It's probably a mistake to write anything before 9 a.m. But I need to test some security tweaks I'm making to the blogging software, so you, the reader, get to suffer with me.

I fell asleep with radio news in my ear, which was a mistake. I woke up to hear that Obama, if he gets elected, will be the third African American in the Senate in the last 100 years. That reminded me that, once again, we will have a white guy for President and a white guy for Vice President, no matter what the outcome. How can we be so self-congratulatory about our freedoms when our political system produces these results?

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In the mid-90's, I was a staffer at Columbia University, watching and waging the crypto wars. There were no blogs then, but I often posted updates on the Web about the FUD of the day, since there was so much FUD to go around.

Now FUD takes a new form, in this post-9/11 era. Welcome to RNC 2004...

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