Year: 2005

  • Sulu’s gay

    Although I was almost inappropriately delighted to learn today that Sulu is gay, I have to confess that I’m kind of irritated at the timing. I mean, yesterday Miers withdraws, then this morning, so-called “Scooter” Libby resigns. And now here comes George Takei, pushing those stories right off the front page.

  • In which I predict the future!

    Many years ago, before Seinfeld became a national Thing, I looked up one day and I said “I’m going to start watching Seinfeld.” And I didn’t just say this myself. I said it to other people too. For example, So-Called Bill. It didn’t make much sense at the time. And then that episode with the…

  • Blogging from Flock

    This is a test post from Flock. So far, so cool.

  • Watergate-esque

    You could make the case that Plamegate isn’t and won’t be Watergate, in that all the focus has been on the possibility that some of the President’s key people may go down, but you don’t really hear much speculation that the President himself could be dragged in. But then there’s this: when Nixon left office,…

  • But doesn’t she deserve an ‘up or down vote’?

    Conservatives Launch ‘Withdraw Miers’ Website Sauce for the goose?

  • Desperate times

    OK, so horrific earthquake in Kashmir. Delay, Miers, Libby, Rove, all that. Wilma’s kinda fierce. Deficit’s growing. Continued Katrina fallout. Inflation mebbe. Gas prices. You know what I’m talking about here, right? I’m talking about news. There’s lotsa news. Like, big stories. Everywhere. And what are the good folks over at Fox focused on? Well…

  • The inquiring enquirer asks

    When, exactly, did ‘nads become nards?

  • Absentee voting party (in Berkeley)

    from the East Bay for Democracy newsletter: ABSENTEE VOTING – MADE FUN What better reason for a get-together than voting our progressive values as a block? Join other East Bay for Democracy folks as we pot-luck, and de-luck Arnold Schwarzenegger’s radical agenda for California. When: Monday October 17, 2005 starting at 7:00PM Where: Redwood Gardens…

  • I've been tagged

    Reader Nicolai wrote a comment on the blog telling me that I’ve been tagged (by name) for the first time, adding “how’s that for digital identity?” His comment led me back to a review of this book (in Danish) on his blog. He kindly translated it into English for me: The power of many The…

  • Chris Nolan's 'Spot-On'

    I meant to blog about this as soon as I heard, but better late than never. Chris Nolan has rebranded and relaunched her journalistic group weblog (time to update those RSS feeds…). It’s now called Spot-On. The new design is polished and handles the ads much more gracefully. Chris Nolan is the site’s editor (and…

  • Go see Cecil next week!

    Next Tuesday night (October 18th), Cecil aka Dan aka Cecil will be reading various poems and poem-like shtick at C’era Una Volta, located in the heart of The Island City (aka Alameda). Says Dan^H^H^HCecil: They’re even being nice enough to provide free appetizers, for reasons I can’t quite figure out. So maybe I just dreamt…

  • If getting pregnant were like catching a cold

    If getting pregnant were like catching a cold, just something that people randomly came down with, I doubt the government would even think of coercing those who caught it to take the pregnancies to term–even though the Pro Life-Baby Killer considerations would be just the same. There is definitely a sexual anxiety at play here…

  • Be Prepared

    HANOI (Reuters) – The spread of Asia’s deadly bird flu to Europe is a “troubling sign” and the world must work faster to prepare for a potential flu pandemic, U.S. Health Secretary Mike Leavitt said on Friday. —————– I hear that Bush White House officials are assembling a team of top Public Relations experts from…

  • Special Election as fodder for theater

    John Warren from Unconditional Theatre invites us to hear stories about the upcoming special election: The Special Election is less than a month away. How much do you know about the ballot measures? Wondering whether it’s worth going to the polls at all? Unconditional Theatre is here to help! We’re hosting an evening of stories…

  • More on “Appearance of a Conflict of Interest”

    I am inspired by Dumpster’s post below, to make a general point about “The Appearance of a Conflict Interest.” I believe the meanings of the key terms here have become distorted and compromised in recent years. It may not affect this EPA ruling directly, but the Inspector General did contribute to the convenient confusion surrounding…

  • Flip your WHIG

    Over at Hullabaloo, Digby explains how the Plame investigation could conceivably unravel the conspiracy to build a false case for war in Iraq.

  • Appearance of Conflict of Interest

    That’s a concept we’re hearing a a lot about lately: Over the weekend the Comical ran a WaPo story reporting that the EPA’s Inspector General says there is no such thing as quid pro quo: The inspector general’s yearlong review of the EPA’s writing of a rule to manage shop towels contaminated with toxic chemicals…

  • The “Barbara Bush Principle”

    Papers Offer Peek at Miers’s Views Washington Post Miers, President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, said in her 1995 letter to Bush that the legislation was a blatant attempt to protect a “handful of greedy, but immensely rich and powerful” trial lawyers. ————————– DKo: The legislation in question protected the use of a lawyer’s…

  • I gada be me

    Chris Pirillo and his Lockergnome cohorts launch yet another social meta crawler-y tag search engine site. This one’s called gada.be. I first looked at it a week or so ago when Chris was showing it around in beta. I guess it’s still in beta. So was that alpha? Pre-launch stealth beta? Whatever. The main cleverness…

  • Verisign acquires the Weblogs.Com ping server

    Confusingly, the news about Verisign buying weblogs.com from Dave Winer hit the wires at about the same time as the news about AOL buying the WeblogsInc.com blog network (referred to in the Times simply as “Weblogs”) from Jason Calacanis. I hope this isn’t Bubble 2.0! Congratulations to Dave for finding a stable home for an…

  • In Honor of the Yom Kippur Fast

    This is from the weekly prophetical reading that is designated for Yom Kippur (Beginning this year on the evening of October 12.): Jeremiah 58 6 …this is the fast I desire: To unlock the fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every yoke.…