Carson Daly has announced that he will be first late night talk show host to cross the picket lines (so to speak) and go into production despite the Writers’ Guild Strike.
Like I needed another reason to dislike the guy.
A bit of a footnote to the Australian parliamentary elections for those of us who are Gen Xers: former Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett has been named Minister for Heritage, Environment and Arts by newly installed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Garrett has been in the parliament since 2004, elected in the Division of Kingsford Smith in the [...]
The Phoenix Business Journal recently published an article about Phoenix-area leaders travelling to Ireland to find out about the the phenomenal growth in their technology sector there.
In response, a fellow named Tom Jenney from the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers wrote a letter saying that Ireland’s low corporate income tax is the real secret to their [...]
Barbara Lawall sent out a letter this weekend that served as sort of an announcement for her re-election campaign. What struck me was at the top of her list of accomplishments was a brag about the low rate of plea bargaining and her high trial rate.
This is one of those bits that makes for good [...]
Rudy Giuliani used a clever but not entirely accurate line against Fred Thompson, saying that Thompson played the role of Rudy Giuliani on television. This is the third or fourth time I have read about him saying this, and I feel I must use the platform of this blog to counter this Giuliani disinformation campaign.
The role [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all. Over the past couple of years, I have taken to posting a bit about the first Southwestern Thanksgiving. You can check it out here.
Even folks that are sympathetic with labor might find it hard to understand why seemingly pampered Hollywood writers would see the need to strike. I caught this off of the MySpace blog of Jenna Fischer, the actress who plays Pam Beasley on the American version of The Office. Yep, Jenna Fischer is my MySpace friend:
By now [...]
One of the posts that I’ve back burnered for a while was a rumor I had heard that Nogales Mayor Ignacio Barraza was planning a run against Raúl Grijalva. I thought the move would have been ill-advised, and I couldn’t even run down what party he planned to run in in this supposed campaign.
Well, today [...]
There is a guy in the Pentagon whose job it is to come up with butt-stupid policies that are destined to infuriate the masses of folks who want to do right by our young people in uniform. He’s probably a Rumsfeld holdover.
That is the only reason I can figure for this latest outrage.
The Defense Department [...]
Go Hillary!
Graffiti seen in Washington along the Red Line near the Fort Totten stop.
Washington, where even the taggers are establishment Democrats.
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