During the new Obama administration and 111th Congress, the old South will be shut out of power, for only the third time since 1930. The other two times were brief (1953-54 and 1965-66).
If Obama does well, then the coming dry spell for the old South could match the post-Reconstruction record of 14 years (1897-1910).
Archive for November, 2008
One other effect from the ‘08 election…
Posted in History, Politics on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Darn Coogs…
Posted in Sports, Texas on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I was all set to head to a bar tonight with a fellow Houston refugee to watch the University of Houston men’s basketball team play against mighty Duke on national television. All the Coogs needed to do was to beat Georgia Southern yesterday afternoon, and they would be in the game tonight. Easy, right?
Apparently [...]
AT&T >>> Comcast
Posted in Blogging on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m using my iPhone to blog from home because my home network has gone down. Again.
Armistice Day
Posted in History on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 11th minute. Of the 11th hour. Of the 11th day. Of the 11th month.
Ninety years ago today, Europe ended its first attempt at collective suicide. At war’s end, France had suffered 1.7 million dead and 4.3 million wounded from a population of 39 million; it had been “bled white”. Ninety years later, as the [...]
Still crazy after all these years
Posted in Politics on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Hayden is still not a member of the reality-based community.
If we’ve learned anything from the last eight years, isn’t it that evidence is a good thing?
The Empress (Card 3)
Posted in Tarot on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have just seen the close of two major presidential campaigns: one driven primarily by love and hope, and the other driven primarily by hate and fear.
The campaign that was driven by love and hope was a productive and fertile campaign, amazing observers with a stream of innovative methods and creative output; appealing to voters [...]
Obama’s biggest accomplishment
Posted in History, Politics on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It just hit me what Barack Obama’s biggest accomplishment was this week.
Let’s look at the last three Democratic presidential wins. When Clinton won in 1992 and 1996, Republicans could blame Perot. When Carter won in 1976, Republicans could blame the long-departed Nixon.
Obama’s win was the first time since 1964 that the Republicans have lost the [...]
Headline of the day
Posted in Humor on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You cannot convince me that this headline was not deliberate.
(…”members of the FMC brought an open, empty guitar case to the meeting”…)
“Moonlight in Vermont”
Posted in Music on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been listening to a lot of ’50s recordings of standards lately, and I enjoy listening to how various vocalists handle these lines from “Moonlight in Vermont”:
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely
Evening summer breeze
The phrasing is awkward, which I think is exactly why the lines can be so touching [...]
Heckuva job, Rovey
Posted in Politics on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karl Rove aspired to be the Mark Hanna of our time.
He has ended up being its Harry Daugherty.
Words to remember after Tuesday
Posted in Politics, Quotation on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Vauvenargues] warns, following Spinoza, that it serves no useful purpose to engage in revolution, or throw out a tyrant, if the people do nothing to change such systems of law and authority as pave the way for despotism. If the people want no more tyranny then they must learn to change their laws and create [...]
At Waterloo / Ol’ Blue Eyes did surrender…
Posted in Music on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 17, 1955. Frank Sinatra is in one of his final recording sessions for a new album, a concept album. An album for the weary, the sad, the broken. “In the Wee Small Hours”, he was going to call it. In the last two days, he had cut eight songs that would end up on [...]
WordPress for iPhone
Posted in Apple, Blogging on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I bought an iPhone on Thursday and my first application from the App Store was WordPress for the iPhone. It took just a few minutes to get it figured out, and now I can blog remotely. Very nice.
