JordanCornblog on January 18th, 2009

How refreshing to write a headline focused on the letter P and not have Sarah Palin come to mind (except as an after thought, just now — like a toothache remembered).
So these are heady, miraculous times.  The Hudson River miracle jet has been fished out of the water and Obama is in DC and will [...]

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JordanCornblog on January 9th, 2009

You’ll need ‘em after reading the piece that appeared in Salon yesterday – an overview and accounting of the damage wrought by Bush et al in their years in DC.  It begins:

After a couple of presidential terms, mismanagement in every area of policy — foreign, domestic, even extraterrestrial — starts to add up. When George [...]

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JordanCornblog on August 30th, 2008

Oh boy, Sarah Palin.  Where to begin?  There is so much to explore and highlight and, yes, ridicule, about this choice.
When I first heard McCain’s selection, yesterday afternoon, I immediately Googled her, like millions of other Americans, I’m sure.  Wikipedia, as expected, was at the top of the search results.  I clicked on her entry, [...]

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JordanCornblog on June 4th, 2008

Even before Barack Obama had clinched the nomination, the crazy e-mails were circulating. They are like a virus infecting the body politic. How people fall for this stuff is beyond me. Below is a friend’s response to one such hateful and deluded e-mail … with the actual, original e-mail following at the bottom of the [...]

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JordanCornblog on May 7th, 2008

… but NC wants Barack more (and Indiana almost did, too). I read this morning that Hillary has cancelled all public events today. At the very least, that says she is not wanting to confront the inevitable questions about what she is going to do now.
On a personal level, this has got to be devastating. [...]

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