What’s the Mission?
I was going to go to bed last night, when someone (@verso?) on Twitter brought up late night double feature picture shows. After that, there was nooooo stopping several of us from quoting the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I even posted a link to a few pictures of me when I used to be in [...]
I confess. I’ve been riding on the wrong side of the street for the past two days. AND on the sidewalk!
Why? Because Tri-Met is fixing something at NE 113th and Burnside, and they’ve got both the intersection and the crosswalks blocked off, so I can’t cross Burnside (where I would normally turn left). So, since [...]
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) begins on November 1! If you’re not familiar with this, participants are supposed to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. That’s it. I tried it last year, but ended up hating the novel I started, so I decided not to finish it.
This year, I’ve given no thought to [...]
Daddy Kaos posted recently about his experiences as a volunteer phone-caller for Barack Obama. Some of the people he calls are perfectly nice, but others call him things like “commie pinko.” Of that particular call, he says “it did hurt….not my person but my soul because this type of person can’t get past their petty [...]
I wrote yesterday that I was deeply troubled by several blog entries I’d read. These blog entries, by people who happen to oppose Barack Obama for president (although we do have other things in common), contain a number of mistakes and misconceptions about Obama’s tax policy. The authors are spreading a fear that Obama will [...]
I’m feeling a strong need to say something.
I’m deeply troubled by some of the political posts I’ve been reading. These posts are on blogs I subscribe to via RSS, because the normally non-political content interests me. I believe these posts are spreading incorrect information, but I’m also troubled by the level of anger and fear [...]
But maybe not in the way you think.
You see, I don’t think there are people out there just itching to vote multiple times to swing the election. And I think that if they are, they’ll have a hard time doing it. The systems and laws we have in place actually work. Salon’s Andrew Burmon recently [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, and the issue of the day is poverty.
As we coast through a period of economic crisis, this is an excellent issue to address. Many of the more affluent people around the world (including most Americans) are having to scale back their lifestyles; yet most of us don’t know true, third-world [...]
