January 6, 2009 – 7:11 pm
A snip from my home town news paper, the El Paso Times EL PASO – Mayor John Cook vetoed a unanimous vote by City Council that earlier Tuesday asked the federal governemnt to seriously study the idea of legalizing drugs in response to the violence that has plagued Juárez. In what is the third veto [...]
January 1, 2009 – 9:14 pm
Obama’s press reactions have been in the news a lot. I wish someone would do something about what happens to people in the public eye. I’ve heard the claim that if celebrities don’t want the exposure then they should get out of the business. This is bunk and always has been. Consider an actor who [...]
December 21, 2008 – 3:16 pm
The auto industry “bailout” is an odd thing. Canada is moving in kind. It seems to me that the money will last a few months, then issues will arise, the same as exist now. Blame’s not an issue. American’s were purchasing, rather financing, weird cars for years. I still have to struggle in the parking [...]
December 6, 2008 – 9:50 am
The economy is in a bad way. People are suffering and there’s lots of fear: Job losses are accelerating at a terrifying pace, with more than 1.25 million lost in the U.S. in the last three months, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report Friday. Unemployment jumped to 6.7 percent, the highest since 1993. [...]
November 9, 2008 – 5:07 pm
I’ve signed the Amman Message.
November 6, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Prior to the second debate between President-elect Barack Obama and John McCain, I sent a tweet to Obama saying “go get him. Don’t stand for cheap shots.” Now, I’m ashamed of that message. Coolness, measuredness, and calm, intellectual determination was the better way. These past eight years have whittled at my nerves. Professionalism derided, the [...]
October 30, 2008 – 6:13 pm
When Obama talks about rebuilding infrastructure, I get giddy. I hope this will be serious business and that others agree.
October 12, 2008 – 11:51 am
I keep hearing that the surge is working. It’s hard, but I have a trillion dollar argument against this. The battle is also economic, blasted to start against the Twin Towers. Everything is linked.
October 10, 2008 – 11:11 am
It was close, but I’m proud of this ruling for CT. With the ruling, Connecticut joins Massachusetts and California as the only states that allow same-sex couples to marry. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey have civil unions, while Maine, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have domestic partnership laws that allow same-sex couples to receive [...]
October 8, 2008 – 7:48 pm
A clever post from Geoff Manaugh at Worldchanging: In a related vein, it’s often said in the U.S. that certain politicians simply “don’t understand the West”: they’re so caught up in their big city, coastal ways that they just don’t get – they can’t even comprehend – how a rancher might react to something like [...]
As I write this big budget cuts are coming and will hit Connecticut Higher Ed pretty hard and, of course, everyone else. Indeed, slender funds will hurt much of my plans for the coming years on the subject of hyperdrama and hypertext literature. It’s been bugging me that nationally the country has yet to be [...]
When Obama gets into office I hope he scraps this kind of crazy idea. The Feds can confiscate “information”? While interesting, I find the basis for the reversal opinion garbled behind weird and complex analogies. The basic question holds: what constitutes reasonable search at the airport?
My heart goes out to David Roy and everyone touched by the loss. Again, we knew Alyssa Roy as a wonderful person even in our limited experience with her two summer’s back. I think about this when ever my 17 year old, my wife, and I head out. Here’s to the art of life.
In semantic and social web news, information control–how to get all those feeds into an “online” service and to manage even more, typically via the metaphor of the bookmark–continues as the rush. Twine may be the answer to all these troubles. Or maybe not. On the platform of the web, it seems to me that [...]
Lots of writing on the subject of William F. Buckley Jr. As you’d expect. My first encounter came with Firing Line with Buckley and then Kinsley as moderator later. Then we went to Crossfire and then to Asshead and Shitmouth. Talk show evolution.
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
