Why isn't there a bigger audience
for clean and quirky?
Pushing Daisies, I'll miss you. Go find Ed and keep him company.
I figured out a title: This post is more about race than it is about politics
For me, one of the favorable things about Barack Obama is that he's black. Half black, but black nonetheless. I've heard a lot of hullabaloo -- especially in the media -- that we really ought not let race play a factor in this election. Geraldine Ferraro was lambasted for suggesting that Obama's race was to his advantage in beating Clinton. But I agreed with her, as far as I understood her comments correctly. His ethnicity makes me more inclined to vote for him. If we don't elect a black president this year, it will be a very, very long time before we ever elect a black president. Or a Chinese-American president, or a Jewish president, or a Mormon president and I could go on. The black cultural things about Obama make some people very nervous: his African-American church, for example, or the racially-charged thesis that his wife supposedly wrote at Princeton, or was it Yale? 1 There are way too many people, of all political parties, in this country who harbor biases t...
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Of course, I said pretty much the same thing about Arrested Development when it was on, and now that it is gone I'd put it in the top five television shows ever.
You can sign a petition online to keep it on the air. You never know, it could work.
I guess I will have to go back to the Harry Potter audiobooks to get my Jim Dale fix.