Month: December 2003

Three Comments/Links

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1). I personally feel that even by the low standards of crank calling, this is lame and geeky, and not in a good way. Via Balloon Juice. 2). Amazing how quickly Marxists can sound sensible when they’re saying the same things you were, huh? – only with a lot more spleen and righteous indignation. Surprised … Read more

Random Commentary

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As you may have noticed, the blogroll has been cut up – as near as I can tell and remember – into all of our particular choices. I’ve added another one which will be added to based on various suggestions that either I or one of the other bloggers agree upon.

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Congress to NY: Drop Dead

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Yeah, I know, that headline’s been done to death. But according to this Daily News article, New York is 49th in the country for per capita homeland security spending. (Wyoming comes in first.) Is this accurate? The Daily News is not exactly infallible, and I’m sure they’re relying heavily on NYC sources (especially the police … Read more

My favorite Times columnist

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No, not Krugman. Kristof. He meanders for a few hundred words about the possible hereditary and environmental factors in homosexuality (including an aside about “lesbian seagulls”), and then he hits you with this: The bottom line is that same-sex love is a mystery far more subtle than just a matter of Biblical injunction — just … Read more

Blogroll stuff

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Well, I was on the cusp of updating le blogroll (one of us requested fafnir’s… whatever it is… and I’m about to put up IMAO* in sheer self-defense), when I actually looked at the blogroll. It’s pretty chaotic; does anybody actually care about how there’s no grouping by theme or anything? Remember, I can’t alphabetize, … Read more

The Coolhunter

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Let us now praise cool things. This, for example, is cool. Nahh, I didn’t find it. I’m the coolhunter, not the coolfinder or coolgatherer. (This is your cool things open thread.) von

Politics free zone

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1. Chad Pennington threatens to make a real football fan out of me. This is probably a bad idea in the long run, the Jets being the Jets. 2. I saw two movies over Thanksgiving. “Master and Commander” gets a big thumbs up, despite an expendable subplot or two; I’m now resolved to read those … Read more

DeLayseahorsing

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There’s a long, but very important article about House redistricting in this week’s New Yorker. Some quotations: “The framers of the Constitution created the House of Representatives to be the branch of government most responsive to changes in the public mood, but gerrymandered districts mean that most of the four hundred and thirty-five members of … Read more

How The Democrats Can Win in 2004

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Yes, it’s coming from the VRWC Death Beast. Yes, it’s unsolicited, unwelcome and probably tainted, tainted, tainted. You didn’t ask for my advice on how to run a campaign, you don’t need me to tell you how to run a campaign, a dead baboon could beat Bush next year anyway; I can’t be trusted to tell you the truth, like all Republicans I no doubt lie when it suits me and I should be worrying about my own party anyway.

If I’ve missed anything, let me know.

Got it out of your system yet?

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Novaked! (Again)

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Ya’ll remember Bob Novak, right? The conservative columnist who touched off a media feeding frenzy on his putative right-wing allies by naming Plame in a column? In the immortal words of Whitesnake: Here he goes again on his own (though without Tawny Kitain, it must be said) . . . . In his latest indictment … Read more