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(Community Matters) Below see selected tweets from last night’s debate. I thought both candidates did well – VP Biden is just too real not to love. Appears polls showing voters think he won.

Martha Radditz was awesome. Sorta baffled that conservative pundits are saying she was biased toward veep. Good gosh, could she have led with a harder opening question for Biden?  As to the commentary that Biden was disrespectful, not presidential because he was smiling – see Churchhill’s quote below, and reminds me of when I can’t help but smiling when I’m listening to a young person either make something up or express an obviously naive position.

A bunch of the tweets from last night:

@JenKirkman Moderator Martha keeps reminding me I want a lady President. She, like most ladies…isn’t lettin’ anyone bullshit around up in heeeyah.

@annie_werner My uterus is gonna dress up as Joe Biden’s smile for Halloween.

Big Bird ‏@BlGBlRD When Romney interrupts, he’s being passionate; when Biden interrupts, he’s rude, say the #GOP. To this I say *BuRrRrRr*. 🙂 #VPDebate

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(Community Matters) Congrats to my dear friend Dr. Frank Schubert on the release of his book on the philosophy of certainty – how certainties are created and how they are sustained by individuals & communities over time

(Community Matters) Jack Welch is a farce, a blemish smudging the reputations of other, responsible corporate CEOs.

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(Community Matters) a very important demographic of undecideds

–STAN GREENBERG tells GREG SARGENT about one danger sign for POTUS: “Greenberg did dial sessions among Colorado swing voters during the debate, and also conducted post-debate questionnaires. He found that unmarried women didn’t respond to Obama’s vow to improve the economy — which they found lacking in a clear overarching message. ‘They heard nothing there that was relevant to them … They were not hearing about … things that Obama would do that affect their lives.’ Romney … succeeded in communicating with unmarried women, Greenberg says, by prefacing talk of his five point plan with an extended discussion of the economic strain of middle-income Americans.” http://wapo.st/ROZLUO

personally, I think we’re now looking at a race as close as it was always expected to be. Partisanship aside, the President should be most feared when his back is against a wall. I find it interesting that friends have been calling asking what they can do to assist in the reelection – hard to believe just 2 weeks ago they thought Ds could coast.

(Community Matters) I think my husband put our bee keeper/gardner/young friend up to sending me this. I’ve been saying no to chickens for several years.

Beau Coop from Neiman Marcus

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from my friend Ginger at Neiman Marcus: [this is] not a coop, but a hen HOUSE – no cooped-up chickens here

(Community Matters) I didn’t realize this was such a serious debate –  substantively helpful for understanding the arguments between the two candidates and their parties

(Community Matters) Kudos to Pflugerville ISD

(Community Matters)  Jonathan Haidt on Fairness in Time Ideas (he’s the author of The Righteous Mind & writes about moral clarity)

There are three major kinds of fairness, and we find that liberals and conservatives value them to different degrees.

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(Community Matters) this sounds fantastic – outdoor cooking classes in Marfa w/ Lou Lambert

(Community Matters) Every year, eagerly awaited, the Dieux Du Stade Calendar. The French rugby team donates proceeds to various charities

Video link: xu21te_teaser-dievx-dv-stade-2013_sport

I don’t much like the video’s soundtrack, turned it down and substituted a Paul Schwartz track

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(Community Matters) Rude house guests, aka Charles Santos!  Sometimes you just don’t know what comes over people. We woke up to this – poor little Chucky hanging from a rope over our pool. What the heck did he do to deserve this? I discreetly tucked him into bed in the guest house so he’d greet and comfort my friends Charles Santos & Rickie Bond when they returned home for the evening. And this is what we wake up to  . . . .

(Community Matters) Super 25th year celebration for AIDS Services of Austin last night at the W Hotel. Dara Gray, Tim Young, Laura Merritt and Joah Spearman produced a top notch evening. Lew Aldridge and Tana/Joe Christie stood out as honorary co-hosts. Very nice that President Obama recognized in a letter the good work of ASA’s staff & volunteers these 25 years. Loved being reminded of Paul Clover (was a miss that didn’t include Michael Fakenthall). And, of course, especially fond of the shout out to Charles Santos & the Austin Festival of Dance. Many kudos to all the staff & volunteers who made this happen, especially Paul Scott & Marianne De Leon.

Steven and I enjoyed sharing a table with Charles Santos, Rickie Bond, George & Cindy Santos, John Phillip & Francis Santos, and Amy & Kirk Rudy.