24 September 2008

- Are the Numbers Real? -

Does McCain know something we don't? Otherwise, why is he acting like someone who is 15 points behind in the polls?

These are increasingly desperate measures he's trying, and not at all the sort of thing you'd expect of someone who is down only a couple of points at this point in the race. So either the polling numbers he is seeing are a lot worse than the ones we are seeing or Obama has gotten seriously inside of McCain's head.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope