one voices

i’ve found these very helpful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mpbgFSPXXA

New York Times’ Paul Krugman article
Wall Street Journal article

a friend just sent me this:
PBS is doing one of those instant online polls to ask “America” if they think Sarah Palin is fit to be Vice President.
The GOP has launched a successful all out blitz to get Republicans to go on the site and click “Yes”. As a result right now it looks like [...]

i met some colleagues from other countries and noticed that i introduced myself like this: “hi, i’m a professor.”
to which my foreign colleagues replied, “hi, i work at a university.”
big difference.

any registered voter may vote as an absentee.
a person must be registered to vote in order to cast an absentee ballot
here is a great site for get everything you’ll need in just a few minutes.
i can think of two compelling reasons to vote as an absentee:
One:
this article suggests that ‘racial misgivings’ in the minds of [...]

What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen — paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It’s a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ca8reYEfQ

i am deeply saddened.

it is something close to me.” hiro yamagata
i think i completely mis-understood this quote when i just read it on yamagata’s site. i took him to mean that nature is, literally, and simply, whatever is close to him at any moment. that idea blew my mind because it suggest that the understanding [...]

McCain and his crew are brilliant strategists. Palin has become a national fascination, how couldn’t she be? All the questions, all the resulting “huh?” from trying to parse her record with her story.
With no resolution or concrete understanding in sight, the din of the resonating media feedback loop she’s in the [...]

Maine TV/McCain Interview
Reporter does a fine job interviewing John McCain, follow the link, please.
For some additional analysis, see this.