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The first polls to close around noon, in some district in New Hampshire with 21 registered voters, went to Obama. It was the first time this district voted Democrat since 1968.

Obama won Vermont, McCain Kentucky.

Michigan polls close in 6 minutes, I'm 95% positive Obama will win here.

Probably, knowing how the Kalamazoo Democratic Party works, they are worried about people assuming the election is won and not voting. I know here they are doing all day canvassing until election day to reach every person in the city to encourage people 1) to vote 2) to vote for Obama and other Demo...

Amen.

I don't have tv! Generally speaking I don't mind, but with the election approaching I'm missing out on everything. I heard about the SNL bit, that it was really great. I'll have to youtube it. With the internet I'm, um, not leeching. Mayor of Kzoo!? Oh lord, I'm outta this town in less than two year...

For the satire? Probably, I can understand people keeping upset about it. I'm not familiar with the situation, so I don't want to comment too much, but I think losing one's employment over satire is a little extreme. But then again, as they say in the film Ridicule , the first rule of witticism is t...

Happy 50th Paddington! http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/bohonato/paddington2.jpg Here's to a world where everything is better after getting rather sticky eating a jar of marmalade. Paddington Bear makes everything better, ever political discourse: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/bohonat...

I just got back from a VP debate party, where we all won playing the Sarah Palin drinking game! Take a shot when: She mentions Alaska, being a governor, being a mayor, having executive experience, being a mom, independent energy, clean coal, safe nuclear (ok, Biden was guilty with those two as well)...

I'm reread Notes and am in the middle of Crime and Punishment again. I would seriously learn Russian solely to read him. My father's side of the family is Russian, so I grew up around Dostoevsky and Tolstoi and the rest of them, but Dosty has always been my favourite. Though I think I should be mild...

I went to the local supermarket yesterday to pick up some things, including eggs (I want to find a local farmer to buy from, but I was desperate). On the left of the shelf are eggs with a big flashy 'ORGANIC' on the package, meaning the hens were fed a vegetarian diet (i.e. natural and healthy), and...

"Allen and Peter asked him at some length about drugs and drug experiences, and their relationship to the spiritual states of meditation. The Dalai Lama gave the same answer everyone else did: drug states are real psychic states, but they aren't ultimately useful to you because you didn't get them o...

(to continue the hijack, I haven't had any meat in the last three years, and all ethical/political/moral/spiritual reasons aside, I've never felt better. I personally think I save money, but since I have three checkbooks in continuous circulation because I keep losing them, and none of them have eve...

Here are the videos, by the way. The first is 'Smack My Bitch Up' by the British band The Prodigy. The second is 'How Many Licks' by Lil' Kim feat. Sisqo. This videos are provocative, but the point as far as the class is concerned is how sex/gender is presented. <object width="425" height="344"><par...

Arcadia - The complaint, as far I can tell, is that the videos the professor showed in his class were inappropriate. However, the class he taught was Media and the Sexes. The videos he showed were, although offensive, parts of American pop culture and media, and so are highly relevant to his subjec...

And the thing that bothers me the most about this, besides the obvious ones, is that it was a parent who complained. Seriously, are we in grade school?

I'm going to be writing some letters of my own.

In this morning's Western Herald, I can't find it online yet: Women's Studies professor dismissed for showing music videos in class By Emily Gibson Christopher Tower, a part-time instructor who has taught WMS 1000: Media and the Sexes for ten years, has been dismissed from Western Michigan Universit...