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The Last Two Things I Hope I Ever Have to Say about Sarah Palin

1.  Republicans, if you ran a vice-presidential candidate who you knew did not know which countries participated in NAFTA, you truly did not put the needs of your country first.  Shame on you.
2.  Media, agreeing to keep off the record until after the election that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was not a [...]

I Forgot about Bredesen

Oh, Tennessee Democrats, I forgot the biggest reason we lost so big yesterday: Our Governor.
Shall we recount how, in a time of extreme financial crisis in the state, he decided to add an underground party bunker to the Governor’s mansion?  Or how some of the people he threw off TennCare died as a result of [...]

I Need a Man

So, it took me an hour and a half to walk to the Charleston Market from my hotel and fifteen, maybe twenty minutes to walk back.  In other words, I got very, very lost.  But the University of Charleston is quite lovely this time of year, let me tell you.  And I was having fun [...]

On Gay Marriage

When President Obama was born, his parents’ marriage was illegal in many states.
Tides turn.

In Which I Take a Moment to Deliver Some Harsh Truth to the State Democrats

The Republicans now control the state House in Tennessee for the first time since Reconstruction.  I agree with Braisted that there’s a kind of rightness to it (though I think what I’m about to say next he’s not going to agree with).
The State Democrats deserved to lose.
Let’s count the big ways.
I.  State Democrats appear to [...]