Archive for December, 2006
Bruno and the Professor both encounter the median voter during our holiday travels. Then, we look back on the short but important presidency of Gerald Ford. And finally: the excecution of Saddam Hussein and the future of Iraq.
Governor Gregoire’s 2007 budget includes a pilot program on public financing of judicial elections. This is an idea that I brought up back in September. Conservative groups that have tried to influence past elections are, predictably, opposed. Just to be clear: I still think judicial elections are fundamentally different from legislative or executive elections, and [...]
Here you questioned the financial viability of YouTube. Meanwhile . . .
What’s up with the Right-wing attack that says Democratic politicians are hypocrites just because they’re rich? Whom do they expect to advocate for the poor? The poor themselves? Fox News anchors, in particular love this one. So stupid.
Shh . . . Don’t Tell Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Who Is Also Reponsible For Punk Rock
Posted by Contrarian on December 29th, 2006
The global conspiracy expands to include punk rock: Take a fistful of New York attitude, more than a dash of kvetching, irony, humor and sarcasm; throw in the memory of the Holocaust and aspiring to assimilate; blend with lefty politics and social justice; stir up youthful disaffection, outsider status and rejection of your parents’ and [...]
Somewhere in the nexus between voter referenda, free market principles, urban growth formulas and plain-old finger wagging emerges a new American Western philosophy. See, for example, this article in the Phoenix New Times about building the city’s new light rail line: You, the customer, carry most of the responsibility for preserving the businesses you like [...]
Hotline lets us know that 2006 census data could presage the reapportionment of House seats in 2010: According to an analysis by Polidata, a political data consulting firm, seven states are all but certain to lose at least one seat: Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Another six states are all but [...]
Although You Could Perhaps Say That My Greatest Weakness Is My Job Experience, I Am A Very Quick Learner!
Posted by Contrarian on December 26th, 2006
The only thing better than burying bad news before the Christmas break is the time-honored tradition of resigning to spend more time with your family, alive and well in all corners of this great nation: Less than three months into her three-year term as a Houston City Council member, Betty Vehrs resigned this week to [...]
We made the bold decision this year to celebrate a bi-costal Christmas — New York and California. To minimize the risk of airport delays, we made the strategic decision to fly through Dallas, and not Chicago. Smart, right? Sure seemed like it. So now we’re in Dallas. The plane’s here and fueled. The pilots are [...]
Shh . . . Don’t Tell Mahmoud Ahmadinejad What Boots Carrol’s Next Role Will Be
Posted by Contrarian on December 22nd, 2006
From the Birmingham News — actors are doing research for a revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” . . . in Alabama: The cast of “Fiddler on the Roof” got a Hanukkah present of sorts on Saturday — a crash course in Judaism and Yiddish before a rehearsal for Birmingham’s upcoming presentation of the play. [...]
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