First, the Democrats lost a seriously weird election yesterday in New Orleans.  Corrupt douchebag William Jefferson, who hid bribes in his freezer, lost to Joseph Cao, who will be the first Vietnamese American in Congress.  Pretty surprising, because the district has a PVI of D+36–making it more Democratic than any district in the whole country [...]

This was the last night on our three week road trip before reaching San Francisco.  It’s Crescent City, CA, which I thought would be bigger, although the houses have a sort of Bermuda feel to them.  They’re small, neat, close together and pastel.  (I only took pictures during golden hour, when pastels don’t always shine [...]

In late April, when Hillary Clinton was still technically viable as a potential nominee, bad Democrats like Evan Bayh suggested that the best measure of her success was the electoral vote totals of her primary victories.  “Obama can’t win the big states,” they said.  (And indeed, he had lost California, New York and Pennsylvania, tied [...]

Suck it Nebraska, Obama just won one of your electoral votes.  This is the first time that one of the two states that splits its votes (Maine is the other) actually split its vote.  Since McCain will probably walk away with Missouri (suck it, bellwether), it appears the final electoral tally will be 365-173.  A [...]

From CNN, the exit polls show that Obama did better among virtually every category of voter than John Kerry did…except the LGBT population.  By 11 points!  I guess not actively pursuing a constitutional amendment banning fag-fag marriage counts for something, but that’s just weird.  I mean, isn’t the gay usually at least a little smart?  [...]

I have to remind myself that the global euphoria we’re all participating in really is what it feels like: an extremely important episode in American history. It comes at a time when the country is starting to feel like the end of its dominance might be in sight, but Christ, it’s seriously goddamn fantastic.
I seriously [...]