So, on the heels of a great convention, and fantastic acceptance speech by Kerry, the thought seized me to find out what Fox News was making of all this. So I went to foxnews.com, and found the first link right below the picture of Kerry and Edwards to be “Wising Up in Boston”, a ridiculous [...]
John Kerry made a great, great speech tonight. I was really impressed. He was hasrsher on Bush than I thought he would be, and that just got me all excited. Democrats have been apologetic and have rolled over for too long. Commentators on NPR were noting that it was Vietnam and the 1968 Democratic Convention [...]
What a great opinion piece by Bob Brown in The Australian, on Bush, on lies from government leaders, and the general state of world opinion (well, Australian opinion, anyway) of the United States.
This open letter to Bill O’Reilly is a wonderful indictment of Fox’s pitbull, this decade’s Man Least Likely To Utter A Word Of Truth. Great, great letter, and should be read by anyone who cares about the state of political discourse in this country.
Here’s a problem I have: “squishy centrist”. “Mushy centrist”. “Wimpy centrist”. Fuck that shit. The center is the place to be. It’s where I think most of America lives; that is, when it’s busy minding its own business and not messing around with wars or enabling corporate oligarchs to ride the middle class into the [...]
“My Beef With Big Media” is an article by Turner on the deleterious effects of corporate ownership of media, and everything in the media chain. When Ted Turner says this, folks should listen. And incidentally, $10 got me Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, which is an illuminating documentary on the state of American media, [...]
WP has some really nice features, and I’m liking it more and more already. I don’t know the bad stuff that’s inevitably in store for me sometime soon, but compared to MT3, this feels a lot more elegant in setup and maintenance.
Notice anything new? Yeah, I’ve switched from MT to WordPress. It seems to be pretty capable, certainly better than efforts like b2, and it has some advantages over MT, like the fact that I’m not in a state of perpetual pissed-offedness at it. Yet. Who knows? Anyway, it took me a while to get everything [...]
So I’m on the computer last night, with the kids across the hall in the tub taking a bath. I’m waiting for them to finish playing, to delete the huge amount of bubbles present, so that I can actually rinse them off without clouds of bubbles clinging to them. And I hear, repeatedly, this scene: [...]
Yeah, so registration is back on, comment-wise. Goddammit. I turned it off this morning, due to the problems folks have been having in getting their registration to stick, and other problems, but by 3pm, the blog, which has been 100% spam-free with registration, got three hundred spams for rape porn. Apparently blog-spam has gotten geometrically [...]
