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Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:44:30 -0800

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are | The Onion

Proposition 8: only one chapter in an ongoing story

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:20:14 -0800

A large number of Californians yesterday voted to expand the rights of chickens on the same ballot that they voted to rescind the rights of gay people. While this may reflect poorly on human nature and its zoological priorities, it does not indicate an mortal blow to homosexual rights. This a setback, and a temporary one at worst.

The next step: bring on the lawyers — we have an Equal Protection violation here. There’s already at least one lawsuit, and there will be others. Soon enough, the case will appear before the federal courts. Regardless of how the district court rules on the subject, it will end up before the Ninth Circuit, the most favorable venue for progressive legal issues in the country. Gay rights have a better home field advantage in the Ninth Circuit than the Red Sox do at Fenway.

What happens next will be interesting. It is possible that the Supreme Court will refuse to hear an appeal, since the issue hasn’t been marinating in the political process all that long. One of arguments against Roe v. Wade is that the Court weighed in before the democratic branches of government fully had their say, and before the appellate courts had all taken their sides. If this reasoning prevails, then the Ninth Circuit will be have the last word on the subject for several years to come.

Even if this proves not to be the case, and the Supreme Court upholds Prop 8, there’s still plenty of fight left. There are three ways to amend the California Constitution: through the initiative process (California can easily get another proposition on the ballot to negate Prop 8), via a two-thirds vote of the state Legislature, or by calling a constitutional convention (something that’s long overdue as it is). If California conservatives can game the system, then so can progressives. And now the progressives, having been robbed of a civil right, have more motivation.

Presidential Election Prediction

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:39:00 -0800

It’s election time and time for me to make a prediction on how the Electoral College is going to go. After much thought, here it is:

I have Obama winning 314-224 over McCain.

He holds all of Kerry’s states and picks up Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Nevada, and a surprise victory in Montana. Notably, I do not have him winning either Florida or Missouri because I just have a feeling that both are going to go, just barely, for McCain.

Tonight could easily turn into a blowout for Obama if turnout is huge. He can potentially win Florida, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, and one of Nebraska’s electoral votes, putting him at a celing of 379-159. I can’t see him getting much higher than that.

Tonight is going to be EPIC

Fuck yes

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:37:23 -0700

Fuck yes

What my nightly procrastination produced tonight. Download your...

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:13:23 -0700

What my nightly procrastination produced tonight.

Download your own here

Who’s #1? UCSB! Go Gauchos! (I spent 7 hours yelling into...

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:22:00 -0700

Who’s #1? UCSB! Go Gauchos!

(I spent 7 hours yelling into a bullhorn getting people to register to vote on Monday. And now we get a free Death Cab for Cutie and a free Decemberists for winning both number and percentage registered. Suck it Berkeley)

nickdouglas: Skip to 2:23 and just watch Wes Anderson’s...

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:27:19 -0700

nickdouglas:

Skip to 2:23 and just watch Wes Anderson’s political ad for John McCain.

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datn: The HBO Presidential Debate (from The Onion)

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:02:32 -0700

datn:

The HBO Presidential Debate (from The Onion)

"We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the..."

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:56:37 -0700

“We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.”

- The New Yorker endorses Obama.

Unsurprising, but beautifully written.

wow, just wow.

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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:52:13 -0700

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I <3 Barney Frank

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:39:30 -0700

I <3 Barney Frank

bullshit:

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:21:40 -0700

bullshit:

Free Three 6 Mafia concert last night on the plaza. Love UCSB!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:17:17 -0700

Free Three 6 Mafia concert last night on the plaza. Love UCSB!

obama08: alicia: (via thillythenny) This is a very lovely...

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:10:26 -0700

obama08:

alicia:

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This is a very lovely design.

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:31:29 -0700

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

Me at INVESCO Field last night for the nomination of Barack...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:52:04 -0700

Me at INVESCO Field last night for the nomination of Barack Obama for President. Amazing night

nickdouglas: via tylercoates, it’s a chemical party. God I wish...

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:14:38 -0700

nickdouglas:

via tylercoates, it’s a chemical party. God I wish I’d seen this in time to post to BuzzFeed.

bullshit: Billboard in Minneapolis for the RNC

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:50:04 -0700

bullshit:

Billboard in Minneapolis for the RNC

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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:08:13 -0700

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smaran: An anthropological introduction to YouTube A really...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:52:24 -0700

smaran:

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

A really interesting hour-long presentation on YouTube, user-generated content and social media at the U.S. Library of Congress by an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology from Kansas State University. More here.
Thanks, Chris!