Obsessive-compulsive note here - I began this post some time on Friday, then got distracted. I discovered it on Wednesday and figure I’ll try and complete the thought five days later.
Yeah, I’m completely biased, but I’ll be damned if that Democratic convention didn’t have me wanting to go look for an all-night voting booth or [...]
I’ve been telling myself for months that I should write a post about why I support Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. And I think that what it comes down to is that over the last ten years or so, I have become deeply pessimistic about the present state of American democracy but almost equally optimistic about [...]
OK, starting tomorrow you’re probably gonna be stuck with a few days of REM blogging. But before I do, let me make a comment about one particular criticism in the Democratic presidential primary. The Clinton campaign apparently criticized Obama for calling himself a “law professor” when he was not a tenured faculty member and his [...]
Bill Clinton apparently takes issue with a Barack Obama ad in which he says “I don’t want to spend the next year, or the next four years, re-fighting the same fights we had in the 1990s.” Clinton responded, “what fights should we not have made?”
Well, I think it would have been nice if we could [...]
I don’t have a great many comments about the presidential primary at the moment. Maybe I will when Iowa finally settles on a date. I’m in a state now of expecting something to happen to shake up the narrative and dreading the possibility that nothing does. The major development that I’ve been running over [...]
There’s a great post-mortem discussion of the 8th District Council race over at Young Philly Politics. One of the blog’s founders is the son of one of the three candidates who challenged the incumbent; he came in a very close third and the incumbent was re-elected. The discussion thread also includes some thoughts about the [...]
Boy, when I said it was gonna be an interesting two weeks, I wasn’t kidding, was I?
Michael Nutter has become the clear front-runner in the mayoral primary. You can read some of Chris Bowers’ thoughts on that over at MyDD; Chris’s ward is one of those endorsing Nutter, so you can get a sense of [...]
For the past several months, I’ve been trying to be more consistent about the whole physical activity thing. Although I like to tell myself that it’s primarily about setting a good example for Alex and being proactive about my health and disease prevention, I do admit that it’s, at least to some degree, about how [...]
I’m not sure if I’m linking to this post at The Next Mayor blog more because there are new polling numbers, or because of the Highlander references.
Looks like Nutter is moving up. If that gets confirmed, it could throw a monkeywrench into my tactical voting calculations. Gonna be an interesting two weeks or so.
A quick follow-up to my earlier post which cited stats on the continuing wage gap between men and women, the Associated Press has an article citing a study which shows that the wage gap between equally qualified male and female college-educated workers is evident as early as one year after college and continues to widen [...]