2008
May
Margins of Victory Map
May 22nd
Swing State Polls
May 22nd
I don’t feel obligated to let strangers vandalize my site,...
— Marco on comments I once...
May 22nd
johnbrissenden: What did I put in with my washing to make the machine sound like it’s about to...
May 22nd
Watch
This helped me recover from my homeopathic-style disgruntlement.
May 22nd
Homeopathic-style? Tom of Maine, you are now dead to me.
May 22nd
Obama Adopted by Native Americans
May 22nd
Little Orphan Artworks.
bunnynico: “Congress is considering a major reform of copyright law intended to solve the problem...
May 22nd
Why don’t you meet me for dinner on Wednesday in my...
— - Part of my latest response...
May 21st
The voters had their say...
Barack Obama has now won a majority of the pledged delegates. Clinton’s only recourse is...
May 21st
The problem with anonymity
The problem with anonymity is that you can’t take credit for it. There are all sorts of posts...
May 20th
Sometimes the expressed will of the voters is disregarded by...
— John McCain on Roper v....
May 20th
On Sunday, U.S-Iraqi forces increased a parallel operation...
— The Associated Press: Iraq...
May 20th
On "the Issues," specifically,...
SDS and I have been having a comment discussion on whether Obama (who I think everybody will agree...
May 20th
Helpful hints on rain barrels from local blogger...
May 20th
An US plane headed to Tempelhof to deliver supplies to...
May 20th
Chocolate
sisterpearl: On top of it all, my husband rearranged the kitchen, which made me temporarily unable...
May 20th
I also think these folks should lay off my wife.
— Barack Obama Seriously. Are...
May 20th
Sen. Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our...
— John McCain Come on, McCain. ...
May 19th
Byrd endorses Obama
May 19th
If we had same rules as the Republicans, I would be the...
— Hillary Clinton, arguing for...
May 19th
I’ll concede, you cannot meet with foreign leaders —...
— Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr....
May 19th
75,000 people CNN gave the helpful headline, “Massive...
May 19th
116
— - # of additional delegates...
May 19th
It’s hard to make sure rabbits can never get into your garden. But it’s easy to make...
May 18th
Most of us would never deliberately choose our own material...
— We Shop, They Drop (via...
May 18th
That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He’s...
— Mike Huckabee Huckabee...
May 18th
Who’s The Real Appeaser? | Fareed Zakaria
May 18th
I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life is going...
— The text of the latest spam to...
May 17th
TIME Magazine Cover: And The Winner* Is… - May 19,...
May 17th
People's Mujahedin of Iran - Wikipedia
May 16th
Dear God! A man who shops, who has actually been to a...
— Carolyn’s response to...
May 16th
If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about...
— Barack Obama I’m looking...
May 16th
Clinton is playing nice
May 16th
California Court Affirms Right to Gay...
May 15th
We seem to have arrived at an equitable compromise: Sen....
— Josh Marshall (via fuddmain)...
May 15th
Next, please
A post back, I asked people to explain to me why they thought meeting with Iran (as Obama proposes)...
May 15th
By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the...
— John McCain It doesn’t...
May 15th
Bush suggests Obama wants ‘appeasement’ of...
May 15th
Jerusalem Countown: Ch. 3 Unveiling Islam
May 15th
Cindy McCain Sells Sudan Investments
May 15th
It won't be Obama/Edwards
Edwards’ endorsement came too late in the game to carry a lot of bargaining power, so I...
May 14th
Edwards to Endorse Obama - The Caucus - New...
May 14th
Mississippi Fallout
May 14th
More on Rain Barrels
andrklein: Three words: mosquito breeding ground. I think this is a great idea. However, some type...
May 14th
Consider a Rain Barrel
A rain barrel is a relatively simple idea. Normally the water from your roof would run into a storm...
May 14th
As expected, I lost the Favourite Original Graphic Novel of...
— Rich Burlew, the artist behind...
May 14th
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners...
May 13th
Were Americans deceived into the Iraq...
There’s a common perceptiont that the Bush administration somehow decieved the public in the...
May 13th
4
— - # of new Superdelegates...
May 13th
18,000 buried under debris in China
May 13th
Once in a while, I have the sort of day that I can’t...
May 13th
Are you feeling it too?
It’s a rough day to be human.
May 12th
NY Times: Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes...
May 12th
'Elitist' Tag Knocks Education
May 12th
(via roseann) This is true. I had an Obama pin on while...
May 12th
OpenOffice just changed “naive” to “naïve” for me. Then its spellcheck...
May 12th
Watch
Hillary Clinton’s message top the superdelegates, according to Saturday Night Live.
May 11th
Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have...
— Moses, to God in Numbers...
May 11th
How did everyone all of a sudden become an armchair...
— Another Unreliable Witness: on...
May 11th
What is the most erotic word in the...
bunnynico: abscond (with friends and relatives offering smock, viral, and aplomb) johnbrissenden: ...
May 11th
4
— # of Superdelegates whose...
May 11th
Mills on Madness
May 10th
Is It Time to Invade Burma? - TIME
May 10th
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote...
— Tom Stoppard in Travesties. I...
May 10th
How Toxic is Hamas?
Robert Malley, a member of a conflict-resolution think-tank, has been in contact with Hamas. ...
May 10th
Bad idea?
marco: Know those moving-sidewalk things at airports? Whose idea was it to make the belt on the...
May 10th
Watch
“So do the right thing, Bert, and vote Obama.” (I’m going to go with this one not...
May 10th
Bracing for West Virginia
I’ve been reading a bit on Tuesday’s West Virginia Primary. With 28 delegates at stake...
May 9th
Seth Brown - One born every minute
May 9th
Clothing and Communication
jessicagoldharalson, jessicalouise and others are having an … animated discussion about...
May 9th
Let's Stop Saying "Racist"
Once again, I’ve decided that a commonly used word is causing more harm than good. Very few...
May 9th
The worst thing in the world is when an entertainer doesn’t...
— Al Sharpton
May 9th
Stalag fiction was a short-lived genre of Israeli fiction...
— Stalag fiction - Wikipedia,...
May 9th
IN CARTOONS there is often a moment when a hapless...
— The Democrats | Almost there |...
May 8th
[T]he preferred generic term for a Tumblr site is “a...
— Marco I hate to correct you,...
May 8th
85%
— The proportion of the...
May 8th
The National Review Apparently has Low...
May 8th
I blogged up your Tumblr.
— Carolyn, explaining that she...
May 8th
Is thoroughbred racing cruel?
janemarcus: squashed: Mostly, they are very well taken care of—and sometimes they die doing what...
May 8th
To all you amateur economists out...
What are your thoughts on inherited wealth? Is it somebody’s right to dispose of their...
May 8th
The media is an echo chamber
I had an interesting experience over the weekend. I went from door to door in some of the less...
May 7th
A strange possibility in Indiana
All the networks have called the race for Hillary with a slim, but fairly comfortable margin for...
May 7th
Can felons vote?
— This was perhaps the most...
May 7th
Mildred Loving, Who Fought Ban on Mixed...
May 6th
The Bush-McCain Challenge
May 5th
I use the library like a pirate uses a bar wench after six...
— Carolyn, who now has 136 books...
May 5th
I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.
— Hillary Clinton defends her...
May 4th
Eight Belles and Thousands More
May 4th
Native Dancer’s line has a tragic flaw. Thanks in part...
— Racing’s Royal Bloodline...
May 4th
Is thoroughbred racing cruel?
jessicagoldharalson: Forgive me for sounding like a goddamn hippie, but how is it not unethical to...
May 4th
7 votes
— Obama’s margin of...
May 4th
Zogby Poll: Obama now leading in Indiana,...
May 3rd
The letter I sent to the other Ann Arbor...
A win Indiana, which (incidentally) borders Michigan, could seal the nomination for Barack.I spent...
May 3rd
Charleston fired upon the island from three of its cannons....
— Capture of Guam - Wikipedia,...
May 3rd
Local News in Guam
May 3rd
Gas Tax Holiday
The latest idiocy to come out of the Presidential race is a proposal for a gas tax Holiday this...
May 3rd
[A]lso we didn’t want [Saddam Hussein] to have control...
— McCain: Remarks on oil not...
May 3rd
That Louis Vuitton law suit? Probably the best thing that...
— Carolyn on this.
May 2nd
One more observation on election polls
While Clinton’s been gaining on Obama over the last few days, McCain has been plummetting. I...
May 2nd
Clinton’s local surrogates just complained that Gary...
— The District That May Decide...
May 1st
Iran has lodged a formal protest at the United Nations about...
— The Caucus - Politics - New...
May 1st
A Cold Spring Day
Today is damp, dreary, and uninspiring. Time to make coffee.
May 1st
As with other problems our nation has faced, states have...
— John McCain’s disaster...
May 1st
Primary News
For those who are not sick of news on the primary, two interesting things have happened over the...
May 1st
dihard (through bunnynico) In an effort to prove that a...
May 1st
Listen
First of May, by Jonathan Coulton. If you don’t know Jonathan Coulton, check out his music,...
May 1st
[Elizabeth] Edwards has given a series of speeches in which...
— The Folly of McCain-Care
May 1st
Apr
Fine, I'll go to Indiana
I’ve talked a big game on supporting Obama. I’ve made my small donations and encouraged...
Apr 30th
Aides said that [Clinton] had a driver’s license and that...
— The Caucus - New York Times...
Apr 30th
The Right, Wright, and Wrong
mills wrote a long, thoughtful, and more or less spot on post partially reacting to my post on...
Apr 30th
I’m hoping to lighten the mood after that last post.
Apr 30th
America's Chickens
Reverend Wright’s reappearance in the news is unfortunate for those of us who support Obama. ...
Apr 30th
Watch
Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks at NAACP Here’s Obama’s “crazy” pastor making...
Apr 29th
$2,300,000,000.00
— Hillary Clinton’s...
Apr 29th
I served six years in the military. Does that make me...
— Jeremiah Wright (via azspot,...
Apr 29th
Watch
This is the anti-McCain ad the DNC is trying to run. The RNC is sending out cease and desist orders...
Apr 29th
Whither Indiana?
A week from today Indiana has the next seriously contested primary. This is Clinton’s chance...
Apr 29th
The Atlasphere: Ayn Rand Dating & Networking
Apr 29th
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition
In my continuing search for historical evidence of Pierre Bousquet, aka Pierre the Pansy Pirate, I...
Apr 28th
We have always trusted in ourselves to meet any challenge...
— John McCain on...
Apr 28th
McCain promised to work to transform the health care system...
— CNN.com Tolitical Ticker Great...
Apr 28th
marco: We should start an Apple rumor. They just did a minor iMac update, but it’s only Monday. If...
Apr 28th
New Distraction: Is McCain a "Natural Born"...
Apr 28th
I’d totally go in for pizza made with grease instead...
— Carolyn
Apr 28th
When I wear dresses, it’s because I want to look cute, not...
— ALL THAT GLITTERS, in a post...
Apr 27th
Are biofuels bad?
There’s been a lot of hating on biofuels lately—and I’m not sure it’s...
Apr 27th
We’re going to hit some of those balls out of this stadium...
— Hillary Clinton, attempting a...
Apr 27th
Minimum Rage
I have it on good authority that my previous post contained an implausible hypothetical about...
Apr 26th
jakoblodwick: A $5 minimum wage is essentially a ban on the...
Apr 26th
Dear Internet: What kind of plant is this? There’s a...
Apr 25th
It is probably the way Nixon felt after getting so narrowly...
— Ben on how Clinton must feel...
Apr 25th
But what if you don’t have the energy to type a whole...
— Joel Stein, “Pride comes...
Apr 25th
Clinton's "New Math"
After her 9.2% win in Pennsylvania, Clinton is claiming that “more people voted for...
Apr 25th
For a place itself is always a kind of motion, A part of it...
— from Robert Pinsky, An...
Apr 25th
New Chemical Weapon 'Ennui Gas' Induces...
Apr 25th
Here’s a pair of CNN.com headlines. CNN has some real...
Apr 24th
Linguistic Relativity
Dailymeh has called me to account for my claim that “Our words define how we think about...
Apr 24th
Word revocation: "Men" and "Women"
Our words influence how we think about things. They give us the ability to group things and...
Apr 24th
On to ... Indiana?
Reading all the primary analysis tells me to look forward to the next major primary in Indiana. ...
Apr 24th
Margins of Victory After Pennsylvania, I thought I’d...
Apr 24th
Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault
Apr 23rd
marco: If you’re an Obama supporter and can afford to do so, consider donating to his campaign...
Apr 23rd
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