During the times I wasn't at the wheel driving to South Carolina for Stan and Bikkle's wedding, I was following the election in Iran with rapt attention via my handy dandy phone communication device. I lost track of it until Sunday only to find... uncertain outcome? Allegations of election tampering? Protests in the streets ( Read more... )

Obama signed a memorandum Wednesday giving (some) benefits to the SOs of gay Federal workersIt looks like it's a chess move at this point. Very little was said about his promises to the gay community beyond some words at his inauguration speech. On June 1st, he signed an order making June GLBT Pride month (something which has sort of been done ( Read more... )

So now it's actually in the news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29638951/Read more... )

Russ Feingold has apparently introduced legislation amend the US Constitution to allow the direct election of Senators when a vacancy arises: http://www.russfeingold.org/get-involved/28.htmlRead more... )

At 11:56 est, George Bush will no longer hold the office of President of the United States of America ( Read more... )

"Yes", said Obama's pick for Attorney General when asked the first question of his confirmation hearing "do you believe that waterboarding is torture ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's the big day. Anyone feel like celebrating?

I have Mike and his Covance crew coming tomorrow to watch the results in sweet High-Definition. Anyone else who wishes to partake, come on down!

~Sean

(Unless you're planning on voting for their candidates)

Incendiary, but I've been hearing enough about this that I need to shed some light on what's been happening.

I) Keeping you from Voting

Some background:

( Help America Vote Act of 2002 )

Friend and Powet.TV associate Will Talley sent me a note of Facebook shedding light on this whole Bill Ayers thing that the McCain campaign has been harping on (or had been harping on, until they uncorked some bottled aggression among their supporters). I think this letter to the editor of the New York Times by the head prosecutor of the ( Read more... )

House Passes the Senate "Economic Rescue" PlanI still feel like this is an imperfect piece of legislation. It doesn't address the cause of the problem, but it does triage the wound. It's much better than the original proposal. It adds to the national debt ceiling, including tax breaks that we can't afford to enact. Hopefully these holes can be ( Read more... )