Month: August 2004

Looks like the Illinois GOP has narrowed it down to two choices to face Barack Obama: Alan Keyes or former Deputy Drug Cczar Dr. Andrea Grubb-Barthwell. They’ll announce tomorrow. So-Called Austin Mayor had a great suggestion, but it looks like the GOP will pass. Update: Josh Marshall has some thoughts on the two choices.

This is seriously cool: Visual Google News. (Link from Nate knows nada.) It’s a visual overlay to Google News. Probably won’t be around very long. But it’s a great example of how textual information can be presented visually.

If you missed last night’s Daily Show, try and catch the rerun. (Or look for it in a few days online.) Jon Stewart lit into Henry Bonilla (R-TX), who was on to talk about his experience as part of the Republican rapid response team last week in Boston. It’s a pretty dramatic take down, and…

Since Kos weighed in a couple weeks ago, and Cory just posted his review, I figured it was high time I get my own review together. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a terrific read. You’ll get through it in a day or two – because once you get into it, you want to…

Over the weekend, I did a soft launch of the new website for the Naperville Democrats, the local Democratic Party (of which I’m the current chair). The site is built using CivicSpace, the Drupal-based grassroots organizing tool that grew out of DeanSpace. (Regarding the Naperville Democrats site: look & feel still have a bit of…