Blagojevich has been unanimously removed from the Governor’s Office today, and Chris Matthews has been coverng this new development on his show, Hardball, for the past hour. Watching these developments, hearing the ridiculousness of Blagojevich’s defense, his likening himself to Ghandi, and King, his use of Kipling’s poetry to defend himself makes me thankful that [...]
A day on the slopes and a night of Cornell hockey isn’t the typical Cornell weekend (too much leisure, not enough work) but before all the work starts piling up, it’s nice to take advantage of the winter in Ithaca. Over the past couple of weeks it snowed quite a bit, and for the first [...]
The Connie Morrow and Pat Greene song is the only tune that kept coming to my mind today as Barack Obama is officially President of the United States (that and John Williams’ composition)! CNN’s coverage showed public squares in Harlem, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Memphis of scores of people gathered together watching the inauguration. Here [...]