Category: Edgewise

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…