tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59147672011-04-21T14:12:45.658-05:00I Hate It HereMagical Truthsaying Bastard Spideysethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1082602666717152362004-04-21T21:57:00.000-05:002004-05-01T19:15:34.983-05:00OK, that's it.I am on indefinite hiatus until I get my thesis done. Need to finish college and go get a job and all that stuff.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1082252270078707082004-04-17T20:37:00.000-05:002004-04-17T20:41:50.983-05:00Regretting liberal hawkism?Interesting post on Atrios about Yglesias rescinding his war vote.
So reading it, I was asking myself: Do I regret being pro-war? Not really. I supported the war in Iraq and I was wrong. OK. I'm not mad at myself so much as I'm mad at Bush. Someone on the Atrios thread made the good point that the British haven't been screwing up their part of the occupation nearly as bad as we have. So part ofsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1082170018975247922004-04-16T21:46:00.000-05:002004-04-17T16:27:28.123-05:00Balls!The WaPo article on Woodward's book is a must-read in its entirety, but this paragraph in particular caught my eye:
Despite Powell's admonitions to the president, "Plan of Attack" suggests it was Blair who may have played a more critical role in persuading Bush to seek a resolution from the United Nations. At a meeting with the president at Camp David in early September, Blair backed Bush on Iraqsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1081638287035038412004-04-10T18:04:00.000-05:002004-04-14T14:19:42.640-05:00I am, frankly, terrified.If you have ten minutes to spare, I think that there isn't a much better way to spend it than by reading this post that Brad DeLong links:
We faced a force of four to five hundred rebels, with mortars, RPGs and various handheld weapons. There were four US soldiers---myself and the other people in my team----about twenty coalition soldiers, and thirty or so scared XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXX expats, sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1081403129461258522004-04-08T00:45:00.000-05:002004-04-08T00:49:16.780-05:00Relieving my depression over politics as best I canI have said this (many times) before, but everyone needs to listen to the Constantines. They are very good. Look, I'll even make it easy on you. Go here and download "Arizona"--the full version, no less!--and you will see what I mean. That is all. Good night.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1081221324907766592004-04-05T22:15:00.000-05:002004-04-06T22:52:26.030-05:00Oh, no.Man. Fallujah has been shut down. The situation in Iraq is starting to get actively scary to me.
FUCKING HELL: And now things are getting worse. My understanding is that CNN (and MSNBC) are actually only reporting Ramadi casualties, and that in fact 18 soldiers were killed around Iraq today. Fighting in 6 of the most major cities. I am fucking angry and frightened and goddamnit goddamnit sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1081131220155227832004-04-04T21:13:00.000-05:002004-04-04T21:19:18.153-05:00Holy damn.That was the biggest thunderclap ever.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1081131140761390262004-04-04T21:12:00.000-05:002004-04-04T21:16:04.170-05:00Once more into the breachSo once again, I am trying to learn DVORAK. Those of you who recall that I tried this once before, go ahead and laugh. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, the quick explanation is that it's a more efficient keyboard layout. You see, QWERTY keys are designed to slow down your typing speed, because they were originally implemented on typewriters, where it was advantageous to sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080984245254178272004-04-03T03:24:00.000-06:002004-04-03T03:27:46.170-06:00Aw, crap.So tonight I got James Spader instead of Clay Aiken--which is suppose is a marginal improvement.
Then some jackass frat boys decided to crash the party and empty a fire extinguisher in the hall. Fire extinguisher powder has a sour taste, smells bad, irritates your eyes, mouth, etc., and given my luck, is probably toxic.
But I saw Hellboy. And it was damn good. So the night was, no doubt, a sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080894833077402422004-04-02T02:33:00.000-06:002004-04-02T04:01:11.606-06:00God damn it.So I was out at Whisky Bar tonight and had two girls--two girls, totally independently--tell me that I looked like Clay Aiken. I hate that bastard from the bottom of my fucking soul.
That is all that I had to say. I'm trying to avoid the drunk post tonight.
...
No, that's a lie. I also wanted to say that I still have every intention of moving to Greece if Bush wins. I know how that sounds, butsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080184033668299692004-03-24T21:07:00.000-06:002004-03-25T01:04:51.950-06:00DamnI just spent two hours watching Clarke's testimony at C-SPAN. Wow. Amazing. Set aside the time to go and check it out.
Two key moments: when he says that Iraq undermined the War on Terror and there's 6 or 7 seconds dead silence in the room; when he defends his credibility to Lehman. The latter is at 2:03:30 in the feed if you're interested in skipping to it.
FOUND IT: The parts where Clarke sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080145264225442082004-03-24T10:21:00.000-06:002004-03-24T10:24:31.843-06:00CNN makes a Freudian slipI'm confused about this: [Tenet] said that in 1999 -- after bin Laden issued a 1998 fatwa calling on Muslims to kill Americans -- the CIA began developing a new plan to develop human and technical resources to use against bin Laden.
He said that the plan was showing results by 2001 and that the CIA network was able to provide a great deal of intelligence to U.S. forces invading Iraq.
Did I miss sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080103711199094362004-03-23T22:48:00.000-06:002004-03-23T22:51:57.780-06:00See? See? Destruction of the institution of marriage.I just don't know what to think about this. Perhaps someone can give me guidance. My state is weird.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1080066713591726572004-03-23T12:31:00.000-06:002004-03-23T12:35:19.826-06:00The things that we know are unknownRumsfeld obviously missed the memo on the Administration's Clarke talking points:
Rumsfeld likely will address Clarke's assertions head-on.
A Pentagon spokesman said the defense chief will tell the 9/11 commission that he makes no apologies for considering Iraq's potential involvement during the days immediately following the attacks because the Bush administration was looking at a global war onsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1079207863883911082004-03-13T13:57:00.000-06:002004-03-13T14:00:56.140-06:00Kriston's afternoon is overOK, raise your hands if you remember Mike Woodson's Irritability from way back in the Golden Years of the Daily Texan's comic page. That's what I thought. Well, now you can refresh your memory. In case you weren't aware, there's an online Irritability archive. Now go waste a few hours reading the only RPG- and NES-influenced comic strip featuring crazed anime characters. And Sheriff Amoeba. And sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078894075832888122004-03-09T22:47:00.000-06:002004-03-10T11:57:50.403-06:00I'm sorry Helen, I'm afraid I can't do thatFollowing up on a Kriston post, the last press gaggle over the 9/11 commission, my version:
Q: Why is the President only going to answer 9/11 commission questions for 1 hour?
Scott: We've had unprecedented cooperation! I wish you would report that.
Q: Right, that's what happened before. Why aren't you cooperating now?
Scott: The President will answer whatever questions he's asked!
Q: But forsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078782703513300232004-03-08T15:51:00.000-06:002004-03-09T21:55:49.326-06:00Pandering to monopolyI need a copy of Microsoft Office X for my Powerbook. If any of you still-students are going to be on the UT campus over the next few days, would you be willing to pick me up a copy from the computer store? I think it's 7 or 8 bucks and I'd certainly compensate you for the time as well. Someone drop me a line if you're interested.
YAY: Clare offered to do it for me. Thank you Clare! (Round of sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078681040286074492004-03-07T11:37:00.000-06:002004-03-10T14:59:43.530-06:00AestheticsWhile drunk a few nights ago I made this new template for the blog. It still needs much polishing, but I would like to get some opinions before I decide to actually do anything with it. Comments?
UPDATE: Okay, I made some slight modifications. Thoughts?sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078469389261579852004-03-05T00:49:00.000-06:002004-03-05T00:52:49.903-06:00What, were we taking weekends off before?CNN Headline: U.S. to launch 24/7 hunt for bin Laden.
Election time!sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078426404692594232004-03-04T12:53:00.000-06:002004-03-04T12:56:25.373-06:00This is politics at its finest!Bush's campaign theme is 'steady leadership'. Or rather (quote from one of his first ads), "Steady leadership in times of change."
Is anyone else besides me reminded of the campaign slogan from the beginning of Wag the Dog? "Never change horses in midstream"? That was a good movie.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078328472533188412004-03-03T09:41:00.000-06:002004-03-03T09:44:11.013-06:00My boy is out.So Edwards is going to drop out. Somehow, I'm not as freaked out about the prospect of Kerry going up against Bush as I was a few weeks ago. Time to take down that annoying little bastard in the White House.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078171565459969842004-03-01T14:06:00.000-06:002004-03-01T14:09:01.966-06:00More from the road.We are just outside of Wichita. I've been asleep for about a hundred miles.
Man, I thought that West Kansas/East Colorado was the worst place on the planet. And that was before we drove through it today. Fifty miles outside of Denver we hit a massive blizzard--we could see about 20 feet in front of us and have to follow in the tire tracks of two semis just to get by. It was pretty frightening. sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1078044919604285792004-02-29T02:55:00.000-06:002004-02-29T02:58:13.390-06:00It's snowing.Just drove back from a bar up north. The roads are covered with snow; I was spinning out all over the place. Fortunate that I didn't really drink--not having any idea that it was snowing out at the time; it came out of nowhere--because it's downright horrible outside right now. I hope we can get out tomorrow.
But, what the hell. If we get stuck, we get stuck. More fun tomorrow night.
Just took sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-107800505468103262004-02-28T15:50:00.000-06:002004-04-21T18:31:56.966-05:00On the road again.It's 7AM on the last day of February, and I'm in my car just outside of Wichita, heading for Denver. Murphy is driving. Earlier tonight Aaron drove for a few hours. These are the first two times anyone has driven my car other than me. It's a little unnerving for me to ride in the back seat of my own car. In fact, I was so determined to stay behind the wheel of my car that I drove for most of the sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077852602402503382004-02-26T21:30:00.000-06:002004-02-26T21:36:02.576-06:00Watching the debate.Came in about 15 minutes late. They just finished the Iraq question. Far as I'm concerned, Kerry is just going to town. I mean, much as I like Edwards--everyone knows I'm an Edwards fan--Kerry is just awesome. He hit the Iraq question out of the park while Edwards just sort of bobbled it.
Hey Gray Davis is in the audience. Ha!
...: Next commercial break. Edwards definitely picked it up a littlesethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077828979906545942004-02-26T14:56:00.000-06:002004-02-26T22:07:39.840-06:00More of the sameLegal Fiction has an entertaining post on states' rights:
No doubt some conservatives are in favor of letting states have legal marijuana, but this decision is based on their libertarian preferences (or their fondness for da herb) rather than on "states' rights."
Actually, the thesis of the post is that "states' rights" is really just a cover argument for people to use whenever it's convenient. sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077518662316584372004-02-23T00:44:00.000-06:002004-02-23T03:06:48.530-06:00Damn fucking straightJohnny Depp won best actor from the SAG for his performance in Pirates of the Caribbean.
It's little stuff like that that just brings a ray of sunshine to my dorky day.
WHY JOHNNY DEPP IS COOL (as if you should need a reason): If you didn't already know, the inspiration for Jack Sparrow was none other than...
I thought of Keith because I was trying to figure out what pirates might have been sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077289500979456632004-02-20T09:05:00.000-06:002004-02-20T09:07:43.466-06:00That's a knee-slapperEdwards said in NYC yesterday: "It's an honor to be here in New York. My staff tells me that the whole town is excited about the fresh new face who just arrived from the South to compete in the Big Apple. I told them I was flattered. They told me they meant A-Rod."
Okay, lame joke. But I like John Edwards. And while we're on the subject, that A-Rod deal is crap. I mean, I don't even care about sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077234124098897852004-02-19T17:42:00.000-06:002004-02-19T23:58:54.653-06:00More specificallyBirthday suggestions? (ex-)Austinites, tell me what I should do:
1. Dinner, Movie, go home and go to sleep. (Favorite movies? Restaurants?)
2. Go downtown. (If so, favorite bars?)
3. Stay in at the house.
4. Go to bed.
I can't force myself to get very excited about birthdays. Usually I just want to pretend they're not happening.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1077074976582234722004-02-17T21:29:00.000-06:002004-02-18T10:32:49.983-06:00Today was a good dayI was reluctant to write about politics again after my freakout about creativity, but today was a really good day for the Democratic party. So I'll try to keep it brief. Today two things happened that I care about: we picked up a House seat in Kentucky, and Edwards finished way, way better than expected in Wisconsin and now has two weeks of open media time to catch up with Kerry.
If you've got sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076999167346992662004-02-17T00:26:00.000-06:002004-02-17T02:17:19.233-06:00This is a double-blind experiment; may be the real thing.My head hurts. I've been staring at a UNIX terminal all day and missing out on this beautiful weather. Sometimes I wonder if being such a computer slave my entire life has affected me in some deep and fundamental way--like, really and seriously screwed up my thought processes. For example, being cold and analytical about some things that I really shouldn't be--which sounds like a sort of too-easysethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076809886450935732004-02-14T19:51:00.000-06:002004-02-15T13:14:56.403-06:00By way of explanationSomeone looked at this page earlier today and asked, "You hate it here?" Ah, I thought. Somewhat confusing. I'm not sure that anyone understood the name of this page--except for Kevin, and perhaps Brendan and Kriston--and you all probably think that I'm some sort of sociopath. Rightfully so, but I prefer to think of myself more as a miscreant... I have a thing for a comic book called sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076742156577891162004-02-14T01:02:00.000-06:002004-02-14T10:15:14.403-06:00God damn it's coldIt's snowing. In Austin. Apparently Hell has frozen over and the bad weather is even affecting us here.
Happy goddamn middle of February. What the hell? I was running around in a t-shirt in the beginning of January, and now this? Clearly the universe is confused. Agreed?
MY GOD: There's about a half an inch out there right now and no sign of slowing down at all. Seriously. This is starting to sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076661866028717882004-02-13T02:44:00.000-06:002004-02-13T15:43:11.450-06:00Hacker ethics.My neighbors appear to have turned off their WiFi router. Bastards. Information wants to be free, goddamnit. And I want to be able to play on the internet without getting out of bed. Curses.
Question of the day: is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all?
*Drunk post number two. This will no doubt be regretted in the morning.
AND: Or, afternoon. But, yes.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076476607529151532004-02-10T23:16:00.000-06:002004-02-11T14:19:53.356-06:00Clark is out.Check it out. Seriously, who would have predicted a month ago that the only two in at this point would be Edwards and Kerry? At least it's still interesting. Go Edwards!
Too bad Clark didn't drop out sooner.
AND: Discussed this over at Kriston's house as well.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076384943117321842004-02-09T21:46:00.000-06:002004-02-11T14:25:11.233-06:00What an awesome keyboardBy way of recovery: 1. Did horrible, horrible things to Matt's pillow as per Kevin's suggestion. 2. Went out to eat as per Matt's suggestion. Starseeds, wonderfully enough, where I haven't been in a long time. Kriston will be pleased to hear that, as per the usual, I got the big-ass breakfast taco. Man, their food is gross. 3. Bought a new Powerbook. (Which is about all I'm allowed to buy for thesethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1076223810561074222004-02-08T01:03:00.000-06:002004-02-08T01:05:56.030-06:00Man oh manWhat a miserable evening. Knife twisting in the wound.
What do y'all do when you really, really need to cheer yourself up? Besides posting lonesomely on the Internet, that is...sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075888676568680432004-02-04T03:57:00.000-06:002004-02-05T00:46:23.043-06:00Don't normally do this, but...Legal Fiction is the best blog I've seen in a long time. And it's only been around for a month. Seriously excellent. Breeze through the archives and you'll feel like you know ten times what you previously did about American politics.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075800433553448812004-02-03T03:27:00.000-06:002004-02-03T09:45:26.530-06:00Things will get better. Things will improve.If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that you should never, ever, ever post to a blog after you've been drinking. Besides being eminently dorky, it's just a general recipe for trouble.
That said, I'd just like to say that my creative faculties have this tendency to utterly fail me after a drink or two. I'm not sure if that's because I'm just getting older and my creative faculties have sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075573037114729842004-01-31T12:17:00.000-06:002004-01-31T12:20:30.496-06:00Blind luck, deliver meI'm just kind of generally pissed off at the buck-passing over WMDs, but, as per the usual, Josh Marshall nailed it. I mean, really nailed it:
We know that after 9/11 there were intense battles pitting the Intelligence Community against political appointees in the administration and that those battles were over almost every aspect of the Iraqi threat: nuclear weapons capacity, ties to terrorism,sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075510246760552642004-01-30T18:50:00.000-06:002004-01-30T21:56:53.623-06:00Clinton was asleep at the wheel.The Clinton Administration let the 9/11 attacks happen. Despite overwhelming evidence that Al Qaeda was intent on executing a devastating attack on American soil, they did nothing. I mean, for God's sake, they only asked for bin Laden's turnover two dozen times. What kind of commitment is that?
Our current Commander-in-Chief, by contrast, was never duped. However, he's as baffled as you are as sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075468562029041262004-01-30T07:16:00.000-06:002004-01-30T07:18:15.390-06:00Welcome to the 20th centuryColor scheme yes? Color scheme no?sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075338555294043052004-01-28T19:09:00.000-06:002004-01-28T19:11:26.623-06:00Rube Goldbergy goodnessSo I'm sure that most of you have seen the Honda ad that Poppy just pointed me to. If not, take a few seconds to check it out. I didn't believe that it was real at first, but apparently you can film just about damn near anything if you're willing to go through over 600 takes to get it. Definitely the coolest thing I've seen this week.
For more, here's the google, with the link to Honda's site.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1075254806353988592004-01-27T19:53:00.000-06:002004-01-28T02:19:53.200-06:00Voters are stupid.So the CNN exit polls indicate that people whose main concern is electability pretty much overwhelmingly fall to John Kerry. Why in the name of all that's holy is that happening? He's done nothing for the last two decades but be a boring New England Senator. He stumps with Kennedy, for Chrissakes. Is it because he's a veteran? If that's the case, why not vote for Clark?
Could someone please makesethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1074743342877861892004-01-21T21:49:00.000-06:002004-01-21T21:51:04.343-06:00Iowa caucuses be damned.I saw the Hellboy trailer while I was watching Once Upon a Time in Mexico last night and it was the coolest damn thing ever. That is all.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1074281770521223232004-01-16T13:36:00.000-06:002004-01-16T13:38:30.530-06:00Religious funAnd lo, I bring you the Bible in IRC logs and the Bible in LEGO. And it was good. And funny.
Is this heresy?sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1074276336211409782004-01-16T12:05:00.000-06:002004-01-16T12:07:30.716-06:00LeBron is a punk-ass chumpIs anyone else besides me freaked out about this? Michelle Wie was 2-over-72 and tied for 105th after the first round of the Sony Open. Keep in mind that this is an actual PGA event--Wie is the third woman on the PGA tour this year.
So who cares? Well, she's fourteen years old, making her she's the youngest player ever on the Tour. I mean, I don't give a crap about golf, and that's still pretty sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1073683049722028652004-01-09T15:17:00.000-06:002004-01-09T15:18:59.880-06:00That's threeHarkin will endorse Dean. Wes is picking up momentum, but I'm not sure if he can catch up to this. Everyone else seriously needs to drop the fuck out, now.
And really, who the hell cares about something Dean said about the Iowa caucuses three years ago? (Especially when it's true?)sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1073592641993104032004-01-08T14:10:00.000-06:002004-01-08T17:23:35.216-06:00Spend! Spend! Spend!So the NYT says that the U.S. debt is a threat, not just to the U.S., but to the global economy. This is from an IMF report just released.
The dangers, according to the report, are that the United States' voracious appetite for borrowing could push up global interest rates and thus slow down global investment and economic growth.
"Higher borrowing costs abroad would mean that the adverse sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1073547850518281862004-01-08T01:44:00.000-06:002004-01-08T01:44:30.000-06:00It's on.My konspire2b network is set up. Instructions to follow.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1073351456689778572004-01-05T19:10:00.000-06:002004-01-05T19:11:16.030-06:00It's like drugsWhy can't I stop thinking about politics? November needs to be here now now now so I can either get back to normal life or move to Greece. (Any of you are welcome to come with me.)
But still, I spend my days (maybe it's just the monotony of being at home) finding and laughing at stuff like this. This is from the last Democratic debate and proves why Edwards is the coolest candidate out there:
sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1073025946294246922004-01-02T00:45:00.000-06:002004-01-02T00:46:04.103-06:00This is all that I have to say"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."Staying in Ashland for a few more days. Austin can wait--it's not like I have a job to go back to.
That's it. Happy New Year.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1072951913522207802004-01-01T04:11:00.000-06:002004-01-01T04:12:11.613-06:00OK--no more politics.New Year's resolutions:
1. Build something of lasting value (those of you who've talked with me in the last 3 weeks know what I'm talking about).
2. Beat Bush. (I lied about the politics thing.)
3. (It's a secret).
I'm not much for traditions, but I do think that the new year's resolution is an important one. Anyone got any they'd like to share?
Oh, and I need a haircut, too. And an iPod.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1072811969331225172003-12-30T13:19:00.000-06:002003-12-30T13:19:46.856-06:00WhoaCNN is reporting at this moment that Ashcroft just removed himself from the Plame investigation and will appoint a special prosecutor. Damn.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1072289808624195612003-12-24T12:16:00.000-06:002003-12-24T12:21:17.493-06:00ReverieGoing home for Christmas and the New Year. Some wisdom from my namesake:
You're probably wondering what the point of all this ugly rambling bullshit is. It's this: The future is inherently a good thing. And we move into it one winter at a time. Things get better one winter at a time. So if you're going to celebrate something, then have a drink on this: The world is, generally and on balance, a sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1071806334021901622003-12-18T21:58:00.000-06:002003-12-18T21:59:08.793-06:00Best Christmas present ever.So I really want to buy an Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure but I'm afraid that the money would just get funneled directly to GW's reelection chest. [Insert inflatable-doll joke here.]sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1071402778305288332003-12-14T05:52:00.000-06:002003-12-14T05:53:11.113-06:00Whoa.They caught him.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1071331323241484192003-12-13T10:02:00.000-06:002003-12-13T10:02:16.530-06:00Comeuppance.I'd just like to say, to no one in particular, that Antoine Walker kicks ass. Oh, and the Lakers suck. (Sorry, Dane, had to say it.)sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1071330424200779622003-12-13T09:47:00.000-06:002003-12-13T21:06:10.270-06:00Best of 2000-whateverSo Pitchfork is finally abandoning all pretenses and giving in to their inner whorishness to release their "Best of 2003" list as a goddamn book. That you have to pay for. That you can pre-order on their website. It's called, of course, Thesaurus Musicarum, ("Thesaurus of Music"?), which is appropriate, because a thesaurus is what complete idiots use when they want to sound passingly intelligent sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1071203069937646132003-12-11T22:24:00.000-06:002003-12-11T22:24:42.610-06:00Separating the pack.Kos says that Dean has a 42-23 lead over Gephardt in the latest poll out of Iowa (post-Gore). Ouch. I never thought that Gephardt would have a strong enough lead in Iowa to make him the anti-Dean, but if Dean has that much momentum he will be hard to stop come the S.C. primary. Throws a monkeywrench in my theory about Clark or Edwards emerging as the anti-Dean with an S.C. win. Someone on the Kossethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070952145106826022003-12-09T00:42:00.000-06:002003-12-09T00:42:36.850-06:00In other news...Representative Janklow was convicted of manslaughter today. He will be resigning his seat. Seems like the right thing to do.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070944345524034792003-12-08T22:32:00.000-06:002003-12-09T02:05:34.646-06:00It's all over.Apparently Gore is going to endorse Dean. That's just unbelievably huge. I might think of something to say about this sometime. Damn.
OU sucks.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070612698954929202003-12-05T02:24:00.000-06:002003-12-05T02:25:09.773-06:00Oh, that's rich.All right. Go to google, type in "miserable failure," and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Awesome.
And no, it doesn't send you to Dick Gephardt's campaign site. Good guess, though. Seriously, go try it.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070508747001359862003-12-03T21:32:00.000-06:002003-12-03T21:32:37.420-06:00Mommy, how does redistricting work?Comment from the thread: "it's Tom Delay in a box." I suppose it serves a purpose, but it's still pretty creepily sinister.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070414036693252822003-12-02T19:13:00.000-06:002003-12-02T19:14:07.083-06:00They made a movie about this kid.Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes flat. If you've ever, I mean ever, played any sort of console game, you owe it to yourself to go and watch this. You'll be only marginally impressed until he gets to the first tank level in World 8. Then shit starts to go down.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1070335616659610012003-12-01T21:26:00.000-06:002003-12-01T21:27:06.620-06:00Ahem. PSA.Until December 14th I get forty percent off books and thirty percent off music at barnes and noble. And thirty percent off everything at software, etc. and gamestop, for you video game freaks out there.
Just sayin'. Wink wink double plus wink.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1069871326703310612003-11-26T12:28:00.000-06:002003-11-26T12:29:51.810-06:00Thundercats ho!I was going to complain about this stupid article on CNN, where some worker in LA filed a complaint because some electrical components were labeled "master" and "slave," but it was a little too easy, so I went looking for the funny instead: Pundits and columnists have questioned my judgment, just because I used to run around without clothes on, saving people. I've moved past that. In your youngersethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1069542710297019102003-11-22T17:11:00.000-06:002003-11-22T17:21:45.230-06:00Berkeley Breathed is my heroI didn't know that he was a UT student: I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. They failed to see the marketing advantage in manipulating news photos (this is pre-digital, remember) to enhance the drama. I recall a dandy front-page photo of a community street preacher, in which I burned a halo floating above his head. I got fired and started writing stories for sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1069266021471565772003-11-19T12:20:00.000-06:002003-11-19T12:31:09.033-06:00Nobody saw this comingWarrant issued for Michael Jackson's arrest on child molestation charges.
Interestingly, he's complaining that "These characters always seem to surface with a dreadful allegation just as another project, an album, a video, is being released." I'm not sure if by "characters" he means "kids," but I'm having trouble envisioning why anyone could have a motive for sabotaging Michael Jackson's latest sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068971103412260792003-11-16T02:25:00.000-06:002003-11-16T02:25:09.270-06:00This is like an early birthday present.I no longer have to be consoled with "well, we picked up some seats in the lower auxiliary sub-House in Virgina." Kathleen Blanco has been elected governor of Louisiana.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-106894822597204522003-11-15T20:05:00.000-06:002003-11-18T01:00:10.626-06:00No, not convenient at allCNN reports that:
Iraq will have a new transitional government with full sovereign powers by the end of June 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council said Saturday, and will have a constitution and a permanent, democratically elected government by the end of 2005...
The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority will dissolve at that time, council authorities said in Saturday's news conference, and "thesethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068763366937346872003-11-13T16:42:00.000-06:002003-11-13T17:21:28.200-06:00Clark vs. Edwards?Here's my theory as to why Edwards pulled the Hugh Shelton stunt that Kriston mentions here, although I think it may sound a bit obvious. It's both more simple and more complex than Kriston's giving it credit for.
That said, I don't think it's about Edwards "having a race" with Clark, nor is that race about the South and the West. It's about South Carolina. Think about it. By February 3rd, Dean sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068704918275940952003-11-13T00:28:00.000-06:002003-11-13T00:30:57.613-06:00Parse this one, you bastards.A little bit of light-hearted fun for the latter half of your week... You think George Bush Jr. is incoherent?:
The guy over there at Pease--a woman actually--she said something about a country-western song about the train, a light at the end of the tunnel... I only hope it's not a train coming the other way. Well, I said to her, well, I'm a country music fan. I love it, always have. Doesn't fit sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068619345927222982003-11-12T00:42:00.000-06:002003-11-12T00:43:43.336-06:00Don't say 'Quagmire'!CNN says:
A recent CIA assessment of Iraq warns the security situation will worsen across the country, not just in Baghdad but in the north and south as well, a senior administration source told CNN Tuesday.
The report is a much more dire and ominous assessment of the situation than has previously been forwarded through official channels, this source said. It was sent to Washington Monday by sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068366326419148202003-11-09T02:25:00.000-06:002003-11-09T18:44:59.510-06:00Come down to Faust's for great bargainsI'm going to take a quick moment to respond to something Kriston wrote on his blog about this post here. This needs clarification:
I just want to respond to this charge about honor: Generally, and I probably can't put this sensitively enough, in the wake of September 11th many people would willingly entertain seemingly un-American notions to ensure that another September 11th never came about. sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068356257607378792003-11-08T23:37:00.000-06:002003-11-08T23:37:41.533-06:00It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.We've all had a good laugh at Dubya's verbal gaffes. But I have to give credit to his handlers--he is improving. To put it all in perspective, I suggest taking a few moments to peruse the wisdom of Dan Quayle. Now there's an articulate politician.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068350311822076052003-11-08T21:58:00.000-06:002003-11-08T21:58:35.453-06:00What the hell is going on?Miami, Va Tech, Iowa, and probably Florida State. Seriously, did Hell just freeze over?sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068147912662619922003-11-06T13:45:00.000-06:002003-11-06T13:45:16.043-06:00Woohoo!Joan Kroc, late widow of Ray Kroc (the McDonald's founder), donated $200 million to NPR in her will. That's the best goddamn news I've heard in a long time.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068102100868206482003-11-06T01:01:00.000-06:002003-11-06T01:03:22.346-06:00Chilling.You may or may not have heard about him, but here's part of Maher Arar's statement on what happened after he was detained by the INS and deported to Syria:
I am not a terrorist. I am not a member of al-Qaida and I do not know any one who belongs to this group. All I know about al-Qaida is what I have seen in the media.
I have never been to Afghanistan. I have never been anywhere near sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1068054089374683082003-11-05T11:41:00.000-06:002003-11-05T11:41:32.510-06:00A Quick Note on DeanHe's still only my third choice, but I have to say this. The flap about the Confederate flag comment is asinine. He was making a factually accurate statement--that those people used to be reliable Democratic voters, and we lost them. They don't agree with the Administration's policies (many Republicans don't, at least), yet they still vote Repub--that's a disjunct that needs to be addressed.
Yessethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067974600901599192003-11-04T13:36:00.000-06:002003-11-04T13:37:51.963-06:00More Kerry-supporting.Well, his wife, anyway. She said that the debates are "silly" and that "I think those debates are really unproductive and they made it hard for all of them to (get their message across)." Hear hear, Teresa.
Better yet, she suggests limiting the size of the debates or having smaller debates that focus on the leaders in particular states. She concedes that this might be unfair to some of the sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067879952486431662003-11-03T11:19:00.000-06:002003-11-03T11:19:15.240-06:00More Kerry-bashingFrom Fark: "Dean wants votes from 'guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks'. Gephardt counters: 'I want to be the candidate of guys with the American flag on their pickup trucks.' Kerry's response: 'What's a pickup truck?'"
Like fish in a barrel. Oh, and apparently good old lefty Zell Miller said that Dean "knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday." I'm have sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067833508318495912003-11-02T22:25:00.000-06:002003-11-02T22:25:10.833-06:00Zbigniew Brzezinski is very hard to spellHere's a quote from Brzezinski at the New American Strategies session, courtesy of Josh Marshall:
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. That failure was contributed to and was compensated for by extremist demagogy which emphasizes the sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067808434356792962003-11-02T15:27:00.000-06:002003-11-02T16:00:19.630-06:00Hands off the NFLAh. Link courtesy of my always-reliable dad, Hunter Thompson levies a critique of Bush aimed at average Americans:
Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-Failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they willsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067653017815681052003-10-31T20:16:00.000-06:002003-10-31T20:16:59.893-06:00Words fail me.Here we have the Megaman spoof of Bohemian Rhapsody. I feel pretty lame for posting this--almost as lame as I feel for laughing my ass off while watching it. But if you're an old-school 8-bit fiend, you owe it to your lame ass to watch this.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067619839126645962003-10-31T11:03:00.000-06:002003-10-31T11:04:01.303-06:00Pardon me--do you have any Grey Poupon?CNN:: "Iowa -- Kerry makes remarks on agricultural conservation at 12:30 p.m. in Colo before going on a pheasant hunting trip in the afternoon."
I'm not old-Washington elite. No, not at all. Just 'cause I was a member of the Skulls & Bones doesn't mean I don't understand the little guy.
I mean, you all go pheasant hunting in the afternoons, right?sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067527641399662712003-10-30T09:27:00.000-06:002003-10-30T09:27:38.403-06:00More on this laterThe U.S. economy grew at 7.2% this quarter. Highest rate of growth in two decades.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067393862335984672003-10-28T20:17:00.000-06:002003-10-28T20:17:43.633-06:00Poor Clark.CW on Kos seems to be: stick a fork in Clark, he's done. Have to agree that things aren't looking good for the General.
Silver lining: looks like my man Edwards might have his time in the sun. I had all but given up on the guy, and now it looks like he's making a resurgence. Awesome.
(To avoid looking too flavor-of-the-week: Edwards was the first candidate that I really took a liking to. sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067392689259726392003-10-28T19:58:00.000-06:002003-10-28T19:58:51.070-06:00CNN is so cool.CNN has an article linked from their front page with the headline "Rapper's 'bling bling' stolen from Vegas."
Aww. Nelly got his bling bling jacked.
You can't tell, but I'm actually laughing out loud while I'm typing this.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067316909332192782003-10-27T22:55:00.000-06:002003-10-27T22:55:10.663-06:00Grrr.Replying to requests for 9/11 documents, Bush says that they're "very sensitive."
What. The. Fuck.
No one's asking you to put them up on your weblog, chimpo. These are U.S. Senators asking for this shit, and despite what you might think, they're perfectly qualified to see it. Furthermore, it's an intelligence commission, which means they're even more qualified to see it than usual. Finally, yousethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067290854460822882003-10-27T15:40:00.000-06:002003-10-27T15:40:55.123-06:00Enough Bloggin'.I just wanted to point out that it's abso-fucking-lutely beautiful out today. 70 degrees, balmy--perfect Austin weather. Days like this are the reason I live here.
Which basically means that I'm going to keep the doors and windows open while I surf on the Internet. Ahem.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067144675775489122003-10-26T00:04:00.000-05:002003-10-26T12:17:15.183-06:00Poor Wolfowitz.I never thought I'd write that, but his hotel just got shelled, and earlier a Black Hawk was downed and attacked just outside of Tikrit--just a little while after he had left the area via helicopter. Creepy--sounds like someone's gunning for the poor dude. Come home, Wolfy!
UPDATE: John Marshall thought the same thing.
UPDATE: And so did Kos.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067112005586059882003-10-25T15:00:00.000-05:002003-10-26T01:42:30.606-05:00Hee, hee, hee...Matthew Yglesias says:
"Dean's reputation as a 'straight shooter' is, near as I can tell, almost totally unjustified unless straight shooter means 'has a loud voice.' The flipside of this is that his reputation as an objectionable left-winger is likewise unjustified. My advice -- vote for Wesley Clark -- though a Bush/Dean matchup would likely be the most fun to watch since you'll have the two sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1067050770092240962003-10-24T21:59:00.000-05:002003-10-24T22:04:18.490-05:00I, um, er, what? ...Via Atrios comes this little tidbit:
LOFTUS: Well, you know, it's a funny story. About a year-and-a-half ago, people in the intelligence community came and said-guys like Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and other terrorists weren't being touched because they'd been ordered not to investigate the cases, not to prosecute them, because there were being funded by the Saudis and a political decision was sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066760231123144332003-10-21T13:17:00.000-05:002003-10-21T13:17:11.103-05:00Sweet Home AlabamaAre you a proponent of tax cuts? Awesome! Then you should take this opportunity to check out how wonderfully your theories are working out in Alabama:
Governor Riley's setback last month is being hailed by national antitax forces as a great victory. But if Alabama heads into next year without additional revenues, students may have to learn without textbooks, prisoners may be released early, and sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066586257420477282003-10-19T12:57:00.000-05:002003-10-19T12:57:36.726-05:00Want to see something disturbing?Then I bring you: Depictions of Operation Iraqi Freedom... by Iraqi schoolchildren. Weird. Creepy. Fascinating. The range of viewpoints represented is pretty striking.sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066536359970449202003-10-18T23:05:00.000-05:002003-10-18T23:06:33.670-05:00Some pro-Clark goodnessThis comment from Kos is great:
This is bullshit. Criticise his actions by all means, but not his Democrat-ness. Look, the guy is clearly a natural born Independent. He'd do blockbuster numbers running as a third-party candidate. And we'd all be screwed.
And he has the decency to do the right thing, run as a Dem., and people are giving him shit for it. Would that Nader had had as much sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066530460548080772003-10-18T21:27:00.000-05:002003-10-18T21:27:40.493-05:00Blackouts! CoolI know that no one cares about the blackout that happened in the Northeast however long ago. It's over and done with, right? Yeah, I thought so, too, and this I read this metafilter post by a guy who works at a nuclear power plant explaining how the whole thing went down. It opens like this:
First, initial conditions: very hot, mid August. Peak time of afternoon. Davis-Besse nuclear plant on sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066446379274352482003-10-17T22:06:00.000-05:002003-10-17T22:06:19.413-05:00Black Hawk DownSo thie General Boykin guy you may have been hearing about? The one who apparently made all the "my God is better than your God"-type comments to and about Muslims? He gave an apology today which, frankly, strikes me as pretty disingenuous. If what Kos said about him is true, he should probably be kicked out of the military anyway.
Here's the interesting thing. While reading the article about sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914767.post-1066445236754932042003-10-17T21:47:00.000-05:002003-10-17T21:47:16.333-05:00The Weakest DemocratA little bit of pro-Dean fun from the Kos message boards:
THE WEAKEST DEMOCRAT
Ann: "Donations are capped at $2,000. Only donations banked and that you do not spend will be carried forward to the next quarter. It's time to play The Weakest Democrat. Howard."
Dean: "Bank." (Dean banks another $5 million)
Ann: "How would you improve healthcare?"
Dean: "I'd roll back the Bush tax cuts and sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394285274169343948noreply@blogger.com