Oconee County, GA Politics

Rachel Maddow is as close a face to the new American politics as we have right now. She spoke to a packed house at the Woodruff Arts Center's Symphony Hall a couple of Saturday nights ago, and gave a fantastic speech. She read excerpts from her new paperback release of Drift

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OK, it is the Ed show and not Countdown with Keith Olbermann or the Rachel Maddow show, but I knew some national media would hop on this clip. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy

Everytime MSNBC's Keith Olbermann picks out our moronic Congressman as the Worst Person in the World, I keep thinking that voters in the 10th District will suddenly wake up out their collective doldrums and decide we could do a whole lot better and elect someone with a brain, but then the cruel hand of fate slaps me upside the head and reminds me that ignorance is sometimes bliss here. Congressman Broun has slipped to a new low even for him here, and I shake my head in sadness and pity. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy

Having just returned from a long weekend vacation to the northern Iowa lake country near Okoboji, I went through Minneapolis twice and had a friend come down from Duluth traversing over that now collapsed bridge to pick me up at airport. This makes one realize that airlines losing luggage means nothing in the grand scheme of thing. My prayers are with the families in Minnesota. It was remarkable that there was not more carnage on a much grander scale, and I suppose it is a testimony to our survival skills that relatively speaking so few people perished. The TV coverage was initially eerily similar to that of 9/11/01 in terms of the not being able to look away from the train wreck type of fixation. I stayed glued to MSNBC last night with Dan Abrams and Keith Olbermann making a nice alternative to CNN's Wolf Blitzer until about 11 before I went to bed without my usual Daily Show fix. Donate some blood, money or time to the Red Cross or your favorite disaster relief agency. I found i...