Agnes moved to Portland. This change will be good for her I believe. I will miss her too.
Barack Obama was elected president. This is the first time in my life I’ve voted for a winning candidate.
I like this quote from Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist,
“The most important thing that Barack Obama brings to the presidency is his willingness to reason. He won his presidency not as a black American but as a reasoning American who happens to be black. America needs a change from the reign of “obtruding false rules pranked in reason’s garb” — to use John Milton’s words. Attacking Iraq for an imagined link with 9/11 was daft. Having unaffordable health care is not a reasonable way to run a rich society. Destroying the environment is not smart. Spreading the wealth a bit in a deeply unequal society is not as offensive to reason as it appeared to Joe the noncertified Plumber. “
for more: The World’s View of Obama’s Win -courtesy Time Magazine