Archive for October, 2006
Disjoint Thoughts
Over the last three or four years, we have somehow come to accept it as perfectly normal that the people at the very top of the Bush administration – including, at the very least, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld – are and always will be seriously out of touch with reality. [...]
U4EA
Nov 7th, 2006: The Complete First Season: DVD: Beverly Hills 90210 Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
The Continuing War on Straw
For a time, it seems like all I ever did here was bash CNN and their clueless buffoon of a President Jonathan Klein. It became more than I could really take, so I just stopped watching. Over the past week, they’ve been running a very interesting new series called “Broken Government” focused on a variety [...]
How To Catch a Football
Nullus. (via John) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Clinton in SF – DCCC Fundraiser
For those in the Bay Area, the DCCC is holding a fundraiser at The Warfield this Wednesday, November 1 featuring Bill Clinton. Musical guests include Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and others. It’s $100, which is cheap as far as events like this go. If anyone is planning to go, let me know. If my schedule [...]
Irony Has Left the Building
U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties – New York Times (10/28/06): The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez. [...] The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan [...]
Life Imitates The West Wing
NYT – Democrats Get Late Donations From Business (10/28/06): Corporate America is already thinking beyond Election Day, increasing its share of last-minute donations to Democratic candidates and quietly devising strategies for how to work with Democrats if they win control of Congress. The shift in political giving, for the first 18 days of October, has [...]
The Rise to Riches Surprised the Bitches
“That’s the fuckin’ game, yo.” Bodie on The Wire Over the last few days, I’ve heard from a number of readers regarding my suggestions to donate to Democrats ahead of the upcoming elections. I wanted to address something that one person brought up: I’m disappointed that you are soliciting donations from 1115 readers. Our political [...]
T-Tennessee
“Outta the country and into more country Past Dyesburg into Ripley Where the ghost of childhood haunts me Walk the roads my forefathers walked Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from Ask those trees for all their wisdom They tell me my ears are so young (home) Go back to from whence you came (home) [...]
Put Yourself In Their Shoes
President Bush on Wednesday: There’s a lot of people still furious about what happened to them during Saddam Hussein‘s period. You can imagine that. What happens if your brother or sister had been assassinated by Saddam Hussein and his political party? You’d be — you wouldn’t be happy about it. Reconciliation is difficult in a [...]