American Athens

It might not matter to anyone else, but Lee and I are ecstatic that Bernie Sanders is, according to Fox News (we’re gluttons for punishment), going to be the next Junior Senator from Vermont. As my history professor once said about Bernie, “Everyone in the House gets to eat lunch with someone. Everyone. Except Bernie. […]

Just in case you stumble upon this site before myDD, Chris Bowers put up some Senate numbers he’d heard. Here they are:
VA: Webb 52-47 Allen
RI: Whitehouse 53-46 Chafee
PA: Casey 57-42 Santorum
OH: Brown 57-43 DeWine
NJ: Menendez 52-45 Kean, Jr.
MT: Tester 53-46 Burns
MO: McCaskill 50-48 Talent
MD: Cardin 53-46 Steele
TN: Corker 51-48 Ford
AZ: Kyl 50-46 Pederson
So that […]

I have not been this excited for an election for as long as I can remember…I haven’t voted yet…I think I saw a 10-year-old holding a “No on 1″ sign in Cambridge this morning…Does he really care? Does anyone who doesn’t own a liquor store or live their life in fear really care? My boss […]

After all these many months, the moment of truth is fast approaching. After all the speeches, debates, ads and flyers, the candidates basically wait for the next 36 hours. There’s not much more they can do. Even those of us who’ve worked from inside or outside campaigns have only a few things we can do. […]

I’ve recently heard of a great program called Pie in the Sky, which is run though Boston’s Community Servings. The organization delivers food to clients who are homebound with a life threatening illness. Each pie goes for $25, and every pie sold is enough to feed a Community Servings client for one week. […]

The headline for this posting probably should be: Evangelicals Led By Hypocritical Homosexual Methhead Adulterer…
From the Associated Press:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A leading U.S. evangelist and outspoken opponent of gay marriage has given up his post as president of the National Association of Evangelicals while a church panel investigates allegations he repeatedly paid a […]

Mostly, this post is an excuse to lock down my claim to this title, which, one day, could turn into a rather amusing little article on the decreasing efficacy of the notion of traditional levels of analysis. Sure, there’re still First Image, Second Image, and Third Image readings of the world, but pace Waltz (1959) […]