Concept: City View by Francesco Guardi
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Event: The Executive Branch is a Committee, with an Economic Example of Why it Matters.
Thesis: Stop thinking about whether they are likeable or not… there will be time enough for that later.
As much as the presidency is a person, it is also an institution, and we would more accurately make responsible decisions in presidential elections by thinking of the office as a very powerful and ideally coordinated committee, with the ballot in the chairmanship.
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Gloamane 25, 31.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
Event: Mississippi’s "Where’s Waldo" Ballot.
I wanted to write about this last week, but ran out of time.
In sum:
New York Times: Mississippi’s Ballot Trick.
Here’s a more local take on the issue:
Biloxi SunHerald: Dems respond to Barbour’s appeal in ballot dispute.
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Diary: September 2004.
This was one for the books.
On the day last weekend of August I held a Housecooling Party at my small studio in McKinley Park. I was almost one year from being married and (hopefully) grad school, and one of my best friends, Sam, was moving to Chicago to be my roommate.
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Gloamane 24, 31.
– What a goopy, grimy weekend. Oog. I had a cold and felt like crap the whole time. On Friday I tried to watch a documentary on the ocean, but I fell asleep before the end. On Saturday I finished the documentary and most of West Side Story, and visited with Evan and Anna for a bit, but then I felt too sick to make it out to Emma’s birthday party.
… Read the restEvent: Drama in Michigan
What do we make of this:
Michigan Messenger: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote.
Or this:
Michigan Messenger: Michiganders see red about voters’ rights threat
And this:
Detroit Free-Press: GOP Won’t Use Foreclosure List to Block Voters.
? ?
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Event: The Current Republican Thesis Is That We Won’t Mind Being Made Fools Of.
New York Times | Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies.
I hope we are not put in a position to see whether Krugman’s thesis that McCain/Palin would be worse than Bush/Cheney is true or not. However I am reminded of something I witnessed in college.
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Diary: September 1996.
On the last weekend before Labor Day Mitch and I borrowed my parents car to go camping at Warren Dunes State Park. For five dollars that year, one could camp on the parking lot (“ash-fault” the way Mitch said it), and so we pitched a tiny-dome tent and joined a sort-of weird community of St.
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Gloamane 21, 31.
– PLACE OF THE WEEK –
Mauritania.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Invent a figure of speech involving the word “dew” or “dewy”.