The Very Rich Hours of the Lambrights

Wow, I haven’t updated the blog since Election Day.  There are reasons, of course.  The big one being the move we made in November.  But I’m not here to talk about that tonight.  I don’t have much to say about today’s inauguration.  I’m deeply pleased that President Obama’s term has begun.  I don’t know if [...]

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Election Day is finally here.  It’s too early to have much in the way of results but I’ll keep an eye on the TV tonight in hopes of good news.  I voted late this morning, around 11:00, and had no problems.  No lines, no confusion–everything went pretty well.  I’m curious to hear how it went [...]

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Quick update on something I wrote about several weeks ago:  An Alaska judge has ruled that it was inappropriate for Governor Palin to conduct any state business using her personal Yahoo email account and ordered that the email be preserved so that any messages related to state government can be released in accordance withthe state’s public [...]

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Most of you have probably already heard that Governor Palin’s Yahoo email account got hacked.  By all accounts, a high school kid used a pretty basic method to change her password.  This shows that the password retrieval system in use at Yahoo (and most other free email providers) works reasonably well for normal people but [...]

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My friend Mary Beth sent me this link to a blog post about Sarah Palin.  The author is firmly in the Republican camp so it gives one (not necessarily the only) view from the other side.  I must say that I don’t care for the idea that our elected officials are just “empty suits” into [...]

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I was planning to write up something with my reaction to tonight’s presidential debate but I didn’t get to see it.  As most of you know, Nicole works nights and with two little girls to take care of I cannot just sit down and watch 90 minutes of debate at 8:00 PM.  That’s bedtime.  So [...]

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Sarah Palin.  Like her or hate her, you’ve got to admit she has shaken things up.  As you probably know, I’m a rabid Democrat so I tend to be a little skeptical about her.  But that’s not the point of this post.  Others have covered that ground pretty well.
What I don’t understand is the wild [...]

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…during the week of the Democratic Convention.  As a political junkie, I’ve been enjoying coverage even if I’m not spending much time just sitting and watching.  It’s more like background noise that I pay attand ention to when the whim strikes.  That means my observations will probably seem pretty fragmented and random.
Saw most of Michelle [...]

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It’s all over the web that Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold) is being sued by the state of Ohio over the performance of their electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections.  Apparently, a lot of votes were lost.  Premier’s official explanation is that McAfee Antivirus was installed on the computers and caused the [...]

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One of my pet peeves is the way that the media, particularly TV news, covers presidential elections.  Here’s the usual sequence:
1)  Candidate A makes some outrageous statement or runs an ad that is probably not accurate.
2)  The news programs spend hours debating why the candidate made that statement and how it’s likely to affect the [...]

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