Today's Papers

This picture was on the BBC's Africa page. It's a Kenyan newspaper proclaiming victory for their "Super Power Son." I love it. Kenya has just come through an electoral nightmare, where open political debate turned into murder, arson, and chaos. (Think of our Kiva woman who disappeared.) Now, a man with a Kenyan father is one of two people who could be president of the United States. That's something.

The New York Times has two opinion pieces about the Democratic nominees. Gail Collins wrote a piece about Hillary Clinton that I think you would like, and I teared up reading the Bob Herbert piece about Obama. (Being the goofball that I am...) You have to get to the end to read "So a victory lap is in order. Not for Senator Obama (he still has a way to go), but for all those in every station in life who ever refused to submit quietly to hatred and oppression. They led us to a better place."

There's also a review of Dr. John's new album that's really more of an essay on New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

And, there's an article on the BBC about a woman who overdosed on licorice. Who knew?

Oh, and if you ever wondered if elevators could be something besides squares & rectangles, you could read the Atlantic article about Frank Lloyd Wright's building in Oklahoma, where he made the elevators into hexagons. Pretty neat (although you'll have to find the magazine for that, they haven't posted the article online yet -- sorry!).