Archive for February, 2007
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So all those times I insisted that Gore was obviously running for president?
I might have been wrong there.
Well crap. This is upsetting. My first choice for the Democratic nomination is now apparently unequivocally not running. I guess that means I line up behind either Obama or Edwards, although I have my issues with both. Maybe […]
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Isn’t there a bigger issue here than Ford’s reputation? The fact that a presidential candidate would announce from a corporate headquarters, no matter which corporation it may be, strikes me as saying something really weird about our culture.
2000: Bush v. Gore2004: Bush v. Kerry2008: Pepsi v. Coke
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Well this is a pleasant surprise. Here I was all angry that the Democrats weren’t going to make an issue out of the Bush administration’s evisceration of habeas corpus and my very own Senator Chris Dodd decides to make an issue out of it only a month into the 111th Congress. At least we in […]
Dropkick Murphys at UCONN
Monday, February 12th, 2007Well, my ears aren’t ringing anymore. They were this morning, two days after the concert.
People keep asking me how the concert was, and the only description I can summon up is freakin’ ridiculous. I think I might still be a little disoriented.
Ali, John and I got there early and managed to get a spot up […]
My letter to Senator Obama
Monday, February 12th, 2007Now that Obama is officially running for president, I decided to write him a letter that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Here it is:
Senator Obama,
I have a tremendous respect for you and your work in the Senate. I admire your work on campaign finance reform, the Iraq War, health care and other issues, […]
UCONN!
Saturday, February 10th, 2007I’m blogging right now from Ali’s dorm in UCONN, where I’ll be until Sunday morning. Prufrock Elementary’s debut concert went pretty well - we made a lot of mistakes, but the audience was great, we had fun, and overall everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. The other two acts were also great. Anyway, hopefully next weekend […]
Friday, February 9th, 2007
It’s late and I just got back from layout but I need to point this out.
I’ve got kind of a habit of linking to The Low Post whenever there’s a new edition, and it’s these kind of passages that are exactly why:
Then there’s this whole business of liberals who are accused of “rooting” for failure […]
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
And we’re back.
The thing about having a readership of virtually 0 people is that it makes it very easy for one to kind of slack off on the blogging. And while blogging is, by necessity, certainly very low on my list of priorities, I’d like to stay in the habit of it.
A few things:- I […]
Quote of the Day
Friday, February 2nd, 2007National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley:
The best plan is to have this plan succeed. Because planning to have this plan fail would result in the failure of the plan. But in the guaranteed success of the other plan. But the core plan, the plan within the plan, would fail. I guess the point I’m making is […]
Is Senator Biden racist?
Thursday, February 1st, 2007I’ve never really made it a big secret that I’m no Biden fan. But is he a racist? It certainly appears that way.
You’ve probably already noticed this quote from Sen. Biden (D-DE) in which he manages to call either all previous African-American presidential candidates or possibly all other African-Americans in public life dumb, ugly and […]