Oh, and by the way,
YAY, NORTH CAROLINA!!!
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Nov 06, 2008 8:30:58 am PST #9749 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Jessica - Nov 06, 2008 8:31:07 am PST #9750 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Especially when you work from home!
Hee - good point.
lisah - Nov 06, 2008 8:34:14 am PST #9751 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
So, my the Sun just responded to my complaint about them running old Doonesbury strips with this:
Sorry for the inconvenience. Doonesbury will be back tomorrow. We chose not to run the strip earlier this week to be fair in the days preceding Election Day. It should have returned Wednesday... My apologies.
What does that mean "to be fair in the days preceding Election Day" ??? They already run it on the Editorial page.
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 8:35:12 am PST #9752 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
Kathy A - Nov 06, 2008 8:35:21 am PST #9753 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of Obama, my manager at B&N (the one whose BIL is a Secret Service agent on Michelle's detail) said that his BIL was going to try and get him and his family a photo-shoot meet-n-greet with Obama! Nothing definite yet, but he's keeping his fingers crossed.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 8:39:35 am PST #9754 of 10001
brillig
Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency
I saw his strip yesterday announcing Obama and thought he'd submitted two different ones, just in case. I didn't knew he'd decided to roll the dice.
lisah - Nov 06, 2008 8:40:53 am PST #9755 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
No, I know. That's what prompted me to write. And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."
Strega - Nov 06, 2008 8:44:35 am PST #9756 of 10001
No, that's not President Bush's approval rating. It's the number of counties that voted more Republican than in 2004.
Looking at the actual numbers on NYT map makes that Daily Kos map seem .... silly. Florida went from 52% Republican in 2004 to 48% in 2008. Idaho went from 68% to 62%. Nebraska went from 66% to 57%. If this makes the Republicans a regional party, what are the Democrats?
Actually, a cursory check suggests they're using 2004 as the baseline because that's the high water mark for the GOP.
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 8:46:05 am PST #9757 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."
Okay, never mind. That's crack.
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 8:47:36 am PST #9758 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Admendment #1 which made English the only language to be used in state communications I lost. It when 93/7 for in my county. Now you can't even have state Internet websites or forums in any language other than English. Boo.
I lost on a couple other propositions as well. Oh well.
Gud, I voted against Amendment #1, but I knew it would lose.
I voted for light rail too (year and a half in KC without a car REALLY changed my perspective) but not too surprised it lost. Again. And again. Le sigh.
Everything else went the way I voted.
And let me say, I hated judges on the ballot. I thought I'd educated myself pretty well, but I knew NOTHING about the judges. They don't even put their party affiliation, if any, on the ballot.