OK, I think I'm cooled off enough to write about the stupidity of SixApart's behavior without blowing a gasket. If you don't want to hear it, skip over this ( Read more... )

Well, in a rather loose sense ( Read more... )

Today was local election day in Illinois. I went to the polling place, which is down the road about two miles from our house, and thought "Oh, no" when I saw all the cars parked there. However, they must have all belonged to the poll workers and judges because I was the only voter there when I went in. Like in November, they had a touch screen ( Read more... )

The rebellion first: got a cryptic comment in e-mail from the director of a neighboring library just before quitting time, to the effect that "the doo doo has hit the fan" at the Big Messed-Up Consortium. By that I take it that she means the letters of intent to withdraw, signed by the boards of multiple institutions, reached the rockheaded ( Read more... )

So Bush is set to make a big speech midday today. How is he going to manage to claim a "mandate" for his extremist policies this time? Any guesses ( Read more... )

It's time to call in the UN to supervise US elections. Obviously the country that is trying to push democracy in the rest of the world is headed toward utter failure in the same department ( Read more... )

Or worse. I looked at the election stuff and the sample ballot and felt so disgusted that I don't even want to bother to vote. I will, though, if only to register my protest against both parties. The Green candidate for governor of Illinois gets my vote. I'm not sure how effective he'd be if he won, but he won't win. The major parties are only ( Read more... )

So after being caught in the act of utter hypocrisy, Mark Foley tries to blame it all on some priest who supposedly molested him as a child. Of course this turned him into some kind of predator himself. How stupid does he think we are that we would actually believe this tripe?

In what looks very much like a backlash against social progress, Canadians have apparently given their Conservative party a plurality in Parliament. This is nothing like the stranglehold the right wing presently has on US politics, but I think it's a bad sign. I hope the Liberals and the NDP will join forces and cooperate to keep the Tories in ( Read more... )

At last, an end to commercial horse slaughter in the United States may be on the visible horizon. In November, George W. Bush signed the 2006 Agriculture appropriations bill, which included an amendment forbidding use of any public funds to pay for USDA inspection of horse meat for human consumption. At first it was thought that this was a ( Read more... )