Tha mi ‘faicinn gu bheil iomadh (agus nuair a sgrìobhas mi iomadh, ‘se iomadh a tha mi mìneachadh!) leabhraichean-latha air DailyKos air cuspair Bharack Obama is Hillary Clinton. Agus ged a tha tè neo dhà dhiubh math gu leòr, tha e soillear gu bheil a’ mhòr chuid dhiubh ‘nan suidhe air àite air choireagan eadar "gun fheum" agus "pìos càc". Ach chan eil mi a’ gearain, oir ‘se pìos càc gun fheum a tha an leabhar-latha seo gu dearbh!

Nise, tha 3 puingean agam ri dhèanamh:

The results should start coming in momentarily for the elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. Here is a brief overview of the two bodies and the parties that are represented in them.

Election results and coverage can be found here, here, and here, for Scotland, and here for Wales. Or try the BBC site for both countries.

UPDATE: I will post any changes in seats below the fold, at the bottom
UPDATE 2 (12:30 AM EST): Feh, I'm going to bed. We'll see how things look  in the morning
UPDATE 3 (1:00 PM EST): Final results in, updated below

I was just sitting here thinking that there haven’t been enough diaries on Imus.

I’ve been surprised to see so many of the Imus diaries either defending him in some way, or else focusing their critique on the critique ("outraged by the outrage" in a sense). It’s occasionally (ok, frequently) gotten to the point of acrimony, which I find both troubling and fascinating, given that opposition to racism and bigotry is one thing you would think all Kossacks would agree on. It seems clear that the problem isn’t that some of us are "pro-racism", but that there is disagreement on what words like "race" and "racist" really mean, what they imply, when they apply, and what consequences flow from the words we may or may not consider racist.

The frustrating thing of it is that the topic is too damn complex to tackle in a lousy little diary. By necessity I’m going to use a lot of shorthand here, which leaves me open to valid charges of generalizing and simplifying. But I don’t see any other way, so here goes. I want to start by addressing some of the arguments made by the folks who are either partially defending Imus or otherwise less bothered by his comments than by the reaction to them.

Will the outrages never cease? As if a Spanish version of the US national anthem weren't bad enough (not to mention Yiddish and Polish versions), it turns out the uppity Scotch have one too:

O am faic sibh gu moch an am bristeadh an tràth'
A ni dh'fhàg sinn fo uaill 'n am dol fodha na gréine,
Le chuid rionnagan soills' 'us na sgrìoban breac bàn
Thar an daighnich bho 'n àird troimh gach gàbhadh 'us éiginn?
'S gach ional-càtha 's gach fuaim bh' anns an iarmailt mu'n cuairt
Thug dhuinn dearbhadh troimh 'n oidhch' gu robh bhratach sin suas;
O! am bheil fathast a' bhratach air bheil breacadh nan reult
Os cionn dachaidh sluagh saor 'us àit' còmhnuidh nan treun?

Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh ha ha ha ha ha!

I'm sorry, this is too funny, especially after watching Sam Seder's dismantling of the phony War on Christmas. "They tortured an elf"!

Anyway...

There have been several diaries noting the apparent hypocrisy of Bill o'Reilly and Fox News screaming about the anti-Christmas agenda of the nation's leading retailers (oooh ha ha ha ha ha!), whilst simultaneously offering up lots of "Holiday" cheer on their websites.

Bill O'Reilly is making his annual big stink about how the forces of multiculturalism and political correctness are forcing everyone to exorcise the word "Christmas" from their vocabulary. Phrases like "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Holidays" are apparently the inventions of the Christmas-hating, anti-Christian left. This bogeyman is coming to your town, forcing you to decorate your "holiday tree" with "tinsel" and "popcorn", rather than the more traditional "Jesus's eyelashes" and "Christ corn".

But where does Bill O'Reilly stand on the equally pressing problem of the secularization of Thanksgiving?

Finally, here's the last in the series: Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: New Jersey and New York.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: Georgia and Florida.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: Mississippi and Alabama.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: Kentucky and Tennessee

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: Arkansas and Louisiana.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next three up: Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.