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...This is just a close election. It's time for America to take a deep, cleansing breath, even an audible Al Gore sigh or two. After that, let's all halve our coffee consumption, put the histrionics in a lockbox and take the time we need to try to ameliorate the unsatisfying results from a questionable ballot that has rendered Florida's 25 electoral votes fuzzy...
...Rich read from her book Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998, the renowned poet and feminist captured her audience so completely that loud expulsions of breath could be heard following each set of verses...
Many of the wisest Americans have muttered under their breath that if Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins this election, they would move to Canada. Alas! Elections seem to be a political contagion. Canada herself is now caught in furious political debate that will culminate on Nov. 27 with the choice of a new Prime Minister. If you are planning on becoming a political refugee, I encourage you to take a close look at the passionately political country that you'd be fleeing to. The move, I think, would be more of a culture shock than many would believe...
...whomever Main Street chooses, Wall Street will get along. There was a winter-spring rally due anyway, at which point the markets and the economy have to take a deep breath and figure out what they're going to do next. But with eight years of boom in the rearview, it's a good bet that the next four will be host to some rocky sailing. Set aside the worst-case scenarios - Bush, dispensing tax breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human...
...even if you give journalists the facts, they're often reluctant to go with them. When I was on the other side, I was constantly saying under my breath to reporters, "Make a judgment." Being committed to some he-said-she-said idea of "objectivity" often makes a journalist a neutral vessel of distortion. Correcting a candidate's mistake is not subjective; it's objective. At the same time, I noticed that people in politics tend to think journalists are biased toward one candidate or another. This is a deep misconception, which leads to Rule...