Category: long story short

Wow, I don’t seem 39. When did I get so old? This also marks the sixth anniversary of my first blog post (except we didn’t call them blogs back them, you young whippersnappers – it was more like an online diary). I can’t really claim six straight years of blogging, though, because there were two…

OK, I’m being facetious. Bush’s blatant lies (or disingenuous parsing of words, for the lawyers out there) about the photo-op “Mission Accomplished” banner, examined in the DNC’s Kicking Ass weblog, don’t stand up to the least bit of scrutiny, but of course it’s more of an embarassment and a problem for his team being pushed…

I don’t want to turn Edgewise into an all-Diebold-all-the-time weblog, but it seems that if we don’t plug the most obvious risks to election integrity, then any other efforts to make change will be for nothing. Dan Gillmor reports that Newsweek is now covering the issue: Steven Levy (Newsweek): Black Box Voting Blues. The best…

Others have complained about the way the Bush administration makes them start wanting to put on a tinfoil hat and join the conspiracy theorists. We’re reasonable people and we resent having to seriously consider some of these scary tales of potential voter-fraud. It’s bad enough if it’s already happened, but why does it seem so…

Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Electrolite has been hammering away at the Diebold voting machines issue recently. This seems to be another one of those slowly unfolding stealth scandals (like the profiteering by Halliburton in Iraq) that hasn’t yet come up with a hook that will make ordinary people see the danger. Who will tell the…

Counterspin Central puts forward an interesting take on the Howard Dean as McGovern meme.