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Archive for November 5th, 2008

Can we have moment of silence? This was the bane of my existence back when dinosaurs ruled the land and used Win 3.11 and trumpet winsock to connect to Unix shell accounts on a server I supported. Lynx and Gopher were the tools of choice to browse text information. E-mail wasn’t very useful because so [...]

The funny thing about this election is that sources like The Onion and the Daily Show have been more honest and perceptive than the main stream media by leaps and bounds. Here’s an example
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Carrying a majority of the popular vote, [...]

Election Reax

Sully runs down the blogospheric reactions:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 05, 2008) - Election Reax

NY Times notes the utter failure of the federal government as a prime cause of republicans’ defeat across the board. Has Bush said, it was an accountability moment. Never put someone in charge of government when they’re ideologically committed to it’s failure:
Editorial - The Next President - NYTimes.com
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, [...]

Local take on election results

America wins. The politics of hate lose.
Obama’s victory, and America’s - St. Petersburg Times
The 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois tapped into the hunger for change and for candidates who unite rather than divide. Obama won Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia, states President Bush won four years ago. He won the battleground state of [...]