Countdown to Electiony: 20 Days

20 years ago, a young black atheist lawyer decided to join the Trinity United Church of Christ at a time that just so happened to coincide with his first forays into political life.

And that ended up working out so well for him.

Countdown to Electiony: 22 Days

I'll bet this Biblical passage is getting pretty popular amongst Fundamentalist Christian Republicans these days…

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
- Psalm 22

Countdown to Electiony: 26 Days

Here's some things you might not have known about battleground state Michigan…

Did you know that it was the 26th state to join the union. Why, that makes it, um… almost exactly not noteworthy enough to justify mention.

Okay, it's also got some fantastic cities like Ann Arbor, Detroit and the fossilized husk of Flint. So, that's something, right?

Hey, some really famous people came out of Michigan. Like Michael Moore and Kid Rock and… Oh, and Matthew Tobey.

Okay, listen, Michigan is still a really important state. Or, so I hear.

Go back to Day 27.

Countdown to Electiony: 27 Days

Did you know that there are 27 articles in the Constitution of the United States?

Personally, I'm not impressed.

Cat Fancy publishes almost that many articles every month.

Countdown to Electiony: 28 Days

It was 28 years ago that Captain John Sidney McCain left his wife of 15 years — Carol McCain (nee Shepp), a former model who had some years before been disfigured in a car-accident — to marry a richly beautiful, and beautifully rich, beer heiress named Cindy Lou Hensley, whom he'd met in a bar in Hawaii a year earlier.

The two have gone on to become the stuff of family values fairy tales.