Year: 2004

  • Barack Obama on Letterman Friday night

    Taped last night, airs Friday night. I hear Barack did quite well. TiVo owners: click here to schedule it on your TiVo. Interestingly, Barack was on Imus yesterday. And while I’m on the Barack update, So-Called Austin Mayor points out that in a survey of Boston voters, Barack recently came in tied for second in…

  • Caption contest

    OK, been a while since we did one of these. Please take a look at the following picture of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and leave your best caption in the comments: (I just know you can do better than the following “official” caption: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld looks around the room full…

  • Congresswoman Biggert on the DeLay rule

    Hey Josh — I called Congresswoman Biggert’s office (202-225-3515), and the person who answered the phone said it was a private vote, and would not reveal how Congresswoman Biggert voted. I’ve asked for a call back, will update if/when I hear anything. In the Illinois delegation, Denny Hastert was in favor of the rule change,…

  • Richard Irvin – Candidate for Aurora Mayor

    Had drinks tonight with Richard Irvin, a candidate for mayor of Aurora. Richard’s got quite the resume — soldier in the first Gulf War, former prosecutor, teacher, community leader, husband, father… oh yeah, he’s a Republican too. And African-American. We didn’t talk much on specifics regarding his politics, other than for me to ask how,…

  • Letters from Captain Kevin Kuwik

    I’m not a Notre Dame alum (Lafayette College is my alma mater), but one of the amazing things about N.D. is that they tend to accept all family members as part of the “family”. My younger brother is a 1996 graduate of N.D., and I am lucky to consider a number of his classmates friends…

  • The politicization of the CIA

    Jason points out that we’ve been here before. And no, it’s not pretty. If only those who were so worried about making the other side look bad were just half as concerned about making us look good. (And, for the subtlety-impaired, by us I mean Americans.) sigh

  • 200,000 served

    Allow me a bit of self-indulgence… in looking at my stats tonight I saw that sometime in the past 2 hours, the 200,000th person to visit this weblog stopped by. Now, for someone like Kos, that’s a decent day of traffic, and I’ve been at this for just under three years. But for my little…

  • Dave Tamkin in Naperville on Friday

    Robin and I are going to see Dave Tamkin perform at Frankies Blue Room Friday night. I haven’t heard Dave’s music before, but after reading about him on his website and listening to a few songs at Fresh Tracks, there’s no doubt I’ll enjoy the performance. Why am I so sure? The guy lists Toad…

  • Jefferson Jackson Dinner – one year ago today

    Sigh… one year ago today. Easily among the highlights of my 18 months volunteering on the Dean campaign.

  • Desktop search – give blinkx a try

    Over the weekend I completed a long-overdue column for LPM, the ABA magazine I write for. I set out to write about my love affair with Google Desktop, and ended up recommending Google Desktop but raving about blinkx. Before I get to blinkx, a tip for Google Desktop users: create a folder in Outlook, call…