It can only get funnier.

You'd think.

But let me assure you, no it doesn't.

Oh no, no. No no no no no...

Aw c'mon. It can only get funnier.

Elaborate, please.

Oh no, no. No no no no no...

Elaborate, please.

Sad.

Palin was ungracious to the end. The mind boggles at what she might have said if she were given the opportunity.

There's a brilliant book to be written by a McCain campaign…

Some favourites: news sinking in, "You did it, Dad!", best smile ever, great couple, and the moms!

For me, this will be the enduring memory of election night 2008: One generation released its grief. The next looked up confusedly, eager to please and yet unable to comprehend just what the tears were about.

Just call me Marianne Dashwood.

Yours ever, Pollyanna.

עס האָט מיר פֿאַרקלעמט דאָס האַרץ

es hot mir farklemt dos hertz, it constricted my heart.

farklemt.

It's called sentimentalism.

I'm sure there's plenty of that around too. I'm frankly not sure where the line is drawn, or how you get to be the person that makes that call, or even if it matters. If sentimentalism makes people act slightly less like dickheads to each other, I'm…

– strictly, there's no "p" there, in speech or writing. I think the Yiddish spelling is fe-alef-reysh-kof-lamed-ayin-mem-tet/פארקﬥעמט. YIVO transliterates it far-klemt.
– most of the actual usage by Yiddish speakers I have googled up is about sadness and depression. There is a happy verklemmt…

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy Reality without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

--George Meredith

And verklempt! That's exactly…

Note to self, always check dictionary before embarking on pedantic exercise.

verklemptness (is that a word?)

It's a word if you want to use it that way.

Assuming we're talking Yiddish, farklemterheyt would probably be what my great grandmother would have said. And die Verklemptheit is good German, although I'm not sure whether it's idiomatic in the emotional context.

Literally it's…

if only by a matter of degrees I'd have to say that this victory for this candidate in this country is probably a bigger deal at this time in history

I agree with you. One of my lecturers when I was doing my MA said that the ways in which…

I just don't know if it would have felt so universally moving, and I don't know that I'm happy about that, because isn't that insidious sexism at its best?

Seems to me it is just that a win by a woman would have been much less historic. If it had…

By the way, am I the only person who, after reading the title of the post, is singing "You Sexy Thing?"

No sirree, you are not the only one at all. 'Yesterda-ay, I was one of the lonely people...

And that!

the insufferable wet blanketism of the last, interminable thirty-six hours

Thank you for that.

Agree with everything that has…

I just don't know if it would have felt so universally moving, and I don't know that I'm happy about that, because isn't that insidious sexism at its best?

I think also (and I can't explain why) that the Civil Rights movement was something that white people got actively involved…

Y'all did click on my YouTube embed, right? I want the whole country up and boogying, now.

I'm at work so I bypassed it. I don't know how I missed this though:

How’d ya know I needed you so badly/ How’d ya know I’d give my heart so gladly?

Do we feel sorry for her?

I did at first, but then you read things like this from Newsweek and question whether all that nastiness was straight from her, not from the "McCain campaign":
__Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before…

I want a cup cake.

Here, have one of these.

By the way, am I the only person who, after reading the title of the post, is singing "You Sexy Thing?"

Y'all did click on my YouTube embed, right? I want the whole country up and boogying, now.

(Just trying to pass on my election ear-worm to the rest of…

By the way, am I the only person who, after reading the title of the post, is singing "You Sexy Thing?"

No sirree, you are not the only one at all. 'Yesterda-ay, I was one of the lonely people...'

I want a cup cake.

I'm hoping that when I vote that someone will have cupcakes waiting for me. But for some reason I just don't think they will (sigh)

By the way, am I the only person who, after reading the title of the post, is singing "You Sexy…

But it's still fun for a lot of people to be sexist, because we feminists are just a bunch of man-hating whiners who are making it all up and taking offence for no reason and should get over it.

Oh, replying to myself, I'm so awesome. Yeesh. But I just…

The thing that I pick up from your post is that even after 13 years of living in the US, playing taxes (I assume) and generally participating in day-to-day life you aren't allowed to vote without being a citizen.

I am eternally grateful to NZ as my adopted country that…

Shame on the smearers who don’t have the balls to show their faces.

Apart from the rather uncomfortable picture on what adult fun in the Malkin household is like, does anyone else get the…

Roy Edroso has the lowdown on Red State's denunciation and excommunication campaign against anyone on the McCain campaign who betrayed Sarah Palin.

*sigh* Forget denounce and excommunicate. I want to bring out the whole bag of tricks of the Inquisition for those on the McCain Campaign who betrayed the rest…

Roy Edroso has the lowdown on Red State's denunciation and excommunication campaign against anyone on the McCain campaign who betrayed Sarah Palin.

I can't help but worry about the backlash. A large proportion of the 49% are probably feeling pretty aggrieved.

Meh... Do you think that nobody in the media really gives a fuck about those Republicans who are pretty disappointed, but got up on Wednesday and got on with their lives?…

364 electorate votes.

Just Missouri to come.

and as my wife pointed out yesterday that 49% are "53 million rednecks with guns" .... a little bit of a generalisation

Just a tad. I know quite a few armed rednecks. My cousin, in reddest of red rural Louisiana, a place where people hunt and shoot and fish and…

I must admit, the taxation without representation thing irritates me a little (usually around April 15). On the other…

McCain's concession speech was a good start, a decent if belated attempt to soothe his riled-up base and forestall a rash of cross-burnings.

I can't help but worry about the backlash. A large proportion of the 49% are probably feeling pretty aggrieved. When you factor in that almost one quarter…

My girls have grown up knowing that the PM can be female because goddamit, the PM, as long as they have been alive, has been female. Think of the generation who will grow up knowing that the President of the US can be…

This time of year I felt like going down to the Bay and dip a teabag in

You can't vote in NZ once you've been out of the country for…

I'm guessing the thinking is that once you have made a sufficient commitment to a country to become…

If you need more, Emma, this is doing the rounds:

Rosa…

Do you think that should change?

Well, "no taxation without representation" was the rallying cry of the War of Independence, so you'd think they'd have followed that through! I'd love to have voted this time, I really would. And the longer I stay in one place after years of being…

The thing that I pick up from your post is that even after 13 years of living in the US, playing taxes (I assume) and generally participating in day-to-day life you aren't allowed to vote without being a citizen.

Yep. I'm a permanent resident, with a green card (which was…