There. Now I’ve fulfilled my moral obligation. Or perhaps I’ve only condemned myself to the hottest places in hell. David Weinberger today linked to Jonathan Alford’s Salon piece Looking for votes, finding America and quoted this excerpt describing the undecided voters: It is easy to be dismissive of undecided voters. Who are these people? How […]
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I’m undecided
October 8th, 2004 · 5 Comments
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The land of the dead
September 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Earlier this week, the girls and I read Tut’s Mummy by Judy Donnelly, a story of Tutankhamen’s funeral and Howard Carter’s 1922 discovery of the tomb. Abigail and Michaela seemed to like it and asked me to read it again and again. I was a bit perplexed by their fascination, but then I remembered how […]
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Hurricane watching
September 29th, 2004 · Comments Off on Hurricane watching
With the recent hurricanes, I’ve been watching bloggers who live in the affected areas. I’m glad Rod K. is okay. It all must be taking a toll. Yesterday he wrote Are we done yet?: I was more resigned this time around. It was more like, go ahead and do whatever you’re going to do, rather […]
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The Living Room Candidate
September 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Through the library’s list of hot links, I found The Living Room Candidate: a collection of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2004. Tonight I had fun watching a few from 1960, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1992 and 2004. Highlights included seeing Mamie Eisenhower campaigning for Nixon, quoting Ike’s belief that Four years isn’t enough time. […]
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Backyard Bloggers at The Seattle Times
September 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
It’s a sign of how busy this week has been that it has taken me days to check out what The Seattle Times advertised on the front page of Sunday’s paper. In the meantime J.D. Lasica and others have linked to the paper’s new blog titled Backyard Bloggers Welcome to Backyard Blog, our group online […]
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