let's stumble towards success and pack some snacks for little breaks

For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over grandmother), got their turn to vote. When the old woman left the voting booth she made it about halfway to the door before collapsing in a nearby chair, where she began weeping uncontrollably. When we rushed over to help we realized that she wasn't in trouble at all but she had not truly believed, until she left the booth, that she would ever live long enough to cast a vote for an African-American for president. --here

Also, Apple is donating a hundred thousand dollars to the No On 8 campaign in California. Go, Apple! I donated too, a little less than that--the first time I've ever given money to anything political, I think, unless you count the HRC membership I bought to shut Richard up. But this is a really, really important proposition to overturn, and I can't vote against it because I'm voting in Missouri.

This one is highly amusing: an ad on the back cover of Nature, unfortunately juxtaposed with the front cover.

Still amusing, but also scary: Sarah Palin believes that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.

Mildly amusing, but really more "WTF McCain?": a remarkably rude and passive-aggressive e-mail from McCain to Obama.

Not at all amusing in any sense of the word: a terrorist attack on a mosque that occurred on Saturday and has not been reported anywhere except local papers.

"I'm with Harry Truman on this — if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen," [Hillary Clinton] told voters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "Just speaking for myself, I am very comfortable in the kitchen." -this Yahoo! News article