Harris Versus Trump: The New Presidential Horse Race
So how do things stand now? Well, to answer that, the Toteboard needs to plunge into a little bit of electoral history (of course).
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- Mar 5, 2023
- 5 min
The Monsters are Still on Maple Street
Sixty-three years ago today, CBS first aired the classic Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” one of Rod...
- Nov 18, 2022
- 7 min
Post-Midterm Postmortem: That Was the Election That Was
Now that the midterms are ten days in the rear-view mirror, even as a handful of House races are still undecided, it’s clear that the...
- Jul 2, 2021
- 6 min
If it Quacks like a Racist . . .
Now that MLB’s decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia has inextricably linked baseball and voting rights, the Toteboard has...
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
Talk to the Toteboard: Results of Reader Surveys!
As some of you may recall, the Toteboard for the first time recently offered you, its loyal readers (or not), an opportunity to enter the...
- Jan 25, 2021
- 10 min
The Sorry Legacy of the Trump Era
With the inauguration of Joe Biden, the swearing in of three ethnically iconic democratic senators, the expulsion of Trump from the White...
- Jan 13, 2021
- 4 min
Once Upon a Time in Georgia
At an educational institution in GA a couple of months ago, the full faculty voted on whether or not to change an important policy, one...
- Jan 9, 2021
- 2 min
Burnt Bridges
When Saddam Hussein realized that his defeat was imminent in the first Gulf War, he ordered his troops to ignite hundreds of Kuwaiti oil...
- Jan 7, 2021
- 8 min
Karma is a Bitch!
Buddhist mythology depicts an elaborate network of colorful realms where beings may go in their next life, as the result of the...
- Jan 4, 2021
- 7 min
Georgia Eve: Preview From Ground Zero!
In some ways, it’s very fitting that tomorrow’s senate runoff elections and Wednesday’s counting of the electoral votes more or less...
- Dec 3, 2020
- 12 min
Election Reflection, Part II: How Did Everybody Do?
Note: this is the second of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. It is now exactly one month since election day, almost all...
- Nov 14, 2020
- 7 min
Election Reflection, Part I: Omens of Chaos
Note: this is the first of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. Some thirty years ago, a friend was speaking candidly about...
- Nov 2, 2020
- 7 min
One Minute to Midnight, Two Minutes to Sunrise?
(HELP US MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT!) Well, the election is tomorrow, and we’ll know in a day, or a few days (or a few weeks), whether or...
- Oct 27, 2020
- 6 min
One Week to Midnight: What Will We Know, and When Will We Know It?
So why is this election night different from all other election nights? Yes, the Toteboard is intentionally invoking the trope for the...
- Oct 20, 2020
- 6 min
Two Weeks to Midnight: Reflections on a House Divided
In honor of the college students who are taking midterm exams on campuses all over the country (thanks to their morally compromised...
- Oct 13, 2020
- 7 min
Three Weeks to Midnight ("Oh, What a State . . . ")
Sixty-odd years ago, an old-time radio “singing comic” and former vaudevillian named Orville “Andy” Andrews reinvented himself as the...
- Oct 6, 2020
- 8 min
Senate Update (four weeks to go)
The election is exactly four weeks away, the vice-presidential debate is coming tomorrow, and it’s time for an update on the state of the...
- Sep 30, 2020
- 3 min
Biden Comes to Debate, Trump Comes to Debase . . . Himself, and the Country
As people of sound mind try to shake off the shell-shock of last night’s “debate” and process what this all means for the election, and for
- Sep 3, 2020
- 7 min
Two Months to Midnight!
The election is exactly two months away today, and the upcoming Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of the unofficial campaign season....
- Apr 16, 2020
- 5 min
November 2020 Preview!
With the entire world hip deep in covid-19, everyone’s Netflix queue entirely exhausted by now, and family members fighting over who gets...
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