History

Full recap of the evening to come later…

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Link List

Here’s a few things to keep you entertained while I try to get through The Division of Labor in Society and conjugate regular -ir verbs.

Everyday Sociology Blog has a good post about the difference between journalism and sociology. I had a conversation with Steven about how grad school was treating him where admitted that he [...]

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Veep review #2

Palin’s debate strategy was dog-whistle white rural populism. Pure and simple Nixon playbook. Worked for him, worked for Reagan (Philadelphia and the welfare queens, set in the context of a long, racist record.) Race is significant but it isn’t everything: Bush Sr. could pull off the racism but couldn’t fake folksy [...]

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l33t ism

pwned!
Once again the media reminds us that Democratic oligarchs feed on the bones of peasant babies.  This time, it’s Jon Decker of Reuters speaking on MSNBC:
“For Joe Biden, I — you know, not that he’s not folksy, but I don’t think it helps his case when he’s making the argument on economic issues wearing French [...]

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Or maybe it was an inside joke

I’m probably giving Obama’s people too much credit, but I took the timing of the text message as a belated jab at the “3 AM” ad. Although, not as good as this one:

What most people know about Biden is that he’s solid on foreign affairs and never shuts up [...]

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barack is not your new bicycle, but rather shitfaced BFF

There are apparently two kinds of people who send you texts at 3 am: drunkards and presidential candidates.

That being said, I can live with this choice.

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