Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll Dies

Our Lt. Governor, Catherine Baker Knoll, has died following her battle with cancer.

Key facts:

· 1930-2008, of McKees Rocks

· Sworn in Jan. 21, 2003

· 30th lieutenant governor

· First elected female Lt. Governor

· St. Mary’s High School alumnus

· Served eight years as state treasurer, winning huge % of statewide vote

· Formerly schoolteacher, businesswoman

· Had four children with

Continued

The last swing of the boom

After living through sixteen years of two Presidents’ terms, the Baby Boomer generation appears to have run its Presidential course. When Obama, on his way over to Grant Park for his election night event, emailed his millions of plugged-in supporters, he wrote “We just made history.”

As Damien Cave noted:

With that simple “we” in millions

Continued

Center-Right No More

Liberal economist (and Nobel winner) Paul Krugman states his case that the “center-right nation” meme is a canard:

Did progressives get a mandate from last week’s election? Lots of people would like to claim that they didn’t — that we’re still a “center-right nation.” And one of the assertions you hear to back that claim is

Continued

Quote of the Day — 9/3/08

A Vice President who likes guns? What could be wrong with that?

– David Letterman

Have we misunderestimated George W Bush?

Not bloody likely.

From the Independent:

Four months before he disappears into the Texas sunset, Bush is the least loved president of modern times. He will step down with the US embroiled in two unpopular wars, up to its eyes in debt, its economy sliding into recession, its moral standing in the world deeply damaged.

Not even Harry

Continued