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Election Night had the feeling of Living In the Middle of History. Exciting to think “Good Grief, the Dems are really pulling it off?!” Montana and Virginia pulled through for Democrats in the senate races. The Founding Fathers’ checks and balances (and compromises) may prove victorious – and an end to one-party rule in this [...]

As of the hour I write this, the polls in NY are still open until 9pm – if you haven’t voted, go vote! I did vote, but at least two areas of voting in which I was not terribly happy. Oh well. At least see what tonight will bring! Poking around Time’s special Midterm Blog [...]

The election starts in about 3 hours. I’m going to be a pessimist and say that the Dems will only tie in the Senate, while sweeping the House. Much of the recent political momentum is due to videos published on YouTube, which was recently cited by Time magazine as the Invention of the year. This [...]

Last Thursday night – the bunch of us went to Max Brenner, between 13th and 14th Street on B’way in Manhattan – best known for chocolate. Mmm, chocolate. The food was pretty good – I had the three cheese sandwich as an entre – delicious and portions were good – leaving enough room in that [...]

What Would Alex P. Keaton Do? Apparently someone asked Michael J. Fox that question: After a nearly 20-year absence, Nixon-loving, Reagan-worshipping Alex P. Keaton is again slinging his political views on television. Michael J. Fox, who played the conservative teen on the 1980s sitcom “Family Ties,” says that if the right-wing, tie-wearing Keaton were a [...]

This whole John Kerry Bad Joke news story is, in my mind, a little overblown. Just a little. I’m not terribly in favor of Senator Kerry these days, and then President Bush’s demand for an apology, and Kerry’s slow apology to the troops – well, it was too much 2004 redux. Really. Aren’t we supposed [...]