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Archive for 2nd October 2008
Long Silence Broken
For some reason, Indiana flies below everyone’s radar (except for Hoosiers, obviously). Other than Bayh and Lugar — Bayh because there was all that talk about putting him on the ticket, and Lugar because he’s been in the Senate longer than Methuselah and has had enough time to make a name for himself — Hoosier politics is nowhere to be seen outside Indiana. So when I found this, thanks to Frugal Hoosiers, I was fairly surprised, among other things.
Indiana (R): Democrats had high hopes for defeating Gov. Mitch Daniels at the start of the cycle. Daniels had struggled through his first four years in office and even Republicans admitted he was vulnerable. Then two things happened: Daniels ran a very solid reelection campaign and Democrats nominated the wrong candidate in former Rep. Jill Long Thompson. Thompson has struggled to raise money and is off the television airwaves with just five weeks before the election. Um, disaster.
Of course, what they don’t tell you, again because Indiana is under the radar, is that this isn’t the first time poor Jill has run for office, and she’s always a disaster because she has the intellectual firepower of a mosquito. Biden on estrogen, as it were.
Having said that, Mitch rocks the house.
Dear Lord!
I got swamped with email. I still have 80-some messages to go through, and I’ve deleted all the spam.
Somebody’s Not Going To Like This
A whole dorm at Stanford — of Palin fans.
You can’t see Russia from Stanford University, but one of its newly decorated dorms sure feels like Sarah Palin’s hometown.
The all-male ground floor of the Serra building is designated for the “First Dudes,” and the women’s floor is reserved for “Hockey Moms.” Posters of snowmobiles, oil rigs and polar bears are smattered across the walls, and students who live in the building are known to don T-shirts that proclaim “Drill Baby Drill.”
It’s a longstanding tradition for Stanford’s student staff to decorate dormitories in themes drawn from popular culture, and traditionally movies and television shows have provided the inspiration. But when resident assistants from Serra dorm started brainstorming this year, they quickly gravitated toward a Palin theme. The Alaska governor, who had just accepted the vice presidential nomination, was becoming a phenomenon, and “Serra Palin Dorm” was born.
I’m kind of surprised they haven’t been brought up on some kind of moonbatty charges by the “diversity” or “sensitivity” squad. But the year’s yet young!