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weirdness revisits little egg harbor (home of the floating stinky blob)


- bill 11-06-2004 9:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

got spunk ?


- bill 11-06-2004 9:14 pm [link] [add a comment]

anonym


- bill 11-06-2004 5:53 pm [link] [add a comment]

this one takes the cake
- julie 11-05-2004 8:23 pm [link] [3 comments]

voter suppression rap sheet

via tom paine
- bill 11-05-2004 8:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

democrat heal thy self / w and the cuckoo clock


- bill 11-04-2004 4:07 pm [link] [add a comment]

splitz from wonkette


Birdies All Atwitter #


6:50 p.m.
6 p.m. exit polls -- not internals.


K/B:
FL 51 49


NC 48 52
OH 51 49
Missouri 46 54
Ark 47 53
Mich 51 47
NM 50 49
LA 43 56
CO 48 51
AZ 45 55
Minn 54 44
Wisc 52 47
IA 49 49
- bill 11-03-2004 3:13 am [link] [7 comments]

the splitz from wonkette


- bill 11-03-2004 3:12 am [link] [add a comment]

Had to wait in line from 8:55 to 9:40 to vote today. Poll workers said "big turn out".
- mark 11-02-2004 10:59 pm [link] [add a comment]

humpy


- bill 11-02-2004 9:48 pm [link] [1 comment]

Is this the surprise Karl's been hinting at? Major assault on Fallujah commenced on the eve of the election? The Guardian seems to think it's begun. Put American troops in harm's way, get everyone rah-rahing for the leadership in a time of crisis, etc.? The timing stinks.
- tom moody 10-31-2004 9:26 am [link] [1 comment]

Florida update: mrs. fingers and I will be travelling to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow with (at last count) 95 other confirmed volunteers to get out the vote in Broward County. Some reports project our group's final number at over 120 (various stragglers and plus-one's).

Related note: if Florida stays disputed... have a nice November in NYC, I'll see you at Xmas!

cheers!
- big jimmy 10-29-2004 9:40 pm [link] [4 comments]

one finger victory salute (to america.)


- bill 10-29-2004 8:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

mosh
- steve 10-29-2004 5:14 pm [link] [5 comments]

the path to florida


- bill 10-27-2004 11:25 pm [link] [add a comment]

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.



- bill 10-27-2004 9:54 pm [link] [1 comment]

family fortune


- bill 10-27-2004 2:34 am [link] [add a comment]

the new yorker chooses


- bill 10-26-2004 5:59 pm [link] [add a comment]

the comics reporter
- dave 10-26-2004 5:45 pm [link] [add a comment]

kidney stone photos!
- tom moody 10-25-2004 7:58 am [link] [4 comments]

"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."

-- scott mcconnell / american conservative magazine


- bill 10-24-2004 7:53 pm [link] [2 comments]

changes in military law


- bill 10-24-2004 4:58 pm [link] [add a comment]

Alex, maybe you are working for the wrong arm of the government...

Bird traffic controller

The Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem is no ordinary twitcher. An expert in bird migration patterns across the Middle East, he has turned his passion into a small industry responsible for saving the Israeli air force more than half a billion dollars in hardware - and, no doubt, the lives of several pilots. Fred Pearce hears how he has even turned migrating birds into unlikely emissaries for peace.

- jim 10-23-2004 8:46 pm [link] [3 comments]

Addendum to a post on my page (see indented text):
Atrios thinks William Gibson is a "techno-conservatarian," or their patron saint, and that it's somehow weirdly out of character that he'd contribute to Media Matters for America. Guess he hasn't read much Gibson--maybe he's confusing him with Jerry Pournelle?

UPDATE: Gibson replied:

The puzzling thing about this for me being: Do I have a hundred thousand politically conservative fans, and if so, *can't they read*? Most likely Atrios is referring to that sub-species of tragic mouthbreather so mesmerized by my effortless proliferation of imaginary Starck-slick gizmos that he never even notices the characterization, let alone the socio-political implications. I have always found those guys, like the ones who ask if I've read Ayn Rand, to be a distinct minority.

- tom moody 10-23-2004 1:08 am [link] [add a comment]

glass hoo ha


- bill 10-22-2004 7:40 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]