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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Synchronized Presidential Debates
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Thanks, William, for the heads-up.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
How McCain Lost His Media Base
Recently I wrote about how the McCain campaign felt like it was being treated unfairly by the press. There I mentioned how prior to the GOP Convention, McCain was actually getting proportionally more positive coverage than Obama. Politico has written a story about how since the Convention, McCain has clearly “hosed in the press.”
The Project […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Dave’s Top Ten
I hate to spread the hate, but I was just watching the latest Top Ten list from the Late Show with David Letterman, and it was pretty funny. Here it is:
Top Ten Sarah Palin Excuses For Spending $150,000 On Clothes
The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick, Prada shoes, a Gucci handbag, […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Defining Moment
Only one week to go. I can’t wait for change.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
McCain’s Shaky Performance
For the past few days, I have suffered from presidential election writer’s block. Actually, it’s not that I couldn’t think of anything to write, but there was nothing that interesting or novel to say that warranted a post. Nevertheless, today I finally decided to get my act together and write a few lines about some […]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Podcasts
After about a month and a half, I have only reached 1918 in Morocco Since 1830. That’s pretty slow, especially considering that I had been averaging about one book per week. So what’s going? The culprit is this darn election and me resorting to a combination of podcasts and other online sources of media. What […]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Wassup 2008
Thanks, Sanjeev, for the heads up on this one.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
With God’s Blessing, inshallah
In Arabic, all statements about the future are tempered by adding the phrase inshallah, meaning “God willing”. This comes from the Muslim precept that only God knows and determines the future; and therefore, it is a sign of arrogance and blasphemy to speak of the future without conditioning it on God’s will. Examples would include: […]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
20th Century Rhetoric for the 21st Century
As an American living in Europe where the root word “social” is considered a democratic value, I often tell people about how growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s and 80s we were taught to fear all things “social” as dangerous manifestations of Soviet communism. Being called a “commie” or a “socialist” was an […]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Dans le sud de la France
I took a two day petit séjour from my election obsession to go to Hyères in the south of France for my first authentic French wedding . On Friday afternoon, we took the train from Paris to Zizou’s hometown, Marseille. On the train, believe it or not, I dreamt that I was writing a detailed […]
