Man, have the last two days been something else!  I’m so glad the majority of voting Americans decided that hope and change were better options than fear and irrationality.  One thing I’m concerned about is the anti-intellectualism in this country.  It’s like academics, science, and reason are being dismissed because they don’t conform to some political ideology.  We need to look at the natural world with objective eyes, and I think that’s the hope that Obama brings to us.  Real problems need to be identified and solved with real solutions and not ideologically shoehorned into solutions for problems that either do exist (our economy, terrorism) or are constructs of irrational fear (immigration, evolution, homophobia, pre-war Iraq).  I’m happy that we’ll have someone in the White House who is intellectually curious, embraces reasoned debate, and trusts science and all that science does for us.

I’m also very glad that Sarah Palin was roundly rejected.  No other figure in this election, save George W Bush himself, embodied anti-intellectualism and an incurious mind as she did.  In fact, I think you’ll start seeing other Republicans throwing her under the bus:  oh wait, it’s already happened, and on Fox News of all places:

Currently, no single character on the national stage garners less respect from me than her.  She has no respect for history, science, or reason.  If you look up political low-life, you will find a picture of Sarah Palin (well, in the next edition of Websters…).  I will make it my mission, that unless she changes and sees the error of her irrational ways, to campaign against this woman and make sure she never gets so close to the corridors of national power.

I look forward to the next 8 years…