Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Well, that was different, as far as elections go.
I’ve been holding off on my commentary since Monday’s poll for a couple of reasons. The main one was that the election was so insanely close in some ridings that recounts were necessary; the other reason is that I wanted to see how the various parties and […]

Many in the media are trying to position the upcoming documentary film
America’s Heart and Soul as a counterweight to Fahrenheit 9/11.
I had written a couple paragraphs on how ridiculous this position
is before finding out that the same public-relations firm trying to get F9/11 banned
is promoting AH&S as an antidote to F9/11
and that Disney invited the […]

The handover of Iraq was completed two days early, but at the pace us slackers are going, we might not notice until June 30th. ;) So, I’ll throw some quick thoughts up.
First, on the execution. It’s a brilliant maneuver to screw up any plans the terrorists might have, but part of me doesn’t like […]

1) Tomorrow at about this time I expect to be celebrating the successful orbital insertion of the Cassini-Huygens mission into Saturn orbit. So far everything seems to be going well with the probe, and the pictures takes so far have been incredible.
2) Industry and public interest is slowly but surely growing for the concept of […]

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States did what courts are supposed to do: it reaffirmed the rule of law and took an incremental, solidly supported step toward the greater goal of equal justice for all. One headline making the rounds claims that the decisions handed down today supported President Bush’s claims that […]

First of all, and all the comment spammers that read this blog regularly might want to note this, I’ve closed off all comments threads before the end of March. And every couple of weeks, I’m going to come through and close out comment threads so that we’re maintaining a 90 to 120 day rolling […]

As most of the regular blog readers know, I’m a recent graduate of the School of Information Management & Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. And with the shiny new master’s degree I earned last month comes some interest in information technology.
This was brought home when I found and was reading a […]

Well, it looks like the Greens, thankfully, did not nominate Ralph Nader. They instead nominated David Cobb, a California lawyer. There was a huge split in the Green party over that.
While I’m thankful that Ralph Nader won’t have that platform to damage our chances of getting rid of Bush, I did find the […]

Don’t have much for you today, but this one is a Good News story in ways that we haven’t really seen in a long while.
Via Worldchanging we get this story from the New York Times about how employees of Afghanistan’s Central Bank managed to protect 20,600 pieces of Bactrian gold jewelery from the Taliban:
Armed […]

Welp, I’m back on the platform kick again. Today we’re going to be talking about the platform of the New Democratic Party. Said platform is available (in PDF form) here, or here for the HTML version. In terms of the text, both are essentially identical.
Of the platforms so far, on a basic “read this without […]