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It recently came to my attention that someone who I’ve known for over 3 years is insisting that I’m working hard to undermine efforts to build a strong Democratic Party in DuPage County. This individual has repeated these claims at local meetings (of interest groups and township party meetings), as well as on e-mail mailing…

Just caught this 2 week-old quote from Mark Beese: Rick Klau once told me that blogs are an online, two-way conversation about ideas. I am surprised, and very pleased, to discover this to be true. Mark, I’ll assume your surprise isn’t because it was me saying it. 😉 Mark was writing about the conversation that…

For those who care about such things, I migrated this blog from Movable Type to WordPress. Why the switch? For starters, my MT install was starting to accumulate quite a bit of cruft, and it was taking increasingly long to post to the blog. Furthermore, attempts to weed out comment spam were blocking legitimate commenters,…

Thanks to Brad’s glowing review of Barry Eisler, I picked up Rain Fall yesterday and am already engrossed. Eisler’s got an easy style, and speaks with authority on everything from locale (that Eisler lived in Japan for several years is obvious) to tactics (turns out Eisler was a covert operative for the CIA for 4…

This is old news, but I caught it on ESPN last night and it’s worth sharing. Dennis Thomson was a die-hard Red Sox fan, a teenager who was at the 2003 divisional championship when Trot Nixon hit his home run to deep center. Dennis and a bunch of friends were in the stands, and one…

I’ll have more details shortly, but if you’re interested in seeing Paul Curreri perform in my family room on June 16 (a Friday), let me know asap. We’re going to limit the number of attendees, so the earlier you reserve a spot, the better. Tickets won’t be too much (though I’ll encourage you to give…

The president who has railed against leaks almost since the day he took office, we now learn, was the one behind the Plame leaks. That the party of limited government has produced a President with seemingly limitless powers should worry everyone regardless of political affiliation. We are a country founded on the simple premise that…

Over drinks last night, I made this prediction: the Democrat who wins the nomination for the 2008 presidential election will be the Democrat who vilifies MoveOn.org. (No extra credit for throwing Michael Moore under the bus, that’s too easy a target.) I think that a Democrat who pulls a Sister Souljah moment on MoveOn.org will…

Heather Armstrong: “Can you buy bullets with your $25 gift certificate at Wal-Mart? And if you can do you have any idea how awesome it is to be American?”

It’s been forever since I’ve done an overhaul of this site, and it’s starting to show its age. Things that need to get fixed/updated: Blogroll. I don’t want a laundry list of every site I’ve ever read, but there’s a core group of blogs and sites I read with regularity that I want to point…