The Contest: Pick the electoral college winner state-by-state using the Los Angeles Times interactive map. The contestant who comes closest to the actual result wins an iTunes Music Store or Amazon gift certificate. If Jason or I come closest, no one gets the prize.
Deadline is Tuesday 12:01am Eastern Standard Time. Email […]
With the election just a handful of days away, tempers are percolating in all quarters. Two recent incidents offer anecdotal evidence at just how hot things are.
Former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (of the Great Election Theft of 2000&trade) was nearly run over by a fellow Floridian on Tuesday. The perpetrator, Barry […]
Dick Cheney as quoted by Ron Suskind:
Paul O’Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. “You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,” he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: “We […]
A couple of days ago, we mentioned the story that has caused a firestorm of controversy among media pundits and political figures everywhere—the disappearance of 380 tons of high explosives from an Iraq facility. Not only are the explosives—called HMX and RDX—incredibly lethal, but it is speculated that they are the same explosives used in […]
I could watch this all day.
SFist mini interview here. While you’re there, make sure to check out their local SF election coverage.
Look no further.
Thanks to Jason Pan for spotting this one.
When is a documentary filmmaker not a documentary filmmaker? When he’s Brad Maaske of course. But in the Michael Moore age, everyone wants a piece.
Enter Maaske, third to the anti-Moore market with his WMD - The Movie. Maaske is actually a realtor who bought other people’s footage of Iraq and spun it […]
Considering the 2000 debacles of hanging chads and butterfly ballots, you would think that Florida is doing everything possible to make sure the 2004 elections run smoothly.
But then up to 58,000 absentee ballots went missing. Whoops.
Up to 58,000 absentee ballots may never have reached the Broward County voters who requested them more than two […]
“Hmmm…I wonder how drunk Kyle (of Information Leafblower fame) is getting right now?”
As mentioned before, none of us at 1115.org are huge baseball fans. However, we are big fans of never having to hear another reporter or sports guy lament about the “Curse of the Bambino”. Thanks, Red Sox!
