I haven’t said anything about the inauguration yet because I still can’t take it all in. It’s like something even bigger than this has gone down, whatever that may be. Very emotional, too, from one day to the next. The pre-inaugural concert on HBO yesterday was actually the biggest grabber for me. That finale with [...]
I think this is so cool: http://change.gov/ Pretty damn slick, too! (Your next government in action, assuming there’ll be anything left to govern.) Right now the Obama-Biden Transition Team site is taking comments on the American health care system — the very phrase makes me angry — and I just added one. You can, too, [...]
I can’t believe the kvetching: We just elected a 47-year-old black man with a middle name of “Hussein” to be President of the United States, and some folks are already grousing that he’s too “conventional.” But this is a very smart man. Business-as-usual isn’t an option any more. If he acts conventionally, he will fail. [...]
Looks like Obama carried Taos County with 82 percent… Talk about a blue town! For the record, Kerry got 76 percent in 2004. Just thought you’d like to know.
Yep, I’ll be updating FotoFeed soon. In the meantime, here’s a mountain for you: Taos Mountain yesterday evening, from the back “yard” Supposed to be 63 degrees today, well above normal. Yee-haw!
When have people been dancing in the streets after a national election in this country? Not in my lifetime, that’s for sure — at least as far as I can remember — and I was born on the day we bombed Nagasaki. I still can’t believe it. I can’t believe I get to be proud [...]
Wow. I mean, just wow. I’m still overwhelmed. For reasons too silly to enumerate, my wife and I are living without TV now. That means I had to follow this on the Internet, and it turned out that worked just fine. I was getting all the news from various blogs, and then I found myself [...]
This one comes from not too far from where I used to live. I found it at TPM Election Central. The Internet is full of these anecdotes today. Break out the Kleenex and read on: My polling place is at the fairgrounds in Southern Maryland, about 40 minutes from Washington, D.C. This used to be [...]
I just had to drive by the local Obama headquarters on my way to Cafe Loka. What a scene… there must have been 50 cars in the lot, with people coming and going. All the way into town, there were Obama volunteers on almost every street corner waving big “Vote Now” signs and exchanging waves [...]
Just a heads-up: Andrew Sullivan is posting a series of reader emails under the heading, “The View from Your Election.” Full of grab-your-hanky anecdotes! What a day.