Author: cecil

  • The Future Now

    I love the headline up on msnbc.com right now: Doesn’t this look just like one of those fantasy headlines of some more perfect world? You know — the kind we daydream about while listening to Nancy Grace drone on about the latest unsolved horror…? This one could only be better if the headline made mention…

  • Republicanists

    If the Republicans (and, increasingly, the media) get to keep calling us the “Democrat Party” instead of the “Democratic Party,” because they think it subliminally emphasizes the word “rat,” can we start calling them “Republicanists”? As in “What my Republicanist colleague forgets to mention is…” It would make people think “pianist” every time they thought…

  • It’s Morning in America

    for reals.

  • 21st Century Lou

    Here’s a swank new version of Walk on the Wild Side, from Lou “Mr.” Reed, with updated lyrics for this modern world. Worth a listen….

  • East Bay Exhortation Sensation: Phone Banking for Moveon.Org

    This is an offical, authenticated exhortation to East Bay folks everywhere. Well, East Bay folks in the East Bay. Short version: The last two nights I went to the MoveOn office in Oakland. These folks have their act together. It’s fun, easy, and unintimidating. You can volunteer any day, any time o’ day between 9…

  • Chris Bowers’ Google Bomb

    Chris Bowers of MyDD.com has put together an excellent list of links to articles on various republican candidates. By having large #s of folks duplicate this list of links, the odds go up that when someone searches, for example, Pombo, their results will include this article. Never let it be said that I wouldn’t post…