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.
I will be out for a few days as I will be travelling to Washington to see the New England Revolution decimate the Houston Dynamo’s vaunted flat back four.
But, fear not! Here are some leavings for you to chew on:
- Some of Hillary Clinton’s top staffers got into a bit of hot water this week […]
I’ve been scolded for not linking the Democratic Diva blog. I should have done this months ago. “Diva” is one of those over-used words and phrases that I would ban if I were given the power to do so (along with “my bad,” “excuse you” and anything ending with “izzil”), but it is a welcome entry in […]
Well, golly.
The good folks at Sonoran Alliance are attempting to call me out. Apparently, I had a “field day” over George Allen’s “macaca” comment last year. My crack research staff (actually, cracked-out research staff) went through the reams of entries from last year and found a total of one, that’s right one, entry that directly […]
I’d suggest that at Harry Mitchell’s re-election party next year, they serve toast. Why? Because that is what every Republican watcher said the guy would be after he beat J. D. Hayworth last year. Mitchell would be a one-term wonder along with Jim McNulty and Karan English and would end up doing those American Express ads that […]
The Barack Obama campaign had its Southern Arizona headquarters opening last week and hasn’t wasted any time. I’ve already been phone banked.
My phone number is not on my voter registration, so I can only conclude that they were calling folks on some sort of Democratic party list. The primary here is in early February (as […]
This is my dad, USAF, Ret., during his service in Viet-Nam. Thank you to him and all of our veterans.
I recieved an invite to a fundraiser for Russell Pearce that will be held on the 17th. For $100 you can go to dinner, or, for $200 you can go to a special reception:
Private Photo Hors D’Oeuvres Reception with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Bruce Jacobs of KFYI. This private reception includes […]
A brand new “grass roots” organization has hit the streets called Arizonans for Financial Reform. These community oriented Arizonans are demanding that the legislature get off its collective rear-end and reform the payday loan industry. From their website and their mailer:
For too long, the Arizona State Legislature has debated the issue of payday loans without […]
I’m retiring the “Election Aught Seven” section for obvious reasons. I will save putting up an “Election Aught Eight” section until it actually is “Aught Eight.”
Over at Blog for Arizona, Michael Bryan has posted the publicly released grand jury documents in the Maricopa County Attorney’s New Times fiasco. The idea here is to allow other bloggers (ie - me) and blog readers (ie - you) the chance to look through the documents and find interesting tidbits. This is called “Networked […]
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