Category: Edgewise

  • the golden grate

    Talk about diversity…here in the golden state we’ve managed to reach new heights of mixedness, all-over-the-mapness, and plain ol’ voter confusion as the results of the Caulifornia mid-term and governatorious elections illuminate the collective mind of the Left Coasters. We voted for a Republican Hollywood muscleman who lifted himself out of the political toilet by…

  • An appreciation, and some electoral arithmetic.

    Thanks and congratulations to our own Christian Crumlish and Cecil Vortex, who epitomized for us the heart and soul of the committed Long Haul. And thank you to Howard Dean, whose controversial decision to spend on party-building in all 50 states, not just limited battleground states, has been well vindicated by the competitive races and…

  • Congratulations, Jerry McNerney and staff!

    Victory is sweet. While other Democratic politicians in the state of California were making nice to Schwarzenegger, abandoning Angelides and risking the rest of the state ticket, an army of grassroots supporters, many of them veterans of the Dean insurgency, backed McNerney early and worked their hearts out to get him elected, upsetting the complacent…

  • Army recruiters tell students war in Iraq is over

    ABC News: Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist: But if they study hard they won’t get stuck in Iraq.

  • 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….

  • Great article on McNerney’s race to unseat Pombo in CA-11 from the UK Independent

    The coverage in this article makes the McNerney-Pombo race seem like a bellwether. To me, this is the money quote: >He has put family members on his congressional payroll at salaries so high that two years ago they outstripped the entire campaign budget of his Democratic Party challenger. And now he is pushing to build…