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Post-Election Miscellany
Nov. 8th, 2008 02:05 pmI'm still in a state of delirium and will probably post something about What It Means to Me eventually, long after everyone has gotten bored with it.
Meanwhile, here is a selection of really astute comments from my flist for November 5:
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cleolinda: "I don't think I had realized until that moment how much I had lost over the last eight years, until the moment that I got it back [...] It's not over. One election doesn't solve anything--no matter who you elect, that candidate still has to live up to his promise. No matter what change you want, you have to get out there and make it yourself. But for the first time in a very long time, it felt like the country had opened its eyes again and remembered its name."
Fromswan_tower: "Many of you are no doubt making one of two transitions: either you're cautiously venturing back onto the Internet, having temporarily exiled yourself to avoid all the political talk, or you're trying to fill the empty hours now that you no longer need to obsessively check all your favorite political websites."
Fromblackholly: "As Gavin just said, 'it's like living in the future that I want to be in.' " And from uzu_uzu in blackholly's comments: "We finally hit PLAY on the big future machine."
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pepysdiary (November 5, 1665): "I heard the Duke of Albemarle's chaplin make a simple sermon: among other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried: 'All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man'; which, God knows, is not the fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing."
And for the fun of it:
Fromelainetyger: "Incidentally, the Empire State Building was red on 2 sides and blue on 2 sides yesterday, and was blue all around today."
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The NY Times always publishes an "electoral trends" map after the voting is done, showing which counties voted more Democrat or more Republican than last time.
( Trends and other election stuff )
Meanwhile, here is a selection of really astute comments from my flist for November 5:
From
cleolinda: "I don't think I had realized until that moment how much I had lost over the last eight years, until the moment that I got it back [...] It's not over. One election doesn't solve anything--no matter who you elect, that candidate still has to live up to his promise. No matter what change you want, you have to get out there and make it yourself. But for the first time in a very long time, it felt like the country had opened its eyes again and remembered its name."From
swan_tower: "Many of you are no doubt making one of two transitions: either you're cautiously venturing back onto the Internet, having temporarily exiled yourself to avoid all the political talk, or you're trying to fill the empty hours now that you no longer need to obsessively check all your favorite political websites."From
blackholly: "As Gavin just said, 'it's like living in the future that I want to be in.' " And from uzu_uzu in blackholly's comments: "We finally hit PLAY on the big future machine."From
pepysdiary (November 5, 1665): "I heard the Duke of Albemarle's chaplin make a simple sermon: among other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried: 'All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man'; which, God knows, is not the fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing."And for the fun of it:
From
elainetyger: "Incidentally, the Empire State Building was red on 2 sides and blue on 2 sides yesterday, and was blue all around today."* * * *
The NY Times always publishes an "electoral trends" map after the voting is done, showing which counties voted more Democrat or more Republican than last time.
( Trends and other election stuff )
