Recordnet.com: Choice is clear: Obama for president
Stockton Record. Yes, I know. Not one of the big fish, but this is the first time the Record has endorsed a Democrat since Roosevelt in 1936.
September 29, 2008
Marty Kaplan: Why the Debates Won’t Matter (Hint: It’s a Felony)
Marty Kaplan: Why the Debates Won't Matter (Hint: It's a Felony)
Troubling. Is someone tracking down truth and lies on this?
September 28, 2008
Election Pie Party
The younger niblet is far away. (His mom and dad miss him.)
We talked with him today over a spotty line that probably is Skype’d over to that end of the world and then fed into his cell phone/Handy. Who knows who taps in from here (Hi, Tony!) or there (Hi to you too, Yuri!)
The younger nib said he’s hoping to have a party. Where he is is ten hours off from us. If we call him at ten in the morning, it’s eight in the evening there.
So, he’s planning a party to watch the election results in November at another PCV’s place. This PCV has access to a big screen TV. Our niblet is homesick for pies. The plan is to get pies made and brought over, to sit in front of the big screen TV and to watch the American election results and hooray! or commiserate over the results.
Pie will be involved, though. No matter if the wrong party wins and the world comes to an end, the niblet will have pies and the companionship of friends.
I think that works.
[SNL] Sarah Palin’s Interview with Katie Couric
Tina Fey is a geeenyus.
And, oh, hey. That person doing her Katie Couric imitation isn’t half-bad either.
September 26, 2008
Anderson Cooper panel: McCain move called misstep
CNN video: McCain move called misstep
Ed Rollins, Gloria Borger, Paul Begala talk with Anderson Cooper.
Begala says, “Bush is a high-functioning moron.” Yikes.
But even Ed Rollins isn’t too fond of McCain, it seems.
Election 2008 | powered by Twitter
Election 2008 | powered by Twitter
For those who are easily amused. A Twitterfeed.
Twitter is pulling out all tweets that are election-related, mention Obama, McCain, Palin, &c.
The screen scrolls by with right, left, smart, not-so-smart, snarky, clever, clueless. Just like the American public, only in 140 characters or less.
September 22, 2008
Andrew Tobias – Money and Other Subjects
I’d forgotten how much I enjoy Tobias’ writing. He’s the guy who, writing about being financially conservative and saving $$$ years back, suggested buying toilet paper and tuna on sale and stashing them for later use.
Bright guy.
His Web site and blog: Andrew Tobias – Money and Other Subjects
September 21, 2008
September 18, 2008
An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans: Revised August 15, 2008
An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans: Revised August 15, 2008 — the Tax Policy Center
Deets [PDF]
Below is yet another tax plan analysis chart, this one from Freakanomics.
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This graph is weighted to show the percentage of tax revenue from each group and whether that percentage will rise or fall under each plan.
[via another tweet from Tim O’Reilly]
Tax Plans (that’s one for you, nineteen for me).
From Viveka Weiley at chartjunk, a rework of the McCain/Obama Tax Plans chart (that’s one for you, nineteen for me) showing the differences between the Republican and Democrat tax cut proposals.
This version of the chart weights the income brackets so a bracket with more tax payers is larger than a bracket with fewer tax payers.
Save that thought.