That one

Blowing off “Almanac” last Friday and going to the Guthrie Theater instead seemed like a good way to put an end to an exhausting political campaign season. We got rush tickets to the penultimate performance of Arthur Miller’s play “A View from the Bridge,” ready to be transported to working-class Brooklyn purely for the escapism, without a thought to exit poll demographics. At first, it seemed to be working. Then one line at the play’s climactic scene brought it all back, unwelcome and unbidden.

Less than 24 hours after the presidential town hall meeting, someone’s immortalized John McCain’s reference to Barack Obama as “that one” in a button and a website. And while on the topic of campaign buttons, this minimalist design speaks to an aesthetics-minded (although possibly small) niche audience. (There’s a Palin version, but, fittingly, it doesn’t [...]