Robert Hall

ha-ha... did you forget he is an American, born in Hawaii, and his mother was white? You probably need to look up the differences between communism and socialism..different systems. What about modern Western Europe or Canada, they have quasi socialist economies, but are generally considered to have much higher quality of life than the US..

I went out on CNN and looked at the result maps for all 50 states, to see which counties went which way..pretty fascinating to see how counties went blue or red, where the concentrations were, and how those corresponded to demographics. In particular, I studied Colorado and Ohio, two states I'm very familiar with, and what counties went which way. Some interesting factoids I discovered--only 1 state went totally red---Oklahoma--every county was red, but 5 states went totally blue in every county (all New England states).

Yeah...I think besides the iffy job market, the climate is the main thing that's kept me from moving back... after 12 years in the dry, sunny West, the damp, gray cold Ohio/PA winters would probably kill me...

It's interesting to say the least... the '58-60 Lincoln is my least favorite Lincoln of that era, with the '61-63 being perfection, IMHO...(and the '64-65 and '66-69 pretty sweet also).

Sweet... I've seen a few R8s, though none recently. The A8 is probably my favorite of the big executive saloons these days, really like the styling and esp. the interior design and detailing.

It would be cool to see the hatchback version here...it's a pretty slick package, IMHO. Offer it w/ the turbo 4, a diesel, and the DI V6s..

Yes, McCain was very gracious in his concession speech. But there was certainly plenty of booing in the crowd when he mentioned Obama's name. I'm sure that plenty of the foaming-at-the-mouth, delusional right wingers are quite angry and nasty today. Time for them to STFU and crawl back under their rocks w/ their guns and bibles, IMHO...

Immodium (what I take to combat IBS so I can enjoy spicy food)

Yes, some great roads around the burgh. I'm pretty familiar with Pittsburgh and the surrounding counties, since it's pretty close to Eastern Ohio where I lived for 20+ years. Every time I'm back in that part of the country, it always blows my mind how GREEN it is in the spring and summer, and the great fall colours. CO and AZ are very tan and brown, with the greenery mostly from pine trees...

Have a good trip. I'll probably pass through the Pittsburgh airport at Xmas, on my way to visit family in E. Ohio..

Yes, sadly, too many years of Wal-Mart style 'low prices everyday' peddling substandard cars with cheap interior plastics and bland, look-alike exteriors, and outdated transmissions, engines, etc put GM behind over the last 25+ years.. it's only in recent years that they've developed truly competitive, world class product in the mainstream segments..

Not necessarily..there was nothing historic about 2004, for example. Several elements of this election were history--first mixed-race candidate, 2nd woman VP candidate (the media seemed to forget about Gerry Ferraro), oldest first-term candidate, first candidate of Obama's generation (late boomer). Well, that's the way it is, I'm afraid. I'm single, there aren't any single-specific issues politicians brought up that I can think of that would be relevant to me.. I'd like to deduct my dogs as dependents, but that's not going to happen. After all, why should those who choose to drop brats be able to deduct them? My terriers are as relevant to my life as their little ankle biters are to them. Minimum vacation would be nice..I'd like to see European-style 6 weeks. Every salaried job I've had this decade has started at 3 weeks (one went to 4 weeks after I had been there 4 years). One of things about being a contractor is no paid vacation, so I try and take off a month or so a year between contracts...

I wouldn't say I'm in love with it, but I do enjoy solving complex problems, building complex systems. It makes me the benjamins... I've invested the last 20 years of my academic and professional life in understanding software development and practicing it.

Hasn't happened yet...there have been many examples of failures of outsourced projects. Businesses still have to have developers and architects in the cubes stateside to be successful....

scary red state..

Yes... I got in the game just at the right time and have ridden it for 10+ years.. it's been a good era to be in internet technology. Even with the dot com bubble, outsourcing, and recent layoffs, my industry still looks strong. Computers and software are so ingrained in business and the mechanisms of the world, there were always be demand..

I wonder if a viable 3rd party, a Libertarian party perhaps, could evolve over the next few years. The Republican party as it is now is a pretty damaged brand--it has the image of the white Christian intolerance party, supporting failed economic policies.

Clinton is recent history..I lived through the 90s. It's part of my reality context. The Republicans are going to have to reinvent themselves if they are going to be relevant again. (As far as 1 party, I suspect many conservatives want a theocracy with a dictator for life---I know many of the foaming-at-the-mouth, rabid social conservatives..they are as scary as hell).

Let's see, the country was in really good shape when Bill was in office...the economy was booming through the mid and late nineties. Face it, the conservative BS is what got the country in the mess it is in now..it's a failed ideology whose time is past.

Nice to see what appears to be a big turn out of young voters. I like how Roland Martin on CNN was talking about how he bridges between the boomers and gen X (my generation).

If I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, I'd probably sit in the jacuzzi all night listening to Springsteen and U2 in a happy mood, drinking mojitos..

Could be... maybe it will be end of the failed neocon movement. Consign them to the past where they belong.

Across the Hudson River from Westchester County, just to the NW of NYC. I've been through there back in the mid '90s. Before I moved west, I looked pretty seriously at moving to Westchester County (Yorktown, specifically). It's a beautiful green part of the state..

The way I look at it, what we saw tonight is a vote for the future, for modernity; rather than for an outdated worldview of the past, which the failed neocon mindset represents.

It's not easy... I took 4 years of Spanish in HS and college... but it was Spain Spanish, not Arizona Spanish. I want to learn French---want to spend at least a month in France in '10.