Tonight in Seattle:  

Hopeful, nervous, proud, optimistic, worried...

The New York times has a really cool election tag cloud of sorts right now.

It's all user-generated: you can select if you're an Obama supporter or a McCain supporter, and then pick one word to describe your current state of mind. The words dynamically update and move across the screen, with the most frequently used words appearing larger and across the top.

The best part is sorting by candidate. Look at the screenshots I  just took and guess who's happier today...

Obama:

Obama! 

McCain:

McCAin! 

My word? Schadenfreude.

That's a really cool site. Thanks!

my word: awesome. (of course)

I'm not normally on the side of Schadenfreude, striving to be a humanist. But joyfully watching the inhumane fail at maintaining the brutality of eight years of calculated disorder and crimes against humanity is the most universally compassionate thing to do now.

I have a hard time feeling schadenfreude. I mostly feel pity for anyone who would be "terrified" or "disgusted" by the potential result of this election: many of those same people are precisely the ones hurt by the policies of the past 8 years.

That said, I did pose as a McCain supporter and added the word foolish.

Hahaha! Good man, Michael.

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