Category: long story short
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The recall
owie.
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Exit-polling myself
Because I don’t really trust the Diebold voting machine that assured me that my vote this morning had been counted but gave me no receipt and is – as far as I can tell – unaudited and vulnerable to tampering, I’ll put my votes on record here. I voted No on the recall. I’ve never…
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In which Bob Novak freaks me out
The people at NBC want to make you think. You can learn more about life from five minutes of Ed, for example, or Scrubs, than you can from, like, 15 minutes of ABC’s According to Jim. This is all the more especially true for NBC’s news shows. Take, for instance, Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press.”…
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Novak still being used
It appears from numerous reports that Novak is still working the “slime” angle of the “slime and defend” strategy designed to discredit Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, (as partisans, ironically), with his latest broadcast of the name of Plame’s former CIA front company. As a willing tool in some kind of war…
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Ranking redux
Christian suggested I share my top-ten ranking of the Democratic candidates…. It’s a rich field, with a whole generation’s worth of 50-60 year-olds taking their best shot. You could make the case that this is the most top-heavy collection we’ve seen from either party in three decades. There are five I like (Clark, Dean, Edwards,…
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Ranking candidates for Kos
Daily Kos invites us to rank the Democratic primary candidates. Here’s mine. Dean Clark Edwards Kerry Kucinich Braun Graham Gephardt Lieberman Sharpton Again, I’d support any of them against Bush. Let’s see if Dan would like to post his rankings.