White Paper
I'm working on a white paper for community infrastructure co-ops.
My intent is to get fed funding for building a prototype.

Transparency
They're pouring water on blades of the paper shredders in the EOB right now -- the way they did doing battlefield amputations in the Civil War.

Vikram Pandit is an abject failure.
'nuff said.

Why He Won

I don't see how Bush fucking up has anything to do, per se with Obama getting elected.
In my mind, Obama got elected by running a near-flawless campaign. He leveraged Howard Dean's groundbreaking work in terms of organizing and fund raising. He recognized that in genuinely troubled times, overt and reactive partisanship wasn't the right prescription. Overall, he had a winning strategy from the outset, and stuck to it. One of the bobbleheads I heard last night coughed up a truism: most battles are over before the first shot is fired.
Obama's victory is akin to Bill Clinton jumping into the fray in 1991, when all the Democrat bigshots were bailing -- refusing to be cannon fodder before an a triumphant GHW Bush's inevitable landslide. Clinton (and his team) sensed something different and developed the plan to capitalize on it, and it worked. In the face of obstacles and stupidity, their hand stayed firm. It was the plan that won.

Echoing Atrios' assessment of Tom Brokaw as "blithering idiot of the day", Brokaw should have been with me yesterday, canvassing in 1 square mile in New Jersey, We were tasked to knock on over 800 doors. Half of them turned out to be in retirement/nursing homes (Apt. 2D on the sheet turned out to be bed 2D in some cases.). So there you have large, concentrated populations in the Jewish and Catholic centers. Additionally, in the same square mile we hit million dollar McMansions, a neighborhood of tiny bungalows, as well as property backing on to a farm. Probably 2500 people living in that square mile, with ethnic, age, and income diversity matching the whole country.
That's 21st century America, dimwit.

I just voted.
I had to vote by provisional ballet. I moved in mid-July. I sent in a re-registration/change of address (moved within the county)before the deadline. I don't know why they didn't register me. My wife's change was on the books; mine wasn't.
SOOO, I had to fill out a provisional ballet.
To compound the minor frustration (I live in Deep Blue Jersey, so I'm not too concerned about the timeliness of the vote count. New Jersey will be called for Obama at 8:00 and thirty seconds tonight.)I left my reading glasses at home.
Let's just say that ballet I had to fill out wasn't exactly ADA compliant. The more I struggled with holding the thing out in front of me, the older I felt.
Of course the fact that I went to the poll with my son who voted for the first time was also a reminder of my age, but in a positive way.
No lines at 7 a.m. in my district; steady traffic. The poll worker said there was a sizable line at the door at 6 a.m.
Felt kind of misty reflecting on the day as I walked home. Recalling 4 years ago, after watching the Emminem Mosh video, I wore black hoodie to the polling place that day. Pissed off then; more settled today.
It's a good thing.

The future of the GOP is Palin-Putnam '12
You heard it here first!