I called Tom Delay
According to the first person I spoke to, DailyKos is a terrible liberal site (I knew that) and someone posted here once saying it was OK to behead hostages because they were mercenaries (I didn't know...
View ArticlePresidential elections and the World Series
Hypothesis: When a candidate for President or Vice-President is from the same state as a team in the World series, their performances are correlated. I don't remember enough statistics to give this a...
View ArticleF*ck the South
Lincoln was a Republican, and thus he got it wrong. He should have let the South secede. They'd be an eastern Mexico. Miami would be like Cancun, but with hurricanes. I drew a new flag. Removed from...
View ArticleMy Senate letters
To Mark Dayton: Please do not condone torture by voting to confirm Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General. I understand that the President is traditionally accorded substantial leeway in selecting his...
View ArticleWhat should I do with $603?
I have a very good job, and make more than the limit for social security contributions. Judiciously studying my W2 leads me to believe that if there were no cap on social security taxes, I would have...
View ArticleRedState.org and the DailyKos DNS hijack
I love Google Mail, a.k.a. GMail. I was reading an email thread between me and a friend about a website I'd just set up, and up pops a link to this thread over at RedState.org. Now this website is...
View ArticleAmerican Family Association are traitors!
So the AFA are calling for a travel boycott of Australia because of a couple of mild swear words in a tourist ad. They appear to have forgotten that Australia has the 3rd largest military force in Iraq...
View ArticleSenator Dayton on censure
I got an email back from Mark Dayton, soon-to-be former senator from Minnesota. He's against censure. As far as I can tell, his position because presidents break the law more often than Congress...
View ArticleMN-03: Is Wilde in?
I don't live in Minnesota any more, but I still try and keep abreast of what's going on there. When I last checked, Jim Ramstad, Republican incumbent since 1990, had no opponent. I can understand why...
View ArticleThe Tsunami Watch - a New Zealand Perspective
Fortunately, there turned out not to be a tsunami as a result of the Tonga earthquake (alright, a little one in Niue and Pago Pago). But there was a tsunami warning, and I bet you're dying to know what...
View ArticleIs an 18 point swing enough?
I was feeling confident about Francine Busby's "near victory" in the CA-50 special election. After all, if the NRCC wants to spend five million dollars in every congressional district to get an 18%...
View ArticleMy LTE was published (online)
My short little LTE got published on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune website: http://www.startribune.com/... Scroll down to the antepenultimate letter, or read it below the fold. The title was added by...
View ArticleGOP candidate for Oklahoma Superintendent of Education shoots textbooks
Bill Crozier is running for State Superintendent of Education in Oklahoma. He apparently gave a local TV station a video of himself shooting textbooks to prove they could be used as shields in the...
View ArticleMinnesota Election law help needed
Can you vote in person after you have cast an absentee ballot? My wife has already voted by absentee ballot. Since we live overseas, Minnesota election law only lets her vote for federal races. In our...
View ArticleSay goodnight, Gracie
Jon Tester and Jim Webb have won their respective races, dropping the curtain on the acts of Burns and Allen. Not my original joke, I'm afraid. Credit goes to usenetter Greg G. in this post....
View ArticleNZ climate change efforts applauded by Al Gore
We're a bit schizophrenic on climate change over here. We project this image of clean, green New Zealand, yet we have the fourth highest ecological footprint per capita in the world. Al Gore says Helen...
View ArticleTerror! Terror! Terror!
16 pipe bombs discovered in garage, US military bases probable target!!!11!!ONE!! ABC only seems to have this bounty hunter's word for it, so apply appropriate skepticism. Plus, the putative terrorist...
View ArticleNew Zealand being sucked into Iraq?
Just how unpopular is the US-led occupation of Iraq in countries that don't get Fox News? The news broke here yesterday that Air New Zealand flew 2 charter flights that took Australian troops to Iraq....
View Article"Objectively pro-Ahmedijenad"
Update: as pointed out by EnderRS below, this all makes a lot more sense once you realize that I can't spell Ahmadinejad. I'm sure we all remember, back in 2002 and 2003, if you opposed the idea of...
View ArticleUS Immigration and the Mickey Tax
Atrios says: Yes this is a horrible idea. Perhaps just make customs and immigration a bit more pleasant instead? As a US Citizen, Duncan gets to see the best parts of US Customs and Immigration. I'm...
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