Oddly, the blogosphere is pretty quiet

On most days, my RSS reader is filled with posts from the blogs I read frequently (see sidebar to the left). I find it very odd that today, of all days, the blogosphere is fairly quiet. I’ve read some interesting chatter from Volokh, but not much else. Even Above the Law is fairly quiet.  I guess everyone slept in after taking the day off yesterday to wait in long lines and then staying up late to watch the anti-climactic thrilling election coverage.

President-Elect Barack Obama

An historic event occurred tonight. While I try to remain politically neutral on this blog (and have taken others to task for straying too far into partisan politics), I feel it would be wrong not to acknowledge it.

Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama.

President-Elect Obama ran a near-perfect campaign for 18 months. He stayed true to a message to which the American electorate responded in droves. While I am not an Obama supporter on ideological grounds, I hope that President-Elect Obama will honor his campaign promises of change, fiscal responsibility and discipline, and tax breaks for the true “middle class,” and that he will work with all Americans – left, right and that muddled center to which most of us belong – to forge a better future.

He would do well to heed to words of two of his predecessors – Thomas Jefferson:

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

and John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.

E Pluribus Unum

Vote!

And make sure you vote across the board- not just the Big One.

Sue Magazine?

Is it:

a)  A Magazine for Johnny Cash fans;

b) A Magazine for creepy geriatric sex expert Sue Johanson;

c) A Magazine for Women Litigators; or

d)  The fourth sign of the Apocalypse.

You can’t make this stuff up.  H/T to Above the Law.