Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 10th, 2008
It’s 3:02 a.m.
I am finally catching up after my week away from these primary elections, but I think I am finally up-to-date — Super Delegates and all. It looks like it’s impossible that Hillary can mathematically win these elections, even if she convinces Americans that (i) it’s wrong to be racist but okay to fear anything remotely […]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Spanish Elections: Not My Country
The Spanish Presidential Elections are/were today, and it looks like Zapatero and his PSOE Party have won. In other words, Dumb has just beat Dumber. Normally I would care — I do enjoy elections — but it has simply been an incredibly boring campaign with almost no interesting options or political arguments. Just look at […]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Don’t Call It a Comeback!
Don’t call it a comeback because it ain’t one. Since Super Tuesday, everyone had predicted that Obama would win a bunch of states up until March 4th, and then Hillary would win Texas and Ohio. And guess what? She did exactly what everyone thought she would do all along. While there was obviously no “comeback” […]
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Rocky World
One of my favorite non-Jazz albums is For the Beauty of Wynona by Daniel Lanois, and one of my favorite songs from that album is “Rocky World”. While driving through Lanzarote’s lava stained terrain, I kept thinking of that particular Daniel Lanois song. As is often so often the case, I […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
In Lanzarote
I am taking a short break from WiFi and the Elections, and I am spending a few days in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Hillary will continue to complain and undermine her party while Obama and Super Tuesday Part II will just have to wait. I am on vacation.
