The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Thoughts on teaching, politics, life in general

About that “overhead projector”

mongreldogs | October 7, 2008

At the debate tonight, Senator John McCain tried to make hay out of an earmark requested by his opponent, Senator Barrack Obama:
He voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois
Kinda makes it sound like Sen. Obama [...]

One month to go…

mongreldogs | October 7, 2008

… until the US Presidential election. Barack Obama seems to have the momentum now, gaining about 1 point in national tracking polls every three days. Nate Silver at 538 has a model predicting that Senator Obama will win about 340 electoral votes — over the required total by 70, a landslide by [...]