CNN went all Star Wars on viewers election night with Princess Leia stand-in Jessia Yellin reporting via hologram. Help us Barack Obama, you're our only hope!
- Come on Hillsborough, this is ridiculous.
- Election day was ugly for supporters of gay marriage.
- Next move in the modern civil rights battle: Lawsuits.
- It's all over but the recounting.
- What's up in North Carolina and Missouri?
- Newsweek keeps things upbeat with "horror stories" from previous presidential transitions.
- "Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress."
- R.I.P. Michael Crichton.
- You heard the one about the woman who ran a mile with a fox chewing on her arm?
This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2008.