died earlier today.
I was madly trying to catch a bus upstate a couple of hours ago — and most frustratingly missing it.
And so, also missed the TV report and BHO’s brief statement. But a friend called to say he had got a good speech out of [...]
New York, 3 Nov 08, 3.15pm:
The Beast
Tina Brown’s Daily Beast ran an article by Elaine Lafferty which has piqued a lot of interest (see, for instance, Slate’s women-only blog The XX Factor). Its title is “Sarah Palin’s a Braniac”. Lafferty is a Democrat who for some reason has worked as a consultant with the McCain [...]
New York, 3 Nov 08, 3pm:
The black website — a problematic label, but nevermind — The Root (no sniggering) wonders what will happen if/when Obama wins. Or if he loses. Will Black people riot? Why do you ask?
New York, 2 Nov 08, 2:15am:
Against Cynicism:
Joe Klein, ancient reporter type of 40 years standing (and notoriously anonymous author of the scurrilous “novel” of the first Clinton campaign, Primary Colours) has blogged an admirably open-hearted, ideology-free piece on Time’s Swampland.
He ends like this (my added bold type):
I’ve often said that cynicism is what passes for [...]
New York, 2 Nov 08, 2am:
A very clever rendition of the whole campaign as an extreme graphic:
This F*king Election.
New York, 2 Nov 08, 2am:
A man learns that the US election isn’t about the “Big”things:
Let me make it clear: I’m pretty conservative. I grew up in the suburbs. I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, and his son once.
I encouraged my son to join the military. I was proud of him in [...]
New York, Thurs 30 Oct 08, 7:30am
You know the end is nigh when the comics come in carrying knives.
The angriest man on US TV isn’t Bill O’Reilly — a blowhard so reliably turned up to 11 on the volume knob that he’s both unwatchable and beyond registering. That is to say, he’s recognisably phoney, and [...]
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