Revenge of the nerds

SCIENCE!
“President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next Energy Secretary, Democratic sources said today. He also has picked veteran regulators to fill out his environmental and climate team…
…The son of highly educated Chinese immigrants, Chu won the Nobel Prize in 1997 [...]

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It’s the little things

Two quick takes off the New York Times this morning:
“Barack Obama plans to use his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, at his inauguration.”
And…
“For the first time, a gay and lesbian band will be marching in a presidential inauguration.
Barack Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee has chosen the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, with members from across the [...]

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Obama and the workers

Since 1965, the Republic Windows and Doors Company has been manufacturing vinyl windows and sliding doors in Chicago.  Last week, Bank of America informed the company that its line of credit had been canceled due to declining sales, probably related to the housing market collapse.  Republic’s management subsequently informed its 250 employees that they were [...]

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All the Obamas in the house, throw your hands up

Johnson, Buchanan, Ford.  These are Presidential names.  Not so much “Obama.”  Database searches suggest there are less than 20 Obama families in the United States, compared to more than 10,000 Clintons and 60,000 Bushes.  The election has granted this handful of mini-celebrities a new set of privileges:
Nicanor Obama began to realize he might be on [...]

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The Obama effect

For months we heard rumours that Obama was some kind of closet Panther, hiding his afro pick while plotting revolution.  Starting around 11 PM on November 4, the same people who made these claims suddenly decided he was actually a center-rightist, that his victory reflected America’s inherant conservatism.
Obviously, this put actual black nationalists in a [...]

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The zeitgeist

If McCain had won, would be see anything like this?  And they sell t-shirts too!
Awesome!

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Because you deserved something substantial *updated*

Election Day comedown has led to a series of flippant victory / schadenfreude / “woo, us!” posts in a row. But I know you rely on (us / other blog) for substantial, in-depth analysis of actual issues, so I figured it’s time for some of that.
MEMO
To: Howard Dean
From: James Carville, Terry McAuliffe, [...]

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The right stays classy

This is how National Review describes a completely voluntary call to national service:

Friday, November 07, 2008
Arbeit Macht Frei [John Derbyshire]
Corvée labor, a/k/a “community service.”
Those of us over 55 are not excluded, I see. Shall we have to build our own camps, I wonder, like zeks?
11/07 01:26 PM

For those of you who don’t get the [...]

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Congratulations from Bulgaria

The Sofia News Agency reports:
“In a rare move, the majority and the opposition in the Bulgarian Parliament united Wednesday around the opinion that the election of the first US African-American President, Democrat Barack Obama is a symbol of change and proof that America remains a truly democratic country.”
The Chairman of the leading opposition party said:  [...]

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Approximating a summary

“Somewhere in the universe, a gear in the machinery shifted.”
-Eldridge Cleaver on Rosa Parks
I haven’t Cleaver’s way with words, so I hope you’ll forgive my reducing history to one man’s personal narrative of 12 hours of chaos.  At best, this will fade into the millions of personal sketches that comprise the people’s history hiding behind [...]

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