A Cry for Help

I would so love to go see this. But alas, i’ve got too many commitments this week; Modest Mouse tonight at Radio City, Pedro the Lion tomorrow night and Steven Wright on thursday. I hope this happens and get videotaped, and then winds up on the internets.

Today, President Bush said “We’ve worked hard and gained many new friends, and the result is now clear: a record voter turnout, and a broad nationwide victory.”
Good to know that we northeasterners aren’t considered part of the nation. Or the Upper Midwest. Ditto for the West Coast. And but for 150,000 Ohio voters, this election [...]

John Kerry concedes. I’m a little surprised, given the dim glimmer of hope they were holding on to in Ohio. Let the recriminations begin, and oh will it be nasty.
I got an email from the RI Politics listserv with the subject line “GWB = God Wishes Bush”. Another one said “Now we can safely bomb [...]

So I woke up early this morning and decided to roll out and vote. I headed over to Oaklawn school because I never legally changed by address from Cranston to Warwick. Coffee in hand I strolled in, saw no line, gave my name and was promptly told that I wasn’t on the list. [...]

Keep your eyes on these important states at their appointed hours:
8pm EST: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida (both time zones), Missouri, and Ohio
9pm EST: Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, and of course, Rhode Island
It should be all but over if they can call winners in those states, but at 10pm EST polls will [...]

I just voted in Warwick, and man did that feel goooood. This was the first time I’ve voted in person, so I can’t compare turnout. There was a small line that moved pretty quickly. I can’t believe some of the lines they are showing on TV.
Steve at AI is blogging for the Jimmy Fund, so [...]

I just finalized my ballot. There are seven races on my card, from President down to school board. I voted for two Democrats, a Republican, a Green, an Independent and a Red Sox DH. How’s that for splitting your ticket? The school board was non-partisan (hey ‘wicks, vote Lucy Mota-Costa). Also I’m approving 9 out [...]

Flipping through the public access section of the cable lineup last night, Em stopped on some sort of RIC student forum thingy, run by two students, talking with a crowd of students. They were discussing the election (poorly) and one young woman in the crowd asked a question that I thought I misheard. I thought [...]

…the Superbowl!!
The outcome of the last Washington Redskins game before an election has correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential race every time since football came to the capital city, going all the way back to 1936. If the ’skins win, the incumbent party wins. Well, Green Bay put Washington away this afternoon, presaging an [...]

The Providence Journal editorial board lays further waste to its long tradition of Yankee Republicanism by endorsing George W Bush for president again. As they say, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Of course, the man they prefer to lead our nation can’t quite get a handle on that [...]

Osama bin Laden, not dead despite the president’s assertion that we’d get him, dead or alive, released a new tape recently to laugh in our collective faces. Amazingly enough, the mastermind behind the murder of 3,000 Americans in the worst attack in this country’s history, is not only alive and well, he’s got time to [...]

Putting a momentary dent in the beauty and wonder that is the first morning of the Red Sox World Championship Era, Curt Schilling this morning wrapped up an interview on some morning show with this: “Remember to vote on November 2nd, and vote Bush.”
I’m disappointed, but not surprised. This is a guy who believes God [...]