Archive for May, 2005
everything’s a press conference
California (pronounced with FIVE distinct syllables, natch) Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger highlights transportation issues in the state by helping workers fill a pothole during a photo-op in San Jose. The photo-op was announced at the last minute in an effort to skirt protesters, who have been dogging the governor’s every appearance in recent weeks. From sfgate.com:
The [...]
out on a limb crane
I just finished reading this short news story on CNN.com about a guy suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend. The guy fled Florida, ended up in Atlanta, and climbed up an 18-story construction crane to avoid authorities. He won’t negotiate, and he won’t come down.
Let’s look at what’s wrong with this story. Authorities in Atlanta have:
closed [...]
dunced
This is sad news: the film version of John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” has been cancelled (via Kevin, whose site I can’t visit until after I see Revenge of the Sith on Friday). I read the novel for the first time in 2000 and wrote about it here, have read it [...]
top 10 filibuster falsehoods
Media Matters cuts through the partisan bullshit to shine the spotlight on the top 10 filibuster falsehoods. The power play is on in the Senate, and today Priscilla Owen was indeed the first name brought forth. Falsehood #5 points out that current Republican US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales once said Owen tried “to create hurdles [...]
the coming attack on people of reason
With Monday’s news that there will be no compromise to avoid a showdown over the filibuster in the US Senate, it appears Senator Bill Frist and the Republican majority are prepared to pull the trigger on the nuclear option. Here’s how I see this playing out.
Soon, perhaps in days, the Republicans will re-nominate someone rejected [...]
ooh, ooh, that smell
Interesting article in the NYTimes: “For Gay Men, an Attraction to a Different Kind of Scent.” More scientific evidence that points to a genetic basis for homosexuality. Of course the fundies who live solely in a faith-based world will discount it as liberal hogwash — the Bible tells them so. No word yet from the [...]