Month: June 2005

Ten years ago tonight, I had my first date with my wife. Ten years later, I remember the evening vividly. The evening, while wonderful, was not without a hiccup or two… I started planning the day before; I had invited Robin to my apartment for dinner where I would cook. I lived in France for…

Too funny: David Weinberger discovers what reality-based really means. Heh. Update: Adding insult to inujury, David’s post shows up in my aggregator as being published six hours in the future: Anyone laying bets on how long before someone points out in his comments that he should get a Mac?

This is just getting out of hand. Please, Howard, I beg you: build the party, let the Republican party marginalize itself. You’re doing us no favors with these repeated insults of our fellow Americans. A wise philosopher once said (or was it Ice-T?) “don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” In other words, focus on…

John Edwards responds to the “flap” over his weekend critique of Dean’s comments regarding Republicans (which I talked about here). The key quotes: We are both talking about the Republicans and their failure to address the needs of working people. We both agree with this basic truth: This Republican president and this Republican majority are…

Seth Stevenson’s wrap-up of reader responses to his request for worst ad song ever used in a TV spot is priceless. There are too many great examples to list them all out, just drop by and enjoy the many examples he’s collected. Did he miss any?

Be sure to read Barack Obama’s keynote address at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on Saturday (link via Zorn via DJWinfo). What a speech. Zorn asks: “Remind me again why Democrats should be getting behind Hillary Clinton for president in 2008 instead of this guy?”

I’m thrilled to read that Sara Ramirez won a Tony award this evening for her performance in Spamalot. As I said when I saw Spamalot during its pre-Broadway run here in Chicago, she was (and presumably still is) the highlight of the show. She has a phenomenal future in front of her, but the Lady…

Interesting: Patrick Ruffini recently announced he has a 2008 Presidential Wire aggregator of sorts. It tracks a number of blogs and mainstream news sites, looking for mentions of likely presidential candidates in 2008. (I found it after seeing several clickthroughs from there to my post earlier today on partisanship. Apparently my mention of both Biden…

Not sure how I missed this nugget from ArchPundit a couple weeks back, but I wanted to respond to Vasyl’s comments. Vasyl said: Well, reporters read blogs. So do opposition researchers. In an era of online access to a lot of information about candidates, a stray comment by a candidate or political party on a…

I got an e-mail the other day from a local Democrat, asking for my help in spreading the word about a movement to ask Rep. Judy Biggert to remove herself from the House ethics committee. Rep. Biggert is my representative (IL-13), and she’s a Republican. She serves on the Ethics committee (the same one that…