i enjoyed getting to know the story of the man more than the movie itself. the movie was good, but something that bothered me about it all….well, they realized in the end that they misjudged him, but he had to save dozens of people to get them there. it seems a steep price to pay for understanding.

sort of along these line, when rep. justin amash won his 2014 primary against a republican challenger, he gave what i still consider the best victory speech ever given. he got excoriated by the media for it, but i will always remember it fondly. just a taste:

i really do wish newman and redford could've had one more fling.

to paraphrase white house press secretary josh earnest, there were a lot of voters who voted for obama in 2008 and 2012 that also voted for donald trump. in fact, without them, he doesn't win. but if you want to reduce it to being overrun by a racist mob, feel free.

"Well no, I just don't like liars. You chose to dispute the idea that Clinton was more qualified, and that's where it became obviously partisan….But why don't you take another crack at getting that last word in."

you: "In science, you look at results, and you look for patterns."

"(Remember, you are the guy who said that it "doesn't matter if there is ever a female president." You are endorsing zero as an A-OK number.)"

you just made a political argument at the end there. that's fine, but we had that argument on election day.

"In science, you look at results"

it's not easy i know. if nothing else, i can understand that some people have to see it happen, a woman actually become president, to believe it's possible. that's very human, especially if you're a women living in the world and the guy who won is who he is.

"Kinda like how racism was magically gone forever after Obama was elected?"

"Well no, that's absurd. Women make up half the country"

i love leslie knope and her alter ego amy poehler too. that said, i think the people wondering what we should say to our daughters after this election are missing an enormous opportunity. they should tell them that it doesn't matter if a woman ever becomes president.

i'm particularly troubled with the response of many of the more dejected souls. disappointment i get, but the anger is unsettling. it's just evidence that it's going to be a while, if not several elections before they begin to accept what's right in front of them. trump, for all his faults, brilliantly exploited the…

what it means is that the same issues, prejudices, mistakes, etc. keep getting rehashed in an ongoing loop. when one election ends, the next begins. there are already meetings and people angling for next time. the post mortem on this election has barely begun. modern politics has no beginning or end. it just is.

had a friend post suicide hotlines for people who might consider taking their own lives as the result of the election. tensions are still a little high right now, so i didn't have the heart to point out that the reason people might want to kill themselves over an damned election is because people like her keep…

it's so cute that you're pretending to think the election is over.

the only thing more insufferable than a modern election are the days and weeks that follow its conclusion. no one learns anything.

i still owe a kid from my 6th grade class $100 b/c of game 7 of the '91 word series. i wonder what the interest is on that?

i just caught the end where there was a nice joke about how it was awesome that they had fewer missing ballots this year than last. i thought that was very insightful. i'll have to watch the rest later after i get back from wal-mart.