Okay, it’s 7pm and the first polls are beginning to close out here in the East Coast and we can finally stop talking about polling numbers and actually talk about raw votes–the same ones Hillary Clinton moaned about in the primaries.  Here, the rubber is about to meet the road. Well, frankly, I’ve always wondered […]

Read more "Did Your Vote Really Count?"

Yeah, as everyone knows, I voted absentee ballot and I realised that I missed out, slightly, on a piece of interesting history this election.  I received untold number of text messages from my friends who know just how politically minded I am, about how they voted in the days leading up to the elections.  I […]

Read more "I Didn’t Vote…traditionally at least"

I was watching The View this morning really just to see what their reaction was to them being lampooned on Saturday Night Live.  The phone rang so I missed a part of that skit, but I thought Kenan Thompson’s playing Whoopi Goldberg was funny.  I noticed, as did Whoopi that Sherri Shepherd wasn’t on the […]

Read more "The Role of The Comedian in The Presidential Race"

That’s an acutal quote from Cornel West dropped in an AP story on last Saturday.  I mean, the first major motion picture to have a black man as a president was “Deep Impact” with Morgan Freeman–as we all know, a friggin meteor hit the planet and he was left to pick up the friggin pieces. […]

Read more "Barbershop Philosophy: “‘Right when the thing is about to go under, they hand it over to the black man.'”"

This is an email that I’m sure most of you got some time last week, and if you didn’t here it is: If Obama actually wins this thing by the end of tonight, there will be a lot of people (some of our co-workers included) who will be afraid that an Obama presidency will usher in […]

Read more "UNN Early Edition: For Those Uppity Negroes Who Voted…"

I may have a lot of sucessive posts today depending just how the day progresses.  I actually have a Greek study session later on today at 6pm to 8:30.  I doubt seriously I may go to an election night party, we’ll see how it goes.  What I am NOT going to is the Fool Fest […]

Read more "UNN Earliest Edition: Election Day"