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Hi there. I'm Aaron Sonnenberg. I work at Blip and live in Greenpoint. You can find me on flickr, twitter or e-mail me at: aaron/at/blip/dot/com

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That seat, held for nearly half a century by Mr. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, will now be held for the next two years by a Republican who has said he supports waterboarding as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects, opposes a federal cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions and opposes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants unless they leave the country. It was a sharp swing of the pendulum, but even Democratic voters said they wanted the Obama administration to change direction. “I’m hoping that it gives a message to the country,” said Marlene Connolly, 73, of North Andover, a lifelong Democrat who said she cast her first vote for a Republican on Tuesday. “I think if Massachusetts puts Brown in, it’s a message of ‘that’s enough.’ Let’s stop the giveaways and let’s get jobs going.

G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats - NYTimes.com

Ladies and gentlemen, your American voter. Votes for a Tea Party Republican to curtail Wall Street giveaways and “get jobs going” (whatever the hell that means). As de Tocqueville said, a democracy requires an educated electorate. And we don’t have one.

(via wiesen)

Generational. We’ll be okay but it might take a generation or two more. The long term trending is still solid. This is a marathon, not a sprint. My kid’s kids will live in a better world; I will not. I’m okay with that.

(via evangotlib)

I’m not. The farther we go down this trajectory the harder and longer it will be to turn things around. Who knows what the world will become while we wait for the marathon to pick up? (Look at where the Bush Presidency took us in just eight years)

20 Jan 2010 / 30 notes