Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Some baboso decided to use a year old post on here to take a few potshots at local political consultant Andrew Meyers and his best girl, Lauren Harmon. I can’t exactly complain about someone pitching stones at folks when I do it all the time. Heck, it is a big part of the reason why […]

I didn’t post this weekend…recovering from Beckham hype…isn’t he so dreamy?
Over the last couple of weeks, I have had several conversations that started this way:
“Don’t use this on your blog, but…”
Don’t use this on your blog? What good does that do me?
I had one conversation like this months ago, so I kept my mouth shut. […]

I relent.
My friend Sisto Abeyta is running for President of the Young Democrats of America. He’s been unsubtly asking me “where is the love?” since, unlike many of his supporters, I haven’t put him in my MySpace “Top Friends.” Who is he suggesting I bump off for him? Lalo Guerrero? The Furious Truckstop Waitresses? Amy […]

I haven’t posted in a few days. Really, it’s because I’m all broken up about Mr. Wizard. Now, I’ll never know how to make an electromagnet with a potato, old pennies and a mayonaise jar.
Hmm. Maybe I’ll not post until the house leadership takes some action on the budget…

Jim Nintzel wrote me a nice note last week. He is a bit hurt that I haven’t included the Tucson Weekly’s blog in my blog roll. I have included Ernesto Portillo’s blog, but not the Weekly’s. I had no idea of the rivalries and sensitivities between the various members of KUAT’s Reporters’ Roundtable. I guess I […]

Somebody nominated me for the “Blogger’s Choice Awards.” I’m listed in the Political Blog category.
For some reason, the vote of the person who nominated me didn’t get counted. So, as of “press time” (do we bloggers ever have that?) I only have two votes: mine and the person I told about the nomination (thanks Amber!). […]

In the run up to the November election, this site would get more than 900 hits a day. After the election, that fell to six or seven hundred, with an exceptional day being around 800.
Yesterday? 1,174.
Maybe I should convince Renzi to stay a while, keep my count up.

I recieved a phone call from a high ranking friend who complained that she can’t read my blog on her Blackberry. Is there anyone out there that is able to read this on their Blackberry? I don’t know enough about how they work, should I suggest she just read the RSS feed?
I am running a plug-in […]

I will be in Prescott for a couple of days, so there will be light posting. I’m going to check in with “Buckey” O’Neill, but when he drinks he starts complaining about Nate Murphy and the 1894 campaign.
Some people just can’t let go.

I detest the “-gate” construction. You know, where reporters name a scandal by simply ending it with the word “gate” and think themselves clever. I find it lazy, and none too revealing about the nature of the scandal. It also tends to diminish the importance of the Watergate scandal when every second rate minor scandal […]

Roy Warden, a good and intimate friend of this blog, decided to post the same rather long notice as a “comment” for four different posts. I don’t like deleting posts (despite the accusations thrown my way, I’ve only done it once before to a non-”spam” post), so I deleted three of them, leaving the one which […]

Here’s some information that is useless based on the fact that I can now give it to you:
This site was down today. According to the folks at DreamHost, there was some trouble with the domain name server. I have to give the DreamHost credit: they responded to my report of the problem immediately, and took […]

This here humble corner of Blogistan has made a couple of new forays into the Main Stream Media. How’s that for a mixed metaphor?
First of all, an oddly edited version of my post on the Bee family made it into the Yellow Sheet. They spelled the URL right, so how can I complain?
Secondly, Political Insider […]

DreamHost, the folks that put up with this blog enough to have in on their server, had a planned power outage yesterday that wasn’t supposed to last long. Unfortunately, the outage revealed a whole raft of other problems so this blog was down most of the night.
I just know that some of you are going […]

Okay…I think I finally solved what I was refering to as the “flipping” problem, where this blog’s template would suddenly switch to the “default” template and y’all would see a blue and white screen.
After some back and forth with DreamHost’s tech support (who were very responsive, the Daily Star should give them a “flower”), I […]

It looks like the template is still switching over to the blue “default” template.  Thank you for the reports of this.  I’ll be writing to DreamHost to see what the heck else I can do to fix this.  I hope I won’t have to switch to a different template.

Some of you may have noticed that sometimes you log on to this blog, and there will be a blue screen. This isn’t supposed to happen.  Without being too technical, I set up one “template” and customized it, but for no apparent reason it will change to a generic “default” template. I don’t know exactly why […]

I added some things to the sidebar.  I changed the “Blogroll” to be more like my old sidebar blogroll with the flags. The new “Election Aught Seven” category is for candidates that I’m supporting in this upcoming election.  Under links, I limited who I listed to elected officials who actually are in my area, plus  […]

Further evidence that this humble blog is extending its tentacles and infesting all corners of our state’s mainstream media (as well as mixing metaphors whenever possible), the Tucson Weekly ran a short piece in its Skinny column about the changes here.
Last week, an issue of the insider Yellow Sheet also ran a bit quoting this blog about […]

Over the last few days of finalizing this blog’s new “do,” I have gotten advice from Eric Lybeck and Tony Cani.  Eric has been a friend since high school; Tony is a more recent friend that I know through political life. Eric has been very good about steering me to “plug-ins” that make this blog […]