Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Well, here in The City By the Bay, we are working on banning smoking some more. The smell of smoke makes me grumpy, but as it happens I run into actual cigarette smoke maybe once or twice a month. I’d be much happier if we did something about the butts people leave about as they [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Can’t look away! I love The Wonkette, and a brilliant post today about Palin supporters is spot-on: just get them to talk is all you need to do to get them to trip over themselves. Of course, they help you find the real loons by self-identifying with T-shirts and so on. What I love about [...]
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Props to RR: he signed the UN Convention Against Torture. We had our differences, he and I. But on this particular subject, we are in perfect agreement. I looked around for a reference to his signing statement and part of it is unequivocal: The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Ralph Nader just went on national TV, on Fox, and asked whether Barack Obama would be (from memory here) “Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom to the corporate interests.” Wow, Ralph. That was perhaps the most ridiculous thing I have heard this election, just a little head of Gov. Palin reading “all” of the newspapers. It [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Well, I’ve got to give props to Senator McCain for a classy concession speech. It was refreshing after he fought a dirty, underhanded, over-wrought campaign of fear, distrust, division and on occasion, outright hatred. John McCain is a flawed and better man than all that. Flawed in that he let Steve Schmidt listen to Karl [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
There’s been a lot of talk abotu the “Bradley Effect“, a reference to Tom Bradley’s 1988 loss in the California gubernatorial race in spite of a substantial lead in various polls. My personal instinct is that Barack Obama — facing the double problem of darker skin and a “foreign” name, would need a 7% edge [...]
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Our friends at CKOI in Montréal have just pulled a most marvelous prank, convincing Sarah Palin that she is speaking with Nicholas Sarkozy on the phone. Initial reaction: well, anyone can get pranked. After a painful listen, several things are remarkable about this: she repeats her talking points to the President of France she calls [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Voting in the States — and particularly in California — means understanding a lot of issues well enough to give a thumbs up/down on them. The current crop of propositions in San Francisco is a little intimidating (and available after the jump). I am not writing about the propositions (4 and 8) that limit individual [...]
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As you many know, I’m a big fan of Frank Rich’s column. We’re on the same page politically and that makes his column easy for me to read. One of my favorite things about it is the links he sprinkles in to it. So as I was reading this morning, he mentioned that everyone’s favorite [...]
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Dear Ms Pelosi, It’s been almost two years since your historic rise to Speaker of the House. I have bad news for you: you suck at it. You rolled on the surge, on torture (sorry, “interrogation techniques”), on two budgets, on illegal eavesdropping (sorry, “warrantless wiretapping”). Yes, you presided over pardoning previous and documented illegal [...]
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