Daily Archives: 08/30/2008

Why women Dems will vote for Palin

I received an email today from a disaffected Hillary fan who plans to vote for McCain come November. I am a died-in-the-wool Democrat, but when Obama turned his ass to Hillary and called her “sweetie,” I didn’t know what to … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin’s Battlestar Galactica ties

Jonathan Last points out the Battlestar Galactica angle on the Republican slate: Watching Palin’s introduction it became immediately clear that she looks uncannily like a young Laura Roslin.* This can only bode well for Palin. But the parallels don’t stop … Continue reading

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Movable me

Rats. Just when I finally found the issue that gets people commenting (it is apparently politics, and not Israel or even—sigh—my enthralling cat and life posts), I have to do things like, gee, move. I’m off for the entire next … Continue reading

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