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Good Night
by Dan 
Well, Liz and I decided not to go down to Grant Park tonight.
But, pretty huge night for the country, the city, etc.
Finally we can get back to talking about things other than the election and the campaign. Moreover, we officially know the date on which there will no longer be a republican president. Hopefully in the next week or so we can all forget Palin exists. Maybe even McCain can go back to being the guy he was before he chose to run for president.
Good game, Obama, congrats.
11/04/08 11:12:11 pm, 
8 comments
Comment from: Beni [Member]
Also, watching the acceptance speech from Boston, oh, man, Chicago certainly did look its twinkly best, and Grant Park....man oh man, do I miss Chicago's great parks.
11/05/08 @ 15:52
Comment from: Tasha [Member]
Yay indeed! I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't stay up all night to watch the results come in (I was scared of the outcome, to be honest)... But I caught part of his speech on the radio when I first woke up, and it brought tears to my eyes. Who'd have thought it possible (either the outcome or the tears)? Maybe we'll move back - maybe now is the time.
11/05/08 @ 17:46
Comment from: Beni [Member]
Also, has anyone else been amused by all the recent coverage of Hyde Park and characterizations of Chicago.
I was particularly amused by the Times T Style Travel magazine feature on Jimmy's: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/09/21/style/t/index.html#rhModuleTitle=&rhModule=&pageName=21epicentersw&
and in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2203773/pagenum/all/
Although I thought it was a little silly, and perhaps a little outdated, I was particularly amused by Meghan O'Rourke posting the Chicago school of economics and John Dewey and the pragmatists against Harvard's Transcendalist movement.
I was particularly amused by the Times T Style Travel magazine feature on Jimmy's: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/09/21/style/t/index.html#rhModuleTitle=&rhModule=&pageName=21epicentersw&
and in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2203773/pagenum/all/
Although I thought it was a little silly, and perhaps a little outdated, I was particularly amused by Meghan O'Rourke posting the Chicago school of economics and John Dewey and the pragmatists against Harvard's Transcendalist movement.
11/06/08 @ 11:46
Comment from: Natalia [Visitor]
I've especially found the idea of Hyde Park as a hotbed of radicals funny. Hotbed of nerds, more like. Grant Park was looking pretty great Tuesday night, I agree, Beni.
Here in the East Bay we had an election night Sacred Harp singing. We finished the evening with "Babylon is Fallen" -- not subtle, but satisfying.
Here in the East Bay we had an election night Sacred Harp singing. We finished the evening with "Babylon is Fallen" -- not subtle, but satisfying.
11/06/08 @ 13:03
Comment from: laura [Member]
Daniel, you should know that your entire immediate family can't believe you didn't go to Grant Park on election night. You could have cried with Oprah. And, y'know, the next President was there.
Just getting my voice back, having spent Tuesday night/Wednesday morning running around screaming in Harvard Square...
Just getting my voice back, having spent Tuesday night/Wednesday morning running around screaming in Harvard Square...
11/08/08 @ 11:53
Comment from: Liz [Visitor]
We had puppy issues to deal with, guys. Otherwise we would have been there. Maybe. If we could have avoided public transit and also driving.
Tasha, it IS time for you to come back! Barack Obama would be very depressed if you stayed in the UK.
And on the weird focus on Hyde Park, did anyone else laugh back when McCain was accusing Obama of daring to appear in public with Rashid Khalidi? I'm not sure it would have felt any weirder if he had told everyone that Obama was best buddies with known radical David Bevington.
Tasha, it IS time for you to come back! Barack Obama would be very depressed if you stayed in the UK.
And on the weird focus on Hyde Park, did anyone else laugh back when McCain was accusing Obama of daring to appear in public with Rashid Khalidi? I'm not sure it would have felt any weirder if he had told everyone that Obama was best buddies with known radical David Bevington.
11/10/08 @ 18:08
Comment from: Natalia [Visitor]
Oh, yes, I thought the Khalidi thing was hilarious.
In general, I'm very confused about why the msm thinks it's okay to say that X "has ties to" Y, as if that gave us insight into X's true political commitments. Quite apart from whom we're accusing of having ties to whom, I object on a rhetorical level. "Has ties to" is incredibly vague. What kind of ties are we talking about? Chatting at a conference? Employer/employee relationship? Taking bribes? BFF? It's a meaningless construction, and therefore useful only for misleading insinuation -- misleading because it suggests meaning where there is none.
In general, I'm very confused about why the msm thinks it's okay to say that X "has ties to" Y, as if that gave us insight into X's true political commitments. Quite apart from whom we're accusing of having ties to whom, I object on a rhetorical level. "Has ties to" is incredibly vague. What kind of ties are we talking about? Chatting at a conference? Employer/employee relationship? Taking bribes? BFF? It's a meaningless construction, and therefore useful only for misleading insinuation -- misleading because it suggests meaning where there is none.
11/17/08 @ 00:45