Author: Rick Klau

Kos discovered another astroturf operation from the Bush campaign. Sure enough, the Naperville Sun (Correction: the letters ran in a sister publication, Fox Valley Villages) ran two of the form letters as letters to the editor last month (here and here.) In a nutshell, the Bush campaign: you can come hear us speak only if…

Not a moment too soon, Jay Allen has released an “emergency release” of MT Blacklist, the comment spam blocking plugin for Movable Type. Jay recently won the developer’s contest sponsored by Six Apart, and his victory was well-deserved. Unfortunately, a public release of his phenomenal tool wasn’t available until today for those of us who’d…

If you’re interested in learning more about Barack Obama’s background, you can pick up a copy of Dreams of My Father, his auto-biography he wrote ten years ago. It’s been out of print for a while (leading to a crazy couple of weeks on eBay, where copies could be bought for a few hundred bucks),…

Today’s Chicago Tribune has an interesting story on the front page of the Business section on Baker & McKenzie. Baker is the largest law firm in the world (by number of lawyers; Skadden and Clifford Chance both bring in more in revenues), and is based here in Chicago. The justification for chairman Christine Lagarde implementing…

I have vivid memories of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Chuck Mangione playing in the background, watching on my parents’ RCA TV and marveling at the sports I had never heard of. I remember watching people who were the best in the world at what they do compete against the underdogs who were…

This must be why the “we’ve turned the corner” language is no longer in the stump speech. From This is Rumor Control: “The rhetoric coming out of the Bush administration has convinced Iran that military conflict is inevitable and rather than await an attack at a time and place of America’s choosing, the Iranians will…

This is too funny: The billboard is in Atlanta, Georgia. (Link courtesy of It’s Life’s Illusions I Recall.)

Governor McGreevey (D-NJ) resigned this afternoon after a former male aide apparently tried to extort money from McGreevey in return for not revealing their affair. McGreevey’s resignation is online through the CBS affiliate in New York.

Today’s Daily Herald includes a little info on the person behind the Keyes napkin sweat auction on eBay, Jerry McGlothlin.

Anyone visiting this site in a browser may have seen that the ad for Tom Cross’s office changed over the weekend. What was a simple ad about how the GOP isn’t the devil (talk about a message!) is now something much more intriguing: a web-based documentary about Tom Cross’s efforts at winning back the Illinois…