Posts by Jake Pollock
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Danielle, in case you haven't seen it, The Daily Show on community organisers.
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Nate Silver has his final projections up. Not looking good for McCain.
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I wanted to go to campus today to witness democracy in action, but unfortunately am laid up with a cold. Nevertheless, it's 17C and sunny in Pittsburgh, and a nice day to vote, if that's the kind of thing you're into.
And based on camp 1970s Batman's run for mayor against the Penguin, I'm going to say he was a Democrat.
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Lickspittle:
a. An abject parasite or sycophant; a toady.
[1629 DAVENANT Albovine III. Gib, Lick her spittle From the ground. This disguiz'd humilitie Is both the swift, and safest way to pride.] 1825 J. WILSON Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 40 To hear his lickspittles speak you would think that a man of great and versatile talents was a miracle. 1851 BORROW Lavengro III. 319 It is only in England that literary men are invariably lick-spittles. 1883 J. HAWTHORNE Dust I. 4 Stage-coachmen were..comrades to gentlemen, lickspittles to lords. 1890 C. MARTYR W. Phillips 76 The South omnipotent and imperious, the North its errand-boy and lick-spittle.
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I deleted Kiwiblog from my RSS feed because of that post. I don't miss it.
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It doesn't work for me on Firefox 3.0.3 or Safari 3.1.2, using Flash 10.0.12.36.
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I thought I would add that this evening, before I pick up some takeaways, I will be withdrawing money from the very ATM where Ashley Todd wasn't mugged by an overenthusiastic Obama supporter.
I feel like I'm living in history.
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My American colleagues are not so sure, Giovanni. In fact, those that are voting Democratic (which I believe is all of them) are almost certain Obama will lose -- that America is too racist, that the Republicans will steal it again, or something. Honestly, they're like Black Cap supporters expecting another batting collapse.
For a campaign based around hope, there sure is a lot of despair in the air.
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Yeah, I worked for [redacted] survey company when I was an undergrad, and that survey was an ongoing one. That and a survey about bread that took about 45 minutes. I guess that's still going too.