The Sunshine Empire

One of the top five bands in the world Air performing one of my favorite tunes of theirs. La Femme d’Argent.

I can time it to when it happened. Saturday evening after the Florida-Vanderbilt game. I’ve hit the political doldrums. I don’t know what to do. Even our operative Just-Will said to me today that things are slow without the election. The Onion has done stories about the empty lives of Obama campaign volunteers without change [...]

Hat tip to Jolemite for this one, because I could not help but re-post it. Our friends in PDX show their pride in our great country.

With all the states now decided we can pretty much evaluate our predictions from Sunday. Of our 50 predictions state by state we only got two wrong. On North Carolina I said, “but I think in the end it moves by inches into the McCain column.” I was right at least about the inches. On [...]

There is much politics to be talked about even in the aftermath of the historic results from the 2008 Unites States Presidential election. The pictures of the parties occurring around the world gives one the understanding of what a blessing it is to live in this place and this time. Regardless of your political and [...]

In the run up to the elections, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted of felony corruption. He did not step aside and continued his race against Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. Not many outside of Stevens election headquarters thought it possible that Stevens would survive the election. When it was starting to look like the McCain-Palin [...]

I’ll have more later, and I was unable to continue blogging after the night progressed, but one thing came to mind last night. In 1901 Senator McCain’s and my hero Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner, and was scorned greatly for doing so. Now an African American will be [...]