Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Slicing the New Hampshire Voters
CNN takes a look at who voted for whom and what they think about it via exit polls. Interesting.
Archive for January 8, 2008
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought 193 years ago today (you know, “In 1815, we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson, down the mighty Mississip”). Pulitizer-winning historian Alan Taylor gives a quick summary at The Edge of the American West.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
Jesse Garon Presley and Elvis Aron Presley
… were born in a house without electricity or plumbing in East Tupelo, Mississippi, on this date in 1935. Jesse, the older twin, was stillborn. The parents were Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Smith Presley.
And it’s not even 10, it’s 11
What would be truly incredible is if voters and computers finally realize that the Big Ten, whose teams have won two national titles in 38 years, is no longer a football conference.
What would be absolutely fair is voters and computers treating the Big Ten the way they treat the Western Athletic Conference of Boise State and Hawaii.
Here’s the final AP Top 10:
1. LSU (60) 12-2 1,620
2. Georgia (3) 11-2 1,515
3. USC (1) 11-2 1,500
4. Missouri 12-2 1,347
5. Ohio State 11-2 1,346
6. West Virginia 11-2 1,342
7. Kansas (1) 12-1 1,303
8. Oklahoma 11-3 1,139
9. Virginia Tech 11-3 1,096
10. Texas 10-3 962
Best line of the day, so far
“Like most rich white ladies, Hillary Clinton is very afraid of a black man asking for change”
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Hillary Clinton R.I.P.
A solid piece from Functional Ambivalent on the end of the Bush-Clinton era.
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