Entries from November 2005

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Grijalva Speech

Rep. Raúl Grijalva will be giving a talk on the Iraq war Thursday night at the U of A. This notice has gone out on the College Republican ListServ, so we need to stack the room. The CRs do tend to bring down the average IQ.
A release from Grijalva’s office:

Rep. Grijalva to Discuss Iraq War [...]

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Sorry, You Are Just Not Welcome

I was saddened last week to learn about the sudden death of Albert Soto. Soto was heavily involved in the life of this community, doing things ranging from helping to found the nationally recognized Borderlands Theater to pressuring TUSD to actually spend its desegregation money on, um, desegregation. He appeared annually in the Tucson Pastorela [...]

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Obligatory and Overblown Self-Congratulation

Tucson Weekly reporter Jim Nintzel mentioned R-Cubed’s Jim Kolbe scoop on a special edition of Reporter’s Roundtable on last Wednesday’s Arizona Illustrated. I so rock.
Follow this link to see the video.
Of course, Jim mentioned my name, but not the URL. Hey, help a guy out, Jim.

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Eva Bacal

Well, the first candidate to take the plunge since the exit of Jim Kolbe has offered up her name. 2004 Democratic Nominee Eva Bacal is on the verge of announcing that she is running. Bacal was a long time member of the Tucson Unified School District Board (serving at roughly the same time [...]

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Dorothy Day’s Birthday

So, today’s topic is romanism and rebellion. Today is the birthday of Dorothy Day. If you don’t know who she is, I found a short description of her here, complete with more than a dozen links to more sites about her and her movement.
The greatest care should be taken to give a warm reception [...]

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Advent

Today is the beginning of the first week of Advent, when the Church begins its Christmas season. We have already seen in recent weeks many on the right accuse us on the left of somehow trying to destroy Christmas. Seems to me though, their friends in the corporate world have far more to [...]

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Housekeeping and Such

I recieved an e-mail from Gretchen Wagenseller, a Democratic Precinct Committeeperson from the Northwest Side. She asked that I add the Friends of Farley blog on my “progressive” blogroll.
I didn’t initially add Farley because I was supporting Nina Trasoff in the primary. Since that’s over now, I guess it’s okay to add him. Since [...]

Friday, November 25th, 2005

An Apology

The other day I refered to a Tucson Citizen article that implied that Sen. Gabrielle Giffords was planning to leave town before Jim Kolbe announced he was retiring.
As it turns out, the reporter for the Citizen was mistaken, and my refering to the article amplified the mistake.
Giffords called me a bit angry about my putting [...]

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Some Things to Consider

For some reason, I can’t sleep. I could say it is because of my excitement over the possiblility of a race in District 8, but that would make me a total goon. Plus, it isn’t actually true. I mean the excitement part. The goon part may be true.
I thought I’d write a bit about some [...]

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

A Whole Pack of ‘Em

It is fun being the guy that broke the story. They’ve got some anti-inflamatories so I can keep the swelling down.
Anyhow, some candidates have already emerged, such as they can given the resign to run law.
The Business Journal of Phoenix ran a story detailing who they think the candidates will be. Typical of Phoenix, [...]

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