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Recent elections had obliged by actually being close. But this time, the pundits had to speak in a subtle code, saying what they knew without saying what they knew. "Everybody check my math," Keith Olbermann asked the MSNBC panel, defying them to say which state could get McCain to 270 electoral votes. Liberal bastion California? Obama's home state, Hawaii? "You have a jeweler's eye," Chris Matthews told him slyly...
There's a rhythm to all this that you have to get used to. Most people in the country had heard him speak once, and it was at the 2004 Democratic Convention. So when he went to a meet and greet with voters, people expected to hear the convention speech. That took a little getting used to. During the primary season, at one of the labor cattle calls in D.C., he was the last [of nine candidates] to speak. There are about eight things that you're going to say to this group, and they've all now been said...
...Still, after leaving Billy to return to Harvard, I suffer from separation anxiety. From the sound of my cooing into the phone, I wouldn’t be surprised if my roommate was convinced I had a baby back home. Yeah, I’ll admit it, I do speak to Billy every now and again (although he never texts me back). After all, the end of our summer romance pretty much fit the typical archetype; we tearfully said our goodbyes, recalling the glorious summer months, and declared our intention to reunite one day in the (near) future...
Last night’s class benefitted from a more intimate set-up than usual, as Tod strolled around the Pub to speak with tables individually about the beers and the brewery. In past Beer School events, speakers have mostly rushed through several brews from the confines of the Pub stage...
...could argue that marriage equality has little to do with children, but Patterson seemed to speak to Californians' inchoate phobias about gays and kids. On the Friday before the Bee story appeared, a group of San Francisco first-graders was taken to city hall to see their lesbian teacher marry her partner. Apparently the field trip was a parent's idea - not the teacher's - but the optics of the event were terrible for the gay side. It seemed like so much indoctrination...