Said Frank Rich in a column quoted just bothering yesterday on S’Plot:

After so many years of fear and loathing, we had almost forgotten what it’s like to feel good about our country. On Thursday night, that long-dormant emotion came rushing back, like an old dream that pops out of the deepest recesses of memory, suddenly as clear as light. “They said this day would never come,” said Barack Obama, and yet here, right before us, was indisputable evidence that it had.

And now, just as suddenly, back to being as opaque as dark. I wish to note that Dar Williams grew up in the Northeast and yet never wrote a song as pretty as “Iowa” about New Hampshire.

Also, somebody asked about the syllabus for my undergrad class. Link here. The grading system represents a kind of experiment in course design for me, derived from trying to think quite specifically about what I wanted from the students in the course and then figuring out appropriate incentives. The other experiment is to have a topic for each day and, regardless of how far I actually get into the material I prepared on that topic, moving on to the next topic the next day.