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jss @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
… on New Hampshire. The only big losers were the pollsters and anyone who listened to them and pronounced Hillary Clinton D.O.A. Among the latter would be me, just a little, though I specifically said I didn’t think a loss would kill her candidacy. But I took a wild-assed guess, based on everything I was [...]
jss @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m heartily sick, already, of the political opinions of:
Anyone who thinks that Hillary Clinton’s tiny show of emotion was other than honest.
Anyone who thinks the Democratic nominating process is, for practical purposes, over, as soon as the votes are counted in New Hampshire.
Anyone who acts or speaks as though “change” is a new political concept.
That’s [...]
jss @ January 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I really want to believe in the brand new conventional wisdom, which is that Barak Obama has made activists and voters out of a new generation of Americans. I want to believe this even though I haven’t made up my mind whom I want, myself, to be the next president of the United States. I [...]
jss @ January 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It is predictably the fashion right now, everywhere except for Iowa, to decry the influence that Iowans have in choosing the next president of the United States. And that’s just wrong of us. My brother is, through no real fault of his own, an Iowan; and what’s more, I have seen “The Music Man” [...]
jss @ December 28, 2007 # 2 Comments
(With apologies to Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, at the very least. I mean, I may have a lot of apologizing to do for this, but sometimes I just can’t help myself.)
(Meant to be sung and spoken to the tune of “Cover of the Rolling Stone”)
(And, for those who wouldn’t know, [...]
jss @ December 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
… in the telecommunications industry for a number of years … it was a great gig for a while, when I was running web sites for the “little” phone company in Connecticut, SNET. SNET was eaten by SBC shortly after I got there. They left us alone for a while, Connecticut not being especially noticeable [...]
