Not a Big Truck

I was supporting Obama before this speech.  But, after this speech, I was totally in the tank…as the pros seem to say.  Coming off a completely devastating and disappointing loss, to deliver this speech required a confidence and political skill that I was definitely not accustomed to.

Expectations for him are so high. This speech on Tuesday will need to be amazing simply to meet those expectations. Even if the speech is mediocre, let’s hope he succeeds in governing competently.

Few people know that Harry Reid had an acting career. In fact, he’s in the following video.

Can you spot him?

Nuggets like this are why I love The New Yorker:

America used to be full of odd beers.  In 1873, the country had some four thousand breweries, working in dozens of regional and ethnic styles.  Brooklyn alone had nearly fifty.  Beer was not only refreshing but nutritious, it was said — a “valuable substitute for vegetables,” as a member of the United States Sanitary Commission put it during the Civil War.

Read the whole article here.

Read for yourself.

Starting after the election, we will be having a cabinet pool. More information will come out in the coming days but here’s an article on the subject to whet your appetite.

Drudge is trumpeting the story of a woman in Pittsburgh who was allegedly robbed at knifepoint at an ATM.  Her attacker supposedly saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car and proceeded to scratch a “B” into her face — go here for a short article with picture.

Suspiciously, the “B” on her face is a mirror image of a regular “B.”  Why would the attacker scratch a mirror-image “B”?  If it was meant as a mark of Barack Obama, why not carve the letter “O”?

I’m interested to hear what is on the ATM security camera video.