With regard to the latest manufactured completely stupid controversy over nothing in order to distract people from actual *issues*, which is nonetheless important because media behavior is an issue itself, and who gets elected president affects a horde of issues, I'm gonna start with links to what others have said ( Read more... )

Both the obsession with party rules and the willingness of the most rule-obsessed people to only care about *some* rules (and not care whether they have an accurate interpretation of those rules) is one of the things future historians (and psychologists) will most likely write about when discussing the 2008 Democratic party primary ( Read more... )

A while back, the famous Geek Love 08 (or someone claiming to be (?her, I assume?) asked me to post one of her youtube videos. I think this was about a month ago. I still haven't looked at the link, because we are out of the direct line for any wireless and cable doesn't reach out here and satellite isn't really worth it so . . . we are on dial- ( Read more... )

I was way too busy to post anything this week, and a vast horde of political events have passed me by, but first . . . congrats to Hillary on a truly gigantic, 41% win Tuesday, all the more impressive given the sort of coverage she'd been getting the past week ( Read more... )

First, several birthdays missed -- inamac, savepureness, and I believe but am not sure about a couple of others . . . Happy birthday to you all! And I'm sorry I didn't say it at the time ( Read more... )

"For everyone ... who’s ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you ( Read more... )

Okay, haven't been posting the last couple of weeks, as death + prolonged sickness + mourning does not necessarily = prolific journaling, but really feel like I've dropped the ball in not trying to post more and in more places on the campaign. One of the things that has me energized enough to write is enthusiasm over Hillary finally fighting back ( Read more... )