All the cool kids are doing it

Ted Koppel was on Meet the Press talking about how Obama has the support of an ex-KKK member who is in the witness protection program for his part in the last lynching in America back in the early eighties.

William F. Buckley's son came out with an article that said, without ceding any of ideological ground, that he felt he had no choice but to vote for Obama because of what might be described as the erraticness/shamelessness/old-cootness gap between he and McCain.

And, from the Beeb, news of a nun in Rome, 106 years old, who hasn't voted since 1952, will be sending in her absentee ballot for Barry O'Bama:

BBC NEWS | Americas | 106-year-old voter chooses Obama

And in other news, the stock market crashed. Instead of crashing in a day, it crashed over the course of ten days or so, but crash it did. When I was a robber...in Boston place... I got distracted. That wasn't what I meant to say. Here: when I was a young teen in the late nineties (I guess now'days that age would be called the tweens, which I'd like to find fault with as a neologism, but is actually pretty solid) I was frustrated by the nineties' vacation from history as I've heard it described. I wanted dramatic things to happen. Great land wars in Asia. Economic collapse. A political atmosphere in which there were greater things at stake than impeachment over perjury in a civil trial. I was afraid that Fukuyama's End of History was real and things were going to keep on being that boring forever. No wars bigger than Kosovo; unfathomably dull economic prosperity. The lesson being of course careful what you wish for. When it comes true you'll actually be a young adult who has a vested interest in terrible things not happening and lacks the solipsism of youth that makes the suffering of others via war or economic hardship a purely abstract and unconcerning matter.