Author: Rick Klau

You know you’re slacking when your Dad gives you shit about not posting to your blog in a week. (And he wasn’t the only one. I got an e-mail from a close friend asking me what major life-changing event was going on — surely something was up since I hadn’t posted to my blog?!) Hard…

There’s knowing who you are and there’s knowing who you are. As Governor Dean showed up at the rally tonight, the throng immediately surrounded him. The energy was palpable. Standing just behind the scrum was campaign manager Joe Trippi. I stepped back – “Joe — I’m the guy who’s been helping Mathew with the blog.”…

Photos are coming soon, but here’s a quick report: We had 150 people there (probably more) to show our support for Governor Dean. We had more people than any other candidate, and got quite a bit of positive feedback from union delegates arriving on buses outside Navy Pier. Governor Dean showed up and spent 10…

By my count, Governor Dean’s $100,000 ad buy in Texas has now enjoyed its third nationwide run (on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Monday’s Larry King Live, Tuesday’s Today Show). Seems like money well spent, no?

Larry King: “Will you run to the center as the election gets closer?” Howard Dean: “Larry, I am in the center.” Dean is being interviewed by Larry King right now. Aaron Brown’s Newsnight at 10pm covers the “Dean Machine”. Do weeks start any better than this?!

This probably shouldn’t make me laugh, but it does: One of the comedies of the 2004 campaign is watching all the candidates other than Dean claim to be angry when they clearly aren’t. … If you got into a fender bender with Dean, and he got out of his car and started walking toward you,…

While the other candidates are defining themselves by their opponents within the party (“I’m more electable than Howard Dean” “I’m stronger on defense than Gephardt” “I can raise more money than Lieberman” “I’m the only Democrat who fought in Viet Nam”), Governor Dean has made clear that his opposition isn’t his fellow Democrats: it’s President…

Talk about arriving: both Time and Newsweek have cover stories on the Dean campaign, and US News & World Report has the campaign on the cover as well. As noted at the official blog, this kind of attention — five months before the first caucus — is unprecedented.

From CalPundit (who saw it on Unfogged), we get the Smoking Gun Legal Document of the Year. Yes — even though there are five months in the year remaining, Smoking Gun has declared a winner. And it’s a doozie — defending the use of the word “fuck” in a school. Regardless of the merits of…

Last month I wrote about a book by a very close friend. Learning that a friend attempted suicide is hard enough; reading about the ordeal and realizing how little you actually knew about this person is terrifying. Ben is an amazing person — not because of his suicide attempt or his survival, but because of…