Yesterday was our first day on the Kent State campus. We arrived with a 15-passenger van festooned with signage that invited early voting and positioned it right in front of the Student Center. Under cloudy, often rainy skies, hundreds of students passed by.
“How would you like to avoid the long lines on Election Day and [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Vote Today Ohio–Day 2–Tach It Up
September 30, 2008 – 11:55 pm
Vote Today Ohio–Day 1–On the Ground
September 29, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Ohio election law permits voter registration through October 6. But Early Voting begins September 30. This means that for one week, Ohio residents may register and vote early in all of Ohio’s 88 counties.
Secretary Paulson Wants a Section 8
September 24, 2008 – 5:58 pm
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Wall Street’s financial mess is complicated. The bail-out is complicated.
But one thing is clear: whatever is to be done must be done in the sunshine with full recourse for chicanery and self-dealing.
Draw Your Brakes–A Jamaican Creole Shout
September 20, 2008 – 1:13 am
Some art, like the 1969 Hopper/Fonda film, Easy Rider, flashes boldly in its moment and ages to insignificance or embarrassment. Some, like the soundtrack of the 1972 reggae film, The Harder They Come, is timeless.
I owned the soundtrack early and played the cassette until it was lost. Almost 35 years later, I bought the CD [...]
Vote Today Ohio–A Grassroots Effort
September 18, 2008 – 12:03 am
My wife and I are going to Ohio to register voters.
Ohio recently changed its voting laws in a way that creates an extraordinary opportunity to register new voters. For one week only (Sept 30—Oct 6), Ohio residents may register and vote early in all of Ohio’s 88 counties. They need make only one trip to [...]
“If You Don’t Vote, You’re a Moron!”
September 17, 2008 – 11:38 am
On September 10, CBS Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson, a Scotland-born, recently naturalized American citizen, delivered an impassioned rant about the importance of voting. Airing immediately after Obama appeared on Letterman’s show, Ferguson’s screed was trenchant, funny, and exactly right.
“If you don’t vote, you’re a moron!”
At the end of this month, I’m heading to [...]
Vetting the Candidates
September 6, 2008 – 12:27 am
“Has she been thoroughly vetted?” they ask. It’s an apt question. But do they know what the word actually means?
