by Doug LeMoine on 20 January 2009
President – elect Obama: Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our [...]
by Doug LeMoine on 6 January 2009
(The title is from a poet named Tao Lin in a collection called this emotion was a little e-book). The Internet is like a small town, especially when there’s something to disagree about. Recently, some of my favorite Internet citizens got into it over Obama’s decision to have poetry at his inauguration. I’ve always liked [...]
by Doug LeMoine on 3 November 2008
Like most Democrats in the United States, I am actually a socialist. I vote for Democratic candidates in the hope that, after sweet-talking their ways around the real issues, they’ll get down to the real work of redistributing wealth and nationalizing businesses. So when John McCain announced that Barack Obama is a socialist, it came [...]
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