Looks like stupid Ed Lee won the stupid mayor's race. They're not officially calling it yet -- some absentee and provisional ballots left to count -- but he declared victory this afternoon. Dear San Francisco politicians: can we maybe get it together and run a smaller field next time? You do not all need to be mayor ( Read more... )

It's probably cheating for so many of my posts this month to be about my Mega Flare progress, but it is the main focus of my time and attention right now, so maybe not? I can't decide ( Read more... )

Eleven candidates for mayor? Eleven? And I have to make a decision because the person I least want to see win is the incumbent ( Read more... )

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[Sorry if you saw the earlier version of this I deleted; I was editing it so heavily that I decided I'd better just start over.]

I finished Rebecca Traister's Big Girls Don't Cry today, and although I enjoyed the heck out of it, I feel like I don't have much more to say about the events it covers that I didn't already say back when the 2008 ( Read more... )

Currently in the process of devouring Rebecca Traister's new book, Big Girls Don't Cry, a feminist take on the 2008 presidential election. Those of you who read my journal back in those days will know that this is an issue I felt rather strongly about, and Traister, a writer on politics and culture for Salon.com, was one of the bloggers whose ( Read more... )

The outcome of the election in Maine is proof positive that we should not be making decisions regarding people's civil rights at the ballot box.

Take it away, Melissa McEwan:

Historically, we have depended on the courts to make decisions about the application of constitutional guarantees in spite of popular opinion, and they have repeatedly ( Read more... )

Stayed home sick from work today. Perhaps that's why I didn't remember until after noon that today was Election Day. I considered dragging myself off the couch and away from my Gilmore Girls DVDs to go vote on the half-dozen stupid local propositions on the ballot (nothing statewide for us this year, and all the city officials were running ( Read more... )

T and I were watching some of the videos generated by the latest Stephen Colbert remix challenge (now there is a man who knows how to harness the power of Web 2.0 to his advantage), and I mentioned that I think the ultimate speech-to-music remix is the Bill O'Reilly flip-out dance remix from a couple of years back. (Which, if you haven't seen it ( Read more... )

First, the Pew Global Attitudes survey which finds, among other things, a correlation between religiousness and wealth on a national level. The chart is about halfway down the page. None of this is too surprising, really, but I found it interesting to see it laid out graphically. Most notable outlier? Surprise, surprise: it's the United States ( Read more... )