Jesse Jackson was in Ohio yesterday talking up the recount. Considering the excellent job he did calming everyone down in Florida in 2000, that makes me nervous. But he is bringing up some interesting calculations based on comparing Kerry’s vote total to that of C. Ellen Connally, an African-American Democratic candidate from Cleveland for Ohio […]

Kerry may have conceded a loss in this year’s election, but the spectre of the illegitimacy is once again lurking around Bush’s second term as commander-in-chief.
Despite a virtual mainstream media blackout on the subject, investigations are taking place around the country (particularly in battleground states like Florida, Ohio, and New Mexico) into allegations of […]

Ohio voter groups have called for a statewide walkout and protest in Columbus as the US presidential election hinges on thousands of provisional ballots and claims of disenfranchisement.
After a day of huge turnout and widespread reports of voting irregularities [1 | 2 | 3] the polls closed in Ohio with a margin of fewer than […]

I was recently walking into a chain-styled bar/restaraunt here in Toledo with my friend Sean to get some lunch before band practice. We were animately debating the value of a variety of early hardcore records - Black Flag, Minor Threat, Necros, Void, etc. - when we pulled open the doors. As we sat down, Sean […]