Irregularities

February 05, 2008

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Swellville is one of only four towns in our entire crazy-liberal state that consistently votes Republican (gotta to protect those capital gains, don’t you know).

The first time T and I voted here we were a little taken aback by the setup. The polling place (really it’s the elementary school...

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Mystery candidate revealed

January 30, 2008

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Them:

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wednesday, January 30, 2008—9:23 AM ET
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John Edwards to Drop Out of Presidential Race

John Edwards is ending his bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination after failing to win any of the nominating contests so far, according to his...

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Blue (State) Hawaii

January 06, 2008

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My kids—who behave as if they are political veterans after we dragged them up to N.H. three years ago to hold signs for Kerry—have both commented separately in the last week on how quiet I’m being about the election this time around.

It’s true, I’m pretty sanquine. Or maybe it’s just cynicism:...

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Listmania!

December 10, 2007

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1). Like every other publication this time of year, the New York Times is full of lists (stories, as T and I like to say, that write themselves, leaving busy reporters free to shop and cook and decorate like the rest of us).

I have to confess, my heart was in my mouth when I saw The 53 Places...

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Monkey in the middle

November 18, 2007

Filed in: The Way We Live Now

Know how sometimes you’re blinded to your own bad habits until you see them reflected in someone else?

How, say, you’ll be driving somewhere with your teenaged son sitting next to you chewing up the inside of his cheek till it bleeds, and you’ll go, oh God, I know where he got that from? Or at...

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