Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Via BoingBoing, it seems that there is a downside to having a nerd for a significant other.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown was censured by Congress and had her remarks stricken from the Congressional Record for saying this:
I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d’etat. We need to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Over and over again after the election when you […]

Ever the cynical contrarian, the part of Kerry’s speech I zeroed in on was when Kerry promised his new and different plan for Iraq and then failed to present any new or different ideas other than to get foreign help for what Bush is already doing.
The truth is, there isn’t much difference between Kerry’s plan […]

This will seem a bit like rambling… I’m musing over the speech as I remember it. I had friends over during the speech, attempting to hold a Convention party, which meant I was trying to recruit volunteers and ask for contributions to the DNC while trying to listen to the speech on an engaged […]

I just have this much to say.
Damn, am I proud to be a Democrat at the moment.
The next three months are going to be the nastiest knock-down fight we have ever seen, but maybe in the end, it just might work out pretty well in the end.
My quick thoughts on what I […]

It was Will Rogers who once said “I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” And, for the longest time, he was right.
This time, he’s wrong. Amazingly, the Democrats are united, and they’re on message. They’re optimistic. Their (justified) anger is restrained.
And they’re giving some really amazing speeches.
The first night. […]

…but you’re only eligible to win if you can’t get it up.
Okay, to make a long story short, I’m a baseball fan. I’ve been a fan of the San Francisco Giants since I was in grade school, and when I was living in the Bay Area, I made a point of going to a […]

Medecins Sans Frontieres finds a frontier in Afghanistan, pulling out of the country after being targeted by terrorists. In case you’ve never heard of them, The Independent describes MSF as the “first in and last out of the world’s danger zones”. Also, an Australian report notes that MSF had been in Afghanistan for 24 years […]

Via walwyn at k5 diaries: In the spirit of the many parodies of
the US’s Ready.gov, the recent opening of Britain’s Preparing for Emergencies website has been followed by an alternative Preparing for Emergencies website.

Information is scarce on this and I only have the UFW’s side.
The UFW is calling for a boycott of Gallo wines if Gallo does not give UFW workers the same health care and other benefits given to non-union workers. UFW has a timeline of events showing anti-union activity by Gallo, including that Gallo promised […]